FR - Tech Lead Coremedia

Description

The company is an experience innovation company and a trusted partner to some of the world's best-known brands.

The environment is built for continuous learning, real impact and professional growth, and your work can help change how industries operate.

The company values sharing, caring and daring, backs a creative and diverse culture with autonomy, and works across borders through one global framework.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead and main technical contact for the CoreMedia squad, working with client architects, product owners and stakeholders.
• Join a strategic digital commerce programme for a luxury brand in the LVMH Group, where technology, architecture, e-commerce and digital experience meet.
• Shape the technical direction of the CoreMedia platform and help deliver complex digital projects.
• Serve as the technical reference for the development team, shaping robust and scalable solutions while helping senior and experienced developers grow.
• Define and own the architecture and design of CoreMedia Content Cloud solutions (Studio, CAE, Headless Server, Content Delivery APIs), covering scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Stay hands-on with the hardest work: custom content types, Studio extensions, Blueprint customisation, templates and Spring-based back-end components.
• Lead code reviews and hold the team to engineering standards, test automation, quality gates and technical documentation.
• Design and secure integrations between CoreMedia and the wider ecosystem through APIs: e-commerce platform, PIM, DAM, search, personalisation, CDN and third-party services.
• Turn business and functional requirements into technical solutions and stories, and contribute to estimation, backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Drive CI/CD, environments and deployments on containers and cloud, and own release readiness, production support, incident analysis and performance tuning.
• Manage technical debt, CoreMedia upgrades and Blueprint evolution, and spot technical risks and dependencies early.
• Coach and mentor developers, share knowledge, onboard new members and build technical autonomy and continuous improvement.
• Work in an Agile Scrum or SAFe setup: join ceremonies and, in SAFe, PI Planning and the identification of technical dependencies across teams.
• Report clearly on technical progress, risks and quality using Jira and Confluence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Java/JEE development, including 3+ years on CoreMedia (Content Cloud / CMS, Studio, CAE, Headless Server, Blueprint).
• Deep skills in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, Maven, Freemarker/JSP templating and JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Solid record designing REST and GraphQL APIs and headless or hybrid CMS architectures.
• Proven experience as Tech Lead or Lead Developer, covering technical decisions, architecture, code review and mentoring.
• Experience connecting a CMS with e-commerce platforms, PIM, DAM and search in a complex enterprise landscape.
• Good working knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes and one cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Good grasp of performance, caching, security, SEO and accessibility for large-scale web platforms.
• Experience in Agile settings (Scrum, SAFe) using Jira and Confluence.
• Strong communication skills for working with technical teams, business stakeholders and clients, both onsite and across distributed setups.
• Fluent English (C2).
• Experience with luxury, retail or large multi-brand, multi-site, multi-language digital platforms.
• CoreMedia certification, or experience with major CoreMedia upgrades and migrations.
• Knowledge of e-commerce platforms or marketplaces, such as SAP Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud or commercetools.
• Front-end or headless experience with React, Next.js or Node.js.
• Experience with observability and performance testing tools, such as Grafana, Datadog or JMeter.
• Experience in large-scale Agile organisations and SAFe ceremonies such as PI Planning.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Miro or similar.
• French is a strong asset; working proficiency is appreciated.
• Consulting experience and a strong continuous improvement mindset.
• Agile and consulting experience is a plus.
• You are a curious problem solver who challenges the status quo, a collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing, and interested in where technology, creativity and data meet.

Conditions

Based in Portugal, Germany or France.

Onsite with the client in Paris La Défense for at least three consecutive days every month.

Offered as a permanent or freelance position based in Germany.

Candidates are judged on skills, experience and potential, and no age, gender, marital status or photo is needed; flag any interview accommodations to your talent partner.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package.
• Remote and hybrid work options, depending on country.
• International mobility and professional development programmes.
• Access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts.
• Benefits vary by location, and your talent partner will share full details during hiring.