At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Portugal - Remote · Paris
About Valtech
- Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.
- At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.
- At Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.
- Are you ready to create what’s next? Join us.
About the role
- Valtech is looking for an experienced Tech Lead - CoreMedia to join their team and work on a strategic digital commerce programme for a leading luxury brand within the LVMH Group.
- The role involves playing a key part at the intersection of technology, architecture, e-commerce, and digital experience, contributing to both the technical direction of the CoreMedia platform and project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical lead and main technical point of contact for the CoreMedia squad, towards client architects, product owners and stakeholders.
- Define and own the technical architecture and design of CoreMedia Content Cloud solutions (Studio, CAE, Headless Server, Content Delivery APIs), ensuring scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
- Remain hands-on on the most complex developments: custom content types, Studio extensions, Blueprint customisation, templates and Spring-based back-end components.
- Lead code reviews and enforce engineering standards, test automation, quality gates and technical documentation.
- Design and secure the integration of CoreMedia with the wider ecosystem: e-commerce platform, PIM, DAM, search, personalisation, CDN and other third-party services through APIs.
- Translate business and functional requirements into technical solutions and stories, contribute to estimation, backlog refinement and sprint planning.
- Drive CI/CD, environments and deployments (containers, cloud), release readiness and production support, including incident analysis and performance tuning.
- Manage technical debt, CoreMedia upgrades and Blueprint evolution, and anticipate technical risks and dependencies.
- Coach and mentor developers, promote knowledge sharing, onboard new members and foster technical autonomy and continuous improvement.
- Work in an Agile (Scrum / SAFe) setup: contribute to ceremonies and, in a SAFe environment, to PI Planning and the identification of technical dependencies across teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Java/JEE development, including 3+ years on CoreMedia (Content Cloud / CMS, Studio, CAE, Headless Server, Blueprint).
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring / Spring Boot, Maven, Freemarker/JSP templating and JavaScript / TypeScript.
- Solid experience designing REST and GraphQL APIs and headless / hybrid CMS architectures.
- Proven experience as Tech Lead or Lead Developer: technical decision-making, architecture, code review and mentoring.
- Experience integrating a CMS with e-commerce platforms, PIM, DAM and search solutions in a complex enterprise landscape.
- Good knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes and a cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).
- Good understanding of performance, caching, security, SEO and accessibility for large-scale web platforms.
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe) with Jira and Confluence.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical teams, business stakeholders and clients, in onsite and distributed setups.
- Fluent English (C2).
Preferred qualifications
- Experience on luxury, retail or large multi-brand, multi-site and multi-language digital platforms.
- CoreMedia certification or experience of CoreMedia major upgrades and migrations.
- Knowledge of e-commerce platforms or marketplaces (e.g. SAP Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools).
- Front-end / headless experience (React, Next.js, Node.js).
- Experience with observability and performance testing tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, JMeter).
- Experience in large-scale Agile organisations and SAFe ceremonies such as PI Planning.
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Miro or equivalent.
- French is a strong asset (working proficiency appreciated).
Benefits
- Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)
- Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
- Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts
Workplace
- Requirement to work onsite with the client in Paris La Défense for a minimum of three consecutive days every month.
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Maven
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
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- Jira
- Confluence
