Lead Optimizely Solutions Architect

Overview

Lead a multidisciplinary team to design and deliver enterprise digital experience platforms on Optimizely, acting as a trusted technical advisor to clients navigating digital transformation.

What you'll do

• Design enterprise-grade Optimizely solutions that align business objectives, technical requirements and industry best practices.
• Define scalable architectures across content management, integrations, personalization, analytics and digital experience platforms.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple concurrent projects and guide teams through complex implementation challenges.
• Produce architecture documentation, technical specifications and executive-ready presentations.
• Lead technical discovery efforts, feasibility assessments and risk identification.
• Support engineering teams with proof-of-concepts, complex implementations and critical technical decisions.
• Establish and promote best practices around content modeling, headless delivery, security, performance and maintainability.
• Design integrations across CRM, commerce, CDP, PIM, DAM, analytics and identity ecosystems.
• Define data collection, event tracking and analytics strategies that drive personalization, experimentation and business insights.
• Design and deliver AI-enabled experiences and workflows leveraging Optimizely Opal, LLM services and emerging AI technologies.
• Define governance frameworks and guardrails for AI adoption, including privacy, compliance, content quality and human oversight.
• Champion AI-assisted software delivery practices, including code generation, testing automation and developer productivity tools.
• Help clients identify practical AI use cases that create measurable business value across content, marketing and experimentation workflows.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to enterprise clients.
• Define technology roadmaps and provide recommendations for platform evolution and modernization.
• Advise on broader MarTech and enterprise ecosystems, ensuring Optimizely integrates effectively with existing platforms and services.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Delivery Leads and Creative teams to maximize business impact.
• Communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with the Optimizely product ecosystem, including CMS, Graph, Experimentation, CMP, Commerce and Opal.
• Contribute to business development activities, solution shaping, client workshops and proposal development.
• Lead top-down and bottom-up estimation exercises for new opportunities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to Valtech's offerings, accelerators and delivery standards.
• Mentor architects and developers while helping define the future direction of the practice.
• Manage a small team of direct reports, supporting performance, career growth and professional development.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise web development, including at least 5 years in a Solution Architect, Technical Architect or similar leadership role.
• Deep expertise with Optimizely CMS (CMS 12 and/or SaaS CMS), including multiple enterprise implementations delivered as the lead architect.
• Strong .NET background, including C#, ASP.NET Core, MVC and Optimizely APIs.
• Experience delivering headless and hybrid architectures using Optimizely Graph and/or Content Delivery API.
• Front-end integration experience with React, Next.js or similar frameworks.
• Strong understanding of content modeling, personalization, multisite and multilingual implementations.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms including CRM, commerce, CDP, PIM, DAM, search and identity providers.
• Experience designing analytics and data solutions involving platforms such as Optimizely Data Platform, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Snowflake or BigQuery.
• Proven experience delivering AI-enabled capabilities in production environments, including LLM integrations, agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions.
• Experience with Optimizely DXP, Azure cloud services, CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development workflows.
• Experience supporting estimation, solution shaping and pre-sales activities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing engineering or architecture teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Optimizely Commerce, CMP, Web Experimentation, Feature Experimentation or Opal.
• Experience with composable architectures and MACH-inspired ecosystems.
• Exposure to additional headless CMS platforms such as Contentful or Contentstack.
• Experience with agent frameworks, vector databases or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Optimizely certifications across 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-related certifications including Azure AI Engineer Associate, AWS Machine Learning Engineer, Claude Architect certifications, or Google Generative AI credentials.

Details

• Full-time position based in Canada.
• Offered salary range is 110,000 - 160,000 CAD annually, depending on experience and location.
• Flexible scheduling throughout the year, provided weekly hours are completed; company closes during winter holidays.
• Benefits include a comprehensive insurance plan, $500 Personal Spending Account, RRSP matching via DPSP up to 4%, flexible vacation, and $30/month personal technology reimbursement.