Senior WordPress Technical Architect & Developer

# Senior WordPress Technical Architect & Developer (Headless WordPress) We are looking for a **Senior WordPress Technical Architect & Developer** with extensive experience designing and delivering **enterprise-grade, high-traffic Headless WordPress platforms**. ## Primary Responsibility The **first and most important objective** of this engagement is to **design a comprehensive Technical Architecture Document** for the project before development begins. The selected candidate must be able to: * Analyze business and technical requirements. * Design a scalable, secure, and future-proof architecture. * Create detailed system architecture diagrams. * Define the CMS structure, content model, APIs, and data flow. * Recommend the most suitable technology stack. * Design infrastructure for high availability and scalability. * Document caching strategy, CDN, security, monitoring, backup, and deployment architecture. * Define coding standards, development workflow, and CI/CD strategy. * Produce documentation that can be used directly by the development team. Only candidates with prior experience preparing architecture documentation for enterprise WordPress projects should apply. ## Required Experience * 7+ years of professional WordPress development experience. * Strong expertise in **Headless WordPress** architecture. * Experience with WordPress REST API and/or WPGraphQL. * Custom plugin and theme development. * Technical architecture and system design for enterprise applications. * Experience building websites handling **50,000+ daily visitors**. * Performance optimization, caching (Redis, Varnish, Cloudflare, CDN), and database optimization. * AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud deployment experience. * CI/CD, Git, Docker, and modern development workflows. * API integrations and enterprise system integrations. ## Portfolio Requirements Please provide **2–3 enterprise WordPress projects** that demonstrate your architecture and development expertise. For each project include: * Live website * Your role * Whether it was Headless WordPress * Approximate daily traffic * Technologies used * Your architectural contributions ## Reference Verification (Mandatory) We will conduct reference checks for shortlisted candidates. Applications without relevant enterprise portfolio examples and verifiable references will not be considered. If you have a proven history of architecting and building scalable Headless WordPress platforms, we'd love to work with you.