Optimizely Lead Developer/Architect

Rightpoint, a Genpact (NYSE: G) company, is where human experience and advanced technology solutions converge to create transformative business outcomes. As a digital experience agency and technology powerhouse, we specialize in translating user insights into scalable, platform-driven solutions. In partnership with leading technology providers, we help organizations accelerate growth through platform innovation and experience-led transformation.

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What You’ll Be Doing and the Impact You’ll Make:

As a Lead Optimizely Developer in our Digital Operations (DigOps) Development practice, you’ll take charge of designing and delivering Optimizely-based solutions across Content Cloud (CMS) and Commerce Cloud, along with their surrounding integrations. This role remains hands-on – you’ll still write code for critical components – but with a stronger focus on system-level architecture, team leadership, and ensuring that our projects meet both technical and business objectives. You will delegate implementation details to your team while owning the high-level design and overall system quality.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and design scalable solutions: Lead the technical design of Optimizely CMS/Commerce implementations, defining architecture patterns and integration approaches that are secure, performant, and maintainable. You’ll make key design decisions (data models, API contracts, deployment topology) and ensure the solution aligns with clients’ business goals and can scale for future needs.
• Stay hands-on with development: Balance high-level design with hands-on coding by building critical components and prototypes to set coding standards and solve complex problems. While you won’t code every feature, you will establish the technical baseline – writing foundational modules, exploring new Optimizely capabilities (such as GraphQL APIs or personalization features), and guiding the team’s implementation through example and code reviews.
• Lead and mentor a distributed team: Provide delivery leadership for a mixed onshore/offshore development team, coordinating work across time zones and ensuring everyone is aligned. You’ll mentor junior and mid-level developers through pair programming, code reviews, and coaching, fostering a culture of engineering excellence. By delegating tasks effectively and offering guidance, you’ll elevate the team’s capabilities and maintain a high standard of quality across the codebase.
• Own planning and delivery in an Agile environment: Take an active role in project planning and estimation oversight. Work with project managers and business analysts to break down complex requirements into implementable chunks, estimate effort for new initiatives, and anticipate risks or dependencies. You’ll lead technical discussions in Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives) and ensure the team’s commitments are realistic and delivered on schedule. Your oversight will keep projects on track and instill confidence in both the team and the client regarding our delivery plan.
• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams: Serve as a key technical liaison for clients – engaging in discovery sessions, capturing technical requirements, and translating business needs into Optimizely solutions. You’ll work closely with designers, UX strategists, QA engineers, and project managers to shape end-to-end solutions that are user-friendly and meet acceptance criteria. By communicating clearly (in non-technical terms when needed), you will build trust with stakeholders, ensuring that technical decisions reflect the client’s priorities and that any trade-offs are made transparently.