WordPress Architect
Posted 5 days ago by 1762411544
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The WordPress Architect role involves leading the design, development, and implementation of scalable WordPress solutions. The candidate will leverage technical expertise to create robust websites, themes, and plugins while ensuring security and performance. This position requires a deep understanding of WordPress architecture and the ability to manage complex projects effectively. The role is fully remote, allowing for flexible work arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of high-performance WordPress solutions.
- Architect robust websites, themes, and plugins with a focus on security and maintainability.
- Manage multisite setups and ensure compliance with WP VIP coding standards.
- Optimize performance and scalability for large-scale traffic handling.
- Provide technical leadership and collaborate on solution architecture design.
- Mentor developers and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
Key Skills:
- Deep knowledge of WordPress core architecture and advanced custom fields.
- Experience with WP VIP hosting and performance optimization strategies.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, and DevOps practices.
- Proficiency in Agile project collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to mentor and guide developers in coding standards and best practices.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: WordPress Architect
Work Type: Remote
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Job Description |
We are seeking an experienced WordPress Architect to lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, high-performance WordPress solutions. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strategic insight to architect robust websites, themes, and plugins while ensuring security, performance, and maintainability.
Core WordPress Expertise
Deep knowledge of WordPress core architecture (hooks, filters, REST API, database schema).
- Multisite setup & management domain mapping, shared users, centralized vs. brand-specific themes.
- Theme & Plugin architecture ability to build enterprise-grade custom themes/plugins that comply with WP VIP coding standards.
- Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) / Gutenberg designing flexible, scalable content models.
WP VIP Hosting Knowledge
Familiarity with WordPress VIP platform (VIP Go, VIP CLI, and CI/CD pipelines).
- Code review and performance standards strong grasp of WordPress Coding Standards (PHPCS), linting, and VIP Go requirements.
- Caching strategies page/object caching, Advanced Post Cache, Redis, and VIP s built-in caching layers.
Security compliance secure coding practices, restricted plugins, data handling, GDPR compliance.
Performance & Scalability
Large-scale traffic handling query optimization, scaling multisite databases, use of transient/APIs.
- Front-end performance asset concatenation/minification, lazy loading, Core Web Vitals optimization.
CDN/Edge delivery integration with Cloudflare or VIP s edge caching for global sites.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Solution architecture design multisite brand hierarchy, shared vs. isolated codebases, content modeling, headless CMS hierarchy.
- Integration expertise REST APIs, GraphQL, headless/decoupled options, external CRMs/marketing tools.
- DevOps awareness Docker, Lando, WSL, GitHub/GitLab workflows, CI/CD pipelines for VIP.
- Monitoring & observability New Relic, Logstash, VIP logs, debugging performance bottlenecks.
Collaboration & Best Practices
Agile project collaboration Jira, Confluence, Git workflows (PRs, code reviews).
- Documentation technical architecture docs, coding guidelines, onboarding resources.
- Mentoring developers setting coding standards, ensuring compliance with VIP review processes.