Summary
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A leading digital and creative organization is rebuilding a large content platform and is seeking an experienced CMS developer for a remote three-month engagement. You will configure a modern enterprise CMS, design structured content models and editorial workflows, migrate content from a legacy platform, build accessible front-end components, and integrate analytics, CRM, and marketing systems. The role also involves internationalised content, CI pipelines, user acceptance testing, and AI-ready search capabilities. Strong digital, creative, or advertising-agency experience is expected.
Highlights
Remote three-month contract paying up to £550 per day, focused on modern CMS architecture, content migration, internationalisation, accessibility, integrations, and AI-ready search capabilities.
Description
Up to £550 per day, 3 month remote contract, Outside IR35, Sanity Developer (CMS), Start by 26th October.
A top digital/ advertising agency are looking at a rebuild from Drupal onto Sanity (Enterprise) - Phase 2 Create (experience design, content strategy, design and content sprints, technical solution definition) and Phase 3 Build / Launch.
You will have extensive digital/ creative/ advertising agency experience as well.
Deliverables:
- Sanity content model and Studio configuration - structured content (200+ services, locations, resources), editorial workflows and roles.
- Internationalisation - EN master with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish
- Drupal to Sanity content migration
- Front-end templates and components WCAG 2.2 AA
- Integrations - HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4 / GTM
- AI search & guided wayfinding (Sanity) - embeddings-based search and AI-ready structured content
- Environments, preview / CI pipeline, sprint demos, UAT defect fixing in Jira, technical documentation for hand-off
Experience required:
- 3+ years building full-stack web applications in production; senior level
- Hands-on production experience with Sanity.io - content modelling, GROQ, Studio customisation and custom input components (required)
- Shipped at least two production Sanity.io projects with a live URL
- Experience designing and building headless architectures end to end, not just consuming a pre-configured CMS
- Strong TypeScript, React / Node.js .
Next.js or equivalent
- Clean content migrations that do not break downstream consumers
- Rendering strategy (SSR / ISR), image optimisation, SEO fundamentals and Core Web Vitals built in from the start
- Multilingual / localised content in Sanity - document-level translation, fallback hierarchy, locale routing
- CRM and analytics integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4 / GTM) with clean abstractions and resilience to upstream change
- Preview environments, CI checks, rollback; error handling and observability
- Accessible, maintainable component code (WCAG 2.2 AA) that matches design intent
- Documents architectural decisions so the codebase can be extended or handed to the client team
Preferred
- Sanity AI / embeddings features (embeddings index, Sanity Context plugin) or search implementations on structured content
- Enterprise B2B / professional or financial services sites with 200+ structured service and location pages
- Experience onboarding or pairing with an in-house client developer
