Technical Lead
Technical Lead
Job Summary
JD for Sitecore Technical Lead
The Sitecore Technical Lead is a senior hands-on engineer with 8+ years of .NET experience, including 5+ years on Sitecore XP. The role leads a support pod day to day, owns the technical quality of fixes and enhancements, and is the first escalation point for L2 / L3 issues on the client Sitecore estates.
Sitecore 10.x Developer certification is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
- Resolve L2 / L3 tickets in ServiceNow, including publishing issues, page and component fixes, redirects, forms and access requests.
- Build small enhancements (under 5 days) such as lead-gen form changes, product selector updates and new SXA components.
- Develop templates, renderings, layouts and SXA components with reuse and inheritance in mind.
- Support integrations with Aprimo DAM, Coveo / Solr, SFMC, Pardot, GA / GTM and Motor API at the Sitecore layer.
- Rebuild and troubleshoot search indexes, and clear caches and scoped CDN purges through the runbook.
- Apply patches and vulnerability fixes at the application layer and support regression testing.
- Deploy through the pipeline across dev, staging, preview and production, following the release calendar and code freezes.
- Keep technical documentation, runbooks and SOPs up to date.
- Take part in the US to India shift handover and on-call rota for critical outages.
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
- Hands-on Sitecore XP 10.x with SXA and multi-site, multi-language solutions.
- C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, REST APIs and basic GraphQL.
- Sitecore pipelines, processors, Content Search (Solr) and item buckets.
- Serialization tools such as Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS), Unicorn or TDS.
- Front-end basics: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, with React or Angular exposure.
- MS SQL for Sitecore databases.
- Git and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub).
Skill Requirements
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
- Hands-on Sitecore XP 10.x with SXA and multi-site, multi-language solutions.
- C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, REST APIs and basic GraphQL.
- Sitecore pipelines, processors, Content Search (Solr) and item buckets.
- Serialization tools such as Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS), Unicorn or TDS.
- Front-end basics: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, with React or Angular exposure.
- MS SQL for Sitecore databases.
- Git and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub).
- Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) scripting.
- Docker / AKS basics for containerised Sitecore.
- Exposure to Next.js / headless and SitecoreAI (XM Cloud).
- Experience with Aprimo connector, Coveo or Brightcove.