Cascade CMS Architect

About Us

Exemplifi designs, builds, and manages digital experiences for government and higher-education clients. We specialize in large-scale CMS implementations, migrations, and long-term support, with deep expertise in Cascade CMS, Drupal, WordPress, Kentico, and other enterprise platforms. Our teams in the U.S., India, and Latin America deliver strategy, design, and engineering at scale while maintaining the highest standards for accessibility, compliance, and security.

Role Overview

system design, architecture, governance, and team enablement.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design

Define Cascade site/subsite structures, foldering conventions, and reusable components.

Architect structured content types, templates, and blocks for long-term maintainability.

Governance & Workflow

Configure and optimize role-based workflows for faculty, staff, marketing, and IT teams.

Balance centralized control with decentralized publishing needs.

Integration Planning

Advise on integrations with DAMs (Bynder, Acquia DAM), accessibility tools (Siteimprove, Monsido, DubBot), and analytics (GA4).

Guide API-first and headless Cascade use cases.

Migration & Performance

Support high-volume content migration (5k–10k+ pages).

Recommend caching, CDN, and hosting optimizations for scalability.

Team Enablement

Train and mentor developers (India/Argentina teams) on Cascade best practices.

Review code (Velocity, XML, XSLT, JS/CSS) and enforce quality standards.

Develop internal “cookbooks” for common components and workflows.

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ years of CMS implementation experience,

  3+ years hands-on Cascade CMS

  (Hannon Hill).
• Expertise in Cascade templates, structured content, Velocity scripting, and XML/XSLT.
• Strong background in accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA) and higher-ed/government environments.
• Experience designing publishing workflows for distributed teams.
• Familiarity with common integrations: Siteimprove, DAMs, Cludo, Ellucian/Banner, GA4.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across global, distributed teams.
• Bonus: Prior work at a Cascade implementation partner (e.g., Beacon, OHO, NewCity, Elliance, Stamats).

Engagement Details

• Type:

  Consultant / Contract (10–20 hrs per week to start).

• Location:

  Remote (US preferred; open to global).

• Duration:

  3–6 month initial engagement, with potential extension.

• Compensation:

  Competitive hourly rate / monthly retainer based on experience.