Lead Optimizely Solutions Architect

Description

The company builds digital experiences that help major brands reach their customers through content, commerce, experimentation, data and AI.

The team is growing its Optimizely practice in Canada and is hiring a lead solutions architect to design and deliver enterprise digital experience platforms, direct technical teams, and advise clients on large digital transformation work.

The role blends architecture, consulting, technical leadership, AI work, and people management. You would help shape client roadmaps, contribute to sales efforts, mentor engineers and architects, and make sure solutions scale, stay secure, and support business goals.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise Optimizely solutions that fit business goals, technical needs and accepted industry practice.
• Plan scalable architectures spanning content management, integrations, personalization, analytics and digital experience platforms.
• Guide several concurrent projects and help teams work through hard implementation problems.
• Write architecture documents, technical specifications and presentations for executives.
• Run technical discovery, feasibility studies and risk identification.
• Support engineers with proofs of concept, complex builds and key technical decisions.
• Set and promote standards for content modeling, headless delivery, security, performance and maintainability.
• Design integrations across CRM, commerce, CDP, PIM, DAM, analytics and identity systems.
• Define data collection, event tracking and analytics approaches that support personalization, experimentation and business insight.
• Design and deliver AI-enabled experiences and workflows using Optimizely Opal, LLM services and newer AI tools.
• Set governance rules and guardrails for AI use, covering privacy, compliance, content quality and human review.
• Promote AI-assisted software delivery, including code generation, test automation and developer productivity tools.
• Help clients find practical AI use cases with measurable value in content, marketing and experimentation.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to enterprise clients.
• Shape technology roadmaps and recommend how platforms should evolve and modernize.
• Advise on wider MarTech and enterprise ecosystems so Optimizely connects well with existing systems.
• Work with product managers, business analysts, delivery leads and creative teams to increase business impact.
• Explain architecture decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Keep up with the Optimizely product line, including CMS, Graph, Experimentation, CMP, Commerce and Opal.
• Take part in business development, solution shaping, client workshops and proposal writing.
• Lead top-down and bottom-up estimates for new opportunities.
• Assess emerging technologies and suggest improvements to the company's offerings, accelerators and delivery standards.
• Mentor architects and developers and help set the practice's direction.
• Manage a small team, supporting performance, career growth and professional development.

Requirements

• 10+ years in enterprise web development, with at least 5 years in a solution architect, technical architect or similar lead role.
• Deep Optimizely CMS experience (CMS 12 and/or SaaS CMS), including several enterprise projects as lead architect.
• Strong.NET skills, including C#, ASP.NET Core, MVC and Optimizely APIs.
• Experience building headless and hybrid architectures with Optimizely Graph and/or the Content Delivery API.
• Front-end integration experience with React, Next.js or similar frameworks.
• Solid grasp of content modeling, personalization, multisite and multilingual builds.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms such as CRM, commerce, CDP, PIM, DAM, search and identity providers.
• Experience designing analytics and data solutions using tools such as Optimizely Data Platform, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Snowflake or BigQuery.
• Proven record of putting AI features into production, including LLM integrations, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Experience with Optimizely DXP, Azure cloud services, CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Experience with estimation, solution shaping and pre-sales work.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing engineering or architecture teams.
• Experience with Optimizely Commerce, CMP, Web Experimentation, Feature Experimentation or Opal.
• Experience with composable and MACH-inspired architectures.
• Exposure to other headless CMS platforms such as Contentful or Contentstack.
• Experience with agent frameworks, vector databases or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Optimizely certifications in CMS, SaaS CMS, Commerce, Experimentation or AI products.
• Cloud architecture certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or TOGAF.
• AI certifications such as Azure AI Engineer Associate, AWS Machine Learning Engineer, Claude Architect certifications, or Google Generative AI credentials.
• Certifications listed: Google Professional Cloud Architect; Google Gemini Enterprise Partner - Deployment; Gemini Enterprise Partner - Agent Development; Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Anthropic Claude Certified Developer - Foundations; Anthropic Claude Certified Architect - Foundations; Anthropic Claude Certified Architect - Professional; Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional; Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional; Claude Certified Associate Foundations; Google Cloud Generative AI Leader; Google Cloud Digital Leader.

Conditions

Full-time position based in Canada.

Salary range is $110,000 to $160,000 CAD per year, depending on experience and location.

Benefits start after three months of continuous service.

The company closes over the winter holidays and offers flexible scheduling year-round, provided weekly hours are met.

The company is committed to inclusion and accessibility and will arrange reasonable accommodations in the interview process on request.

The company reviews all candidates on skills, experience and potential, and does not ask for age, gender, marital status or a photo.

Benefits

• Insurance plan with a choice of Gold, Silver or Bronze coverage; the company may pay up to 80% of the premium depending on the option, including short- and long-term disability cover.
• Virtual healthcare through Sun Life for emergencies, prescription renewals and more, plus the Employee and Family Assistance Program and a full mental health support program.
• $500 personal spending account for healthcare costs, gym memberships, transit passes, office supplies or RRSP contributions through the company.
• Retirement plan: the company matches 100% of RRSP contributions up to 4% through a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP). You can contribute to your RRSP from day one and to the DPSP after three months. DPSP vesting takes 24 months of service.
• Flexible vacation under company policy, with 5 days available during probation and a prorated amount for the rest of the year.
• $30 per month technology reimbursement for every employee, available from day one.