Web Platforms Engineer

We are seeking a Web Platform Engineer to be the hands-on technical expert for the web and content management (CMS) platforms of a global life sciences client. This is an architect-engineer role: you will help set technical direction, and you will also dig into the code yourself. You will lead the technical side of a CMS evaluation and modernization effort, quickly prototype new platform capabilities, and shape the platform layer that teams use to build and run patient and healthcare professional (HCP) websites at scale. You will work closely with the client's infrastructure, engineering and product teams, turning website needs into clear platform and integration requirements. The role is focused on web and CMS platforms only.

Responsibilities

CMS Evaluation and Selection: Lead the technical side of evaluating modern CMS and digital experience platforms, including headless and AI-enabled options; Rapid Prototyping and Technology Assessment: Build quick proofs of concept for new platform features and emerging tools and recommend whether and how to adopt them; Platform Capability Ownership: Shape, maintain and evolve the web platform layer that sits on top of the CMS, including tooling for creating new sites, reusable components and templates, automated testing, and managing content at scale; Migration and Modernization: Define the target architecture and migration approach for moving websites from legacy platforms onto the selected platform, including reusable patterns, risks, dependencies and quality gates; Infrastructure and Integration Partnership: Act as the web team's technical liaison to central infrastructure and engineering teams and turn website and CMS needs into clear requirements for hosting, integrations, APIs and AI/MCP layers; AI-Enabled Content and Delivery: Help shape how AI is used across the platform, from prompt-based content updates and site creation to automated testing and validation, with the right governance and controls in place; Quality, Security and Compliance: Make sure platform patterns support enterprise expectations for security, privacy and consent, accessibility, performance, SEO and regulatory compliance; Technical Guidance and Issue Resolution: Be the go-to technical expert for website teams and help resolve complex platform and integration issues

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 10+ years in web engineering and architecture, including 5+ years working hands-on with enterprise CMS or digital experience platforms; Hands-on experience with more than one enterprise CMS, including Adobe Experience Manager (ideally Edge Delivery Services, formerly Franklin) and at least one of Drupal or a headless CMS such as Sanity or Contentful; Proven experience leading, or playing a key technical role in, a CMS evaluation, selection or replatforming effort; Strong development background, comfortable reading and writing code in GitHub repositories and building working prototypes quickly; Solid knowledge of web architecture, front-end technologies, APIs, CI/CD, CDNs and third-party integrations such as analytics, consent, identity, forms and CRM; Experience turning business and delivery needs into clear technical and platform requirements, and working with infrastructure, product and vendor teams to get them delivered; Practical understanding of web security, privacy and consent, accessibility, performance and SEO

Nice to have

Experience with AI-assisted content authoring, LLM-based tooling, or building and consuming MCP servers; Experience with Adobe Edge Delivery Services authoring options, including Document Authoring (DA.live); Experience building multi-site platforms, site factories or internal developer tooling, including automated testing; Experience in a regulated industry, ideally life sciences or pharma, including patient and HCP websites; Experience working in a large, federated enterprise with multiple platform and delivery teams; Prior experience in consulting; Prior experience and connections in the Life Sciences industry