EU remote
Technical Lead with Contentful
About this role
Who We Are WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets.
WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience. Contentful Technical Lead wanted to join a high-profile digital experience project for a major global brand.
The opportunity This is a high-impact technical leadership role combining ownership of enterprise platform delivery, client-facing discovery and technical workshops with strong architectural influence and a balance between technical leadership and hands-on engineering. You will help shape a modern, composable platform built around Contentful, React and an AWS-based integration and service layer , working closely with architects, engineers and client stakeholders.
The project's technical landscape includes Contentful, AWS infrastructure, APIs and identity/profile services A key part of the role is understanding Contentful as part of a wider technology ecosystem . You will make pragmatic technical decisions about what should be handled by Contentful out of the box, what belongs in the frontend or AWS middle layer, and how integrations with existing services should be designed. The initial phase will focus heavily on technical discovery , turning requirements, existing architecture and integration constraints into clear technical decisions and an actionable implementation backlog.
What you’ll get to do Lead technical discovery , facilitating client-facing workshops and translating business requirements into technical decisions. Shape the overall implementation approach across Contentful, React, AWS services and enterprise systems . Define clear boundaries between CMS capabilities, frontend functionality, integration/middleware services and backend business logic . Decide where integrations should be implemented and define appropriate API and integration patterns .