Location : Sheffield / London (2/3 days a week in office)
Role Overview
A hands-on Technical Lead to establish and grow a new sitecore development capability from the ground up. This is a foundational role within a newly formed DevOps POD merging into an existing team, requiring someone who leads by technical example, builds team culture, and delivers high-quality Sitecore solutions across backend and frontend.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across a cross-functional Sitecore development team, including engineers based in India, Poland and China.
- Actively contribute to and review pull requests; maintain code quality and architectural standards
- Unblock engineers and provide clear, pragmatic technical direction day-to-day
- Drive Agile ceremonies - sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives - and embed engineering best practices
- Engage directly with business stakeholders to translate requirements into sound technical solutions
- Define and evolve the team's development standards.
- Support hiring and onboarding of backend and frontend developers as the team scales
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on Sitecore experience (XM/XP/XM Cloud)
- Proficiency with Sitecore's architecture, content modelling, and multisite configurations
- Experience with Sitecore headless delivery (JSS, Experience Edge) desirable.
- C# / .NET development (ASP.NET Core)
- RESTful API design and integration patterns
- Sitecore Helix architecture principles
- Experience with Azure or other cloud hosting environments is a plus.
- Working knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js preferred)
- Ability to review frontend code critically and guide frontend engineers effectively
- Git-based workflows, branching strategies, and agile culture
- Familiarity with unit testing, integration testing, and automation testing approaches
- Ability to instil QA discipline within a development team
- Proven experience leading a high-performing development team in a hands-on capacity
- Strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Structured, pragmatic approach to Agile delivery
Nice to Have
- Sitecore certification(s)
- Experience building or rebuilding a team/capability from scratch
- Familiarity with Sitecore CDP, Personalize, or Search
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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