Web Engineer Lead

### Responsibilities - Driving modernization toward a scalable website architecture across a multi-domain estate, including marketing sites, product hubs, support portals, developer portals, and regional sites. - Consolidating fragmented properties while advancing modernization toward a scalable, CDN-delivered, cloud-hosted stack on AWS and Azure. - Implementing multi-site and multi-tenant patterns, Core Web Vitals optimization, performance engineering, URL and routing strategies, and creating an accessible, WCAG-compliant, localized experience for global audiences. - Establishing an advanced performance reporting layer using Core Web Vitals dashboards and synthetic monitoring tools like Lighthouse CI, SpeedCurve, Calibre, and New Relic. - Incorporating Amplitude for product analytics, funnel reporting, site-health SLOs, and regression alerting. Tying web technical performance and uptime to revenue metrics. - Championing observability and reliability engineering by enhancing monitoring, creating alerts, establishing SLAs/SLOs, and designing CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployments on AWS and Azure. - Bringing extensive expertise in Optimizely (CMS 12, SaaS, DXP) and WordPress, including backend work in .NET, C#, PHP, CDN configuration, caching, APIs, and content modeling. - Managing CMS architecture and migrations comprehensively, creating self-serve backends enabling teams to build pages on governed frameworks. - Leading enterprise CMS transformation initiatives by applying expertise in executing large-scale CMS migrations, platform consolidations, and re-architecture programs. - Owning the technical framework for SEO and AI-search readiness across SSR/SSG, schema, structured data, canonicals, hreflang, sitemaps, and Core Web Vitals. - Driving AI-powered efficiency in engineering and operations by utilizing GitHub, Cursor, AI-assisted CI/CD, and intelligent debugging. - Leading technical delivery and project management alongside engineering teams and stakeholders, managing roadmap execution, sprint planning, and capacity planning. ### Requirements - 12+ years of hands-on web engineering experience with technical leadership on complex, high-traffic, multi-domain web properties. - Deep expertise with Optimizely (CMS 12 / SaaS / DXP) and WordPress, including backend work in .NET/C# and PHP. - Advanced frontend engineering expertise with React, Vue, or similar, ensuring responsive and accessible UI development. - Command of CDN architecture and cloud hosting on AWS and Azure, with proven experience leading multiple large-scale CMS migrations end-to-end. - Proficiency in managing Core Web Vitals and performance engineering with tools like Lighthouse CI, SpeedCurve, Calibre, New Relic, and Amplitude. - Technical SEO and AEO expertise—SSR/SSG, schema, structured data, canonicals, hreflang, sitemaps—to achieve measurable organic search results. - Knowledge of web security solutions encompassing OWASP, CSP, WAF/bot management, and third-party tag governance. - Ability to design CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering strategies, defining SLAs/SLOs, and designing deployment pipelines. - Experience in automated testing and quality assurance using Jest, Playwright, and Cypress, plus tagging and analytics instrumentation via GTM, Amplitude, and Tealium. - Expertise in AEO and LLM-search readiness for generative search platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.