Job Title: Technical Architect - Digital Solutions

Experience: 10+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Technical Architect - Digital Solutions (Drupal / Wordpress / Other CMS) to lead the architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale digital platforms built on Drupal and modern CMS technologies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone passionate about building scalable, secure, high-performance solutions while driving innovation through cloud technologies, DevOps, and AI-assisted software engineering.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working directly with clients, leading technical teams, contributing to pre-sales activities, and defining engineering best practices. This role emphasizes technical leadership and architecture, with project coordination responsibilities as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

- Architect enterprise-grade Drupal solutions, including multisite, multilingual, multi-domain, and headless implementations.
- Define scalable, secure, and high-performance application architectures and technical roadmaps.
- Establish engineering standards, coding best practices, architecture governance, and reusable frameworks.
- Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical mentoring.

Drupal & Enterprise Solutions

- Lead large-scale Drupal implementations, migrations, upgrades, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Design robust content models, workflows, integrations, and enterprise CMS solutions.
- Architect integrations with CRM, ERP, Identity Management, Search, Marketing Automation, AI services,



and other enterprise platforms.

Cloud, DevOps & Performance

- Design cloud-native Drupal deployments using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code, and automated release processes.
- Optimize application performance through caching strategies, database tuning, CDN integration, monitoring, and scalability planning.
- Ensure security, accessibility, and operational excellence across all deployments.

AI & Innovation

- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
- Evaluate and integrate AI technologies such as LLMs, RAG, intelligent search, personalization, and workflow automation into enterprise solutions.
- Promote responsible AI adoption, technical innovation, and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Client Engagement & Pre-Sales

- Work directly with clients to understand business requirements and define technical solutions.
- Participate in solution design, technical presentations, estimations, proposals, and RFP responses.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout project engagements.

Leadership





- Mentor developers and technical leads while fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure successful project execution and technical quality.
- Contribute to building organizational capabilities, technical practices, and innovation initiatives.

Required Skills

- 10+ years of experience in Drupal/Wordpress and enterprise web application development.
- Strong expertise in Drupal architecture, custom development, Composer, Configuration Management, Symfony, REST APIs, GraphQL, and headless Drupal.
- Experience designing multisite, multilingual, and large-scale Drupal deployments.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, contemporary front-end frameworks, SQL databases, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD.
- Experience with performance optimization, caching, scalability, security, and DevOps best practices.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and enterprise AI integration patterns.
- Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to independently lead technical discussions and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

- Drupal certification(s).
- Experience with Acquia, Pantheon, or Platform.sh.
- Cloud platform experience with certifications in AWS/Azure
- Exposure to Digital Experience Platforms (DXP), composable architectures, and enterprise integrations.
- Agile/Scrum experience and familiarity with AI platforms such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or similar services.

📌 Technical Architect - Digital Solutions (Kochi)
🏢 PANAPPS INTERNATIONAL
📍 Kochi