Technical Lead Frontend/CMS

Technical Lead Frontend/CMS

The CMS Technical Lead is responsible for leading and providing technical guidance for both the organization's content management system (CMS) and the design system. This role involves ensuring the stability, security, performance, and consistency of the digital presence by managing the technical aspects of these systems.

As a team member, technical lead will assist the team on development, handling the technical vision on supported products .

He/she will be both a technical and a human leader to support the team through its skills and practices, helping teammates to grow. He/she will also ease the communication between the team and interlocutors especially while discussing technical topics.  

Main Responsibilities:

• Bring Technical expertise in the Product/Scrum Team/Squad to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Support software design and implementation according to enterprise architecture guidelines.

• Be the first technical interlocutor for solutions which are owned by the team. Would it be communicating and dissipating potential day to day pressure.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to technical teams working with CMS teams.

• Set technical direction, standards, and best practices for both CMS development.

• Analyse, design and integrate CMS content changes into NextJS web apps.

• Maintain and evolve CMS integration with eCommerce APIs and content model of the organisation.

• Oversee the configuration and maintenance of the CMS to align with the organization's content and digital strategies

• Stay informed about updates, features, and best practices of the CMS and ensure their effective implementation

• Collaborate with content creators, editors, and stakeholders to facilitate the efficient creation, editing, and publishing of content within the CMS

• Collaborate with design and development teams to implement design system components and guidelines

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team

• Set technical direction, standards, and best practices for CMS development

• Collaborate with Frontend Development community of practice by actively participating in knowledge sharing, mentoring peers and engaging in discussions to foster skill development, innovation, and a strong professional network

• Ensure proper code quality / coverage / documentation

• Promote, align and support the best-in-class development principles
  ex: Clean Code, Clean Archi, DDD/BDD/TDD

• Promote best-in-class development methodologies
  ex: Pair programming,  Peer testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery.

• Supporting Team Manager in the recruitments of new talents which will be part of the Squad/Team

• Supporting Team Manager in the team members assigned to the Squad to continuously developing themselves, both personally and within their area of expertise, so that they remain up to date in their field of expertise.

Qualifications & Skills:

Professional qualification

• 2+ years proven track record in this role of Frontend Tech Lead (with mentoring of developers), preferably in an international, multicultural environment as a part of virtual team.

• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP) for software development including DevOps.

Professional skills & abilities

• Good communication and influencing skills

• Build relationships: a team player able to build and develop networks

• Change management: ability to support team members in changing environment

• Results oriented: proven track-record of delivering on targets

• Project / Product management: helping team with organisation, prioritisation, and translation of business requirements into technical requirements

• Analytical and creative, proactive to solve issues

• Able to support with Recruiting and talent retention.

Technical skills

• Proven track record as Tech Lead or Lead developer or Frontend Architect

• Proficiency in headless CMS platforms (preferably Contentful)

• Proficiency in web development technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks (Next.JS preferably)

• Strong understanding of design principles, user experience (UX), and accessibility

• Knowledge of design system best practices and principles

• 3+ years of HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility

• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.

• Fluency in English—verbal and written

REASONS TO JOIN LYRECO
 

• A full- time job in a dynamic, passionate, international team

• Possibility to join internal accelerator program

• Competitive salary

• Hybrid work model

You will work in our office in Valenciennes/Marly/France

If the above job description interests you and you think you are a good fit, apply now!  
We look forward to receiving your application in English.  

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