Key skills
AEMJavaJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactSpringSanityShopifyCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the technical migration from AEM to Sanity CMS.
- Own the technical implementation of Sanity Studio.
- Develop content modeling strategy and migration scripting.
- Integrate with a Shopify/Hydrogen frontend.
- Manage a lift-and-shift rebuild of existing content architecture.
Requirements
- 2+ years hands-on production experience with Sanity CMS
- Strong experience with:
- Schema design and structured content modeling
- GROQ queries
- Portable Text
- Structure Builder customization
- Dataset/environment management
- Experience executing large-scale CMS migrations (500+ pages)
- Experience writing content migration scripts (Node.js preferred)
- Strong React and/or Next.js experience
- Experience integrating headless CMS with Shopify or other commerce platforms
- Strong understanding of headless architecture patterns
- Previous AEM → headless CMS migration experience (Preferred)
- Shopify Hydrogen experience (Preferred)
- Experience with high-volume, template-driven page generation (Preferred)
- Enterprise CMS governance and role-based workflows (Preferred)
- CI/CD deployment experience for headless builds (Preferred)
- This is not... Traditional AEM backend-only developers
- Java/Spring-only engineers
- Developers without real production Sanity experience
- Pure frontend developers without CMS architecture experience
Tech Stack
- AEM
- Java
- JavaScript
- Next.js
- Node.js
- React
- Spring
Benefits
- Hourly Rate: $40/hour
- Estimated Weekly Hours: Estimated 30–40 hours per week based on project needs.
- Project Start Date: Mid-March 2026
- Projected End Date: July 1, 2026
- Engagement Type: Contract
- This is a time-bound migration project with a defined delivery window. Candidates must be available to commit consistently within the 30–40 hour/week range for the duration of the engagement.