Technology Lead

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief:

You’reonly as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps,portalsand other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500companiesin intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data,designand technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lockarms
We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatestgood.

Showhustle
We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, weanticipateopportunities, collectively roll up oursleevesand find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change
Fromnew technologies to workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantlyanticipatewhat’snext.

Elevate empathy
We listen before we take action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle
We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.
But enough about us.

Let’stalk about you.

As a Technology Lead in our Sitecore Practice, you own the technical implementation of client programs end to end — from discovery and solution definition through build, QA and release. Your measure of success is simple: satisfied clients, successful project delivery, and healthy project margins.

We're looking for a hands‑on player/coach who has shipped modern, composable Sitecore solutions on SitecoreAI (formerly XM Cloud) with headless Next.js front ends hosted on Vercel or Netlify. You'll lead a blended team of front‑end and back‑end developers, partner closely with project management, strategy and UX/creative, and bring a pragmatic, AI‑assisted approach to how we design, build and deliver.

• Own technical delivery: accountable for quality, timeline and budget of the technical solution across one or more client engagements, in partnership with the Project Manager.
• Lead technical discovery: run discovery sessions, technical assessments and audits, and translate business goals and creative/UX artifacts into functional and technical specifications.
• Define the architecture: shape headless solutions on SitecoreAI — content modeling, component design, rendering strategy (SSG/ISR/SSR), integrations, search, personalization, and the hosting, CI/CD and environment strategy on Vercel or Netlify.
• Plan the work: lead sprint breakdown and estimation, identify technical dependencies and risks, and define the technology approach and toolset.
• Guard quality: perform solution and code reviews, enforce Helix-aligned and front‑end best practices, and approve features for hand‑off to QA. Ensure solutions meet performance (Core Web Vitals), accessibility (WCAG), SEO and security standards.
• Drive QA and release: partner with the QA lead on test plans and UAT, triage defects, own deployment run‑books and rollback plans, and oversee production releases.
• Be the technical face to the client: support technical decision‑making, handle escalations, and communicate status, risks and opportunities clearly to client and internal stakeholders.

• Lead and grow the team: assign and oversee daily work, clear blockers, and act as the technical escalation point.
• Coach and mentor: support developers' career growth through feedback, performance reviews and training, and partner with Talent Acquisition on interviewing and hiring.
• Champion AI‑assisted engineering: help the team adopt AI…