Fullstack Contentful Architect

About the Role

At Robots & Pencils, we build digital platforms that blend strategy, engineering, and experience design. We are seeking a Fullstack Contentful Content Architect to design and evolve structured content systems supporting a unified digital ecosystem spanning web, mobile, and kiosk experiences.

• Design modular, scalable, future‑proof content models aligned to front‑end rendering patterns and platform needs.
• Define localization strategies, taxonomy patterns, approval workflows, governance rules, and editorial roles.
• Ensure alignment between schema evolution, product roadmap, and platform growth.

• Collaborate with UX and product teams to ensure the authoring environment is intuitive, maintainable, and supports real‑time preview needs.
• Configure validation rules, automation, and extensions to optimize editorial productivity and accuracy.
• Lead training, workshops, and documentation for content governance and best practices.

• Partner with engineers to align data modeling with API schemas, rendering logic, and deployment workflows.
• Validate Contentful‑based structures in the context of headless front‑end development (Next.js/Vercel) and middleware integrations (Mule Soft).
• Participate in QA and implementation cycles to validate data integrity, content readiness, and rendering fidelity.

• Create and maintain documentation for patterns, naming conventions, workflows, and lifecycle rules.
• Audit content structure health and implement refinement strategies based on usage patterns and platform evolution.
• Help establish reusable content frameworks, enabling sustainable growth across product surfaces.

• 5+ years of structured content or headless CMS experience (Contentful strongly preferred).
• Experience designing schemas, workflows, governance frameworks, and multi‑environment publishing models.
• Familiarity with REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs, content deployment scripts, and CI/CD integration considerations.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, UX, and product teams delivering large‑scale digital platforms.

Occasional, based on workshops or collaboration needs

• Strong communication and workshop facilitation skills
• Empathy for both content authors and end users
• Systems thinking with a product mindset
• Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity
• Calm problem‑solving and low‑ego collaboration
• Commitment to quality and long‑term maintainability

You’ll contribute to one of the most visible and technically ambitious platform programs in the organization—helping build a scalable, flexible content system powering seamless cross‑property digital experiences. If you’re passionate about structured content, orchestration patterns, and designing modern composable ecosystems, we’d love to talk.