Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is a 150-year-old conservation nonprofit focused on outdoor recreation from Maine to Virginia. They are seeking a Lead Web Platform Engineer to own the evolution of their website platform and design the future-state architecture. This role involves stabilizing the current WordPress environment while ensuring reliable and secure digital experiences for their constituents.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize and Elevate the Current Wordpress Environment
• Administer and optimize our WordPress platform
• Mature hosting architecture within AWS
• Oversee plugin lifecycle, versioning, and governance
• Improve performance (caching, CDN optimization)
• Strengthen security posture and access controls
• Improve CI/CD and environment promotion processes
• Ensure integration reliability (Salesforce, Shopify, booking systems)
• Architect the Next Generation Platform
• Create a more unified digital experience
• Design and document a headless CMS future state
• Lead technical evaluations of CMS replacement options
• Define content modeling and structured metadata strategy
• Establish standards for APIs, content delivery, and omnichannel readiness
• Partner with Marketing to modernize publishing workflows
• Create phased migration roadmap and technical proofs of concept
• Establish Platform Governance
• Define publishing and deployment standards
• Formalize performance SLAs and monitoring practices
• Create documentation and architecture diagrams
• Improve taxonomy and structured content governance
• Align website evolution with enterprise data strategy
• Be a Strategic Technical Partner
• Translate business needs into digital architecture decisions
• Proactively identify modernization opportunities
• Contribute to multi-year digital roadmap planning
• Provide thoughtful platform recommendations grounded in scalability and sustainability

Skills

• 3-5 Experience owning/administering a CMS/web platform in production
• Strong WordPress experience required
• Experience with administering payment gateways and webhook/API integrations
• Hands-on AWS experience for PHP/WordPress workloads
• Proven experience maintaining data integrations with a variety of platforms. Salesforce experience preferred
• Strong grounding in web security, least-privilege/IAM, secrets management, and PII/compliance considerations
• A systems thinker who sees architecture, not just pages
• A strategic technologist who understands that the website is a critical integration layer across all of our platforms
• Comfortable owning the platform end-to-end
• Equally strong in execution and design
• Self-directed and proactive
• Comfortable collaborating across multiple stakeholder teams
• Motivated by building something durable and modern
• Nonprofit domain experience (donations, memberships, recurring gifts, acknowledgments)
• Gravity Forms experience
• Headless CMS experience
• Experience integrating CMS with Salesforce or other CRM platforms
• Experience with structured data, schema, and AI-ready content modeling
• Familiarity with security reviews and penetration testing coordination

Benefits

• Health Plan: Generous employer contributions through Cigna with optional vision and dental.
• Other Insurance: 100% employer paid life insurance, AD&D insurance, long-term disability.
• Career Progression: The potential to have annual compensation reviews commensurate with performance and effort.
• Retirement: Mandatory 403(b) with 4% matching employer contributions and a vesting schedule.
• Paid Time Off: up to 4 weeks of paid earned time and up to 11 paid company holidays.
• 30% discount on AMC Merchandise
• Free Annual AMC Membership
• 10 Free nights at AMC locations
• Educational Assistance
• Prodeals discounts on equipment & gear and more!

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