Senior Sanity Engineer, AEM Sanity Migration

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $40 per hour

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AEMJavaJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactSpring

About the role

  • Lead the technical migration from AEM to Sanity CMS.
  • Own the technical implementation of Sanity Studio.
  • Develop content modeling strategy and migration scripting.
  • Integrate with a Shopify/Hydrogen frontend.
  • Manage a lift-and-shift rebuild of existing content architecture.

Requirements

  • 2+ years hands-on production experience with Sanity CMS
  • Strong experience with:
  • - Schema design and structured content modeling
  • - GROQ queries
  • - Portable Text
  • - Structure Builder customization
  • - Dataset/environment management
  • Experience executing large-scale CMS migrations (500+ pages)
  • Experience writing content migration scripts (Node.js preferred)
  • Strong React and/or Next.js experience
  • Experience integrating headless CMS with Shopify or other commerce platforms
  • Strong understanding of headless architecture patterns
  • Previous AEM → headless CMS migration experience (Preferred)
  • Shopify Hydrogen experience (Preferred)
  • Experience with high-volume, template-driven page generation (Preferred)
  • Enterprise CMS governance and role-based workflows (Preferred)
  • CI/CD deployment experience for headless builds (Preferred)
  • This is not... Traditional AEM backend-only developers
  • Java/Spring-only engineers
  • Developers without real production Sanity experience
  • Pure frontend developers without CMS architecture experience
Benefits
  • Hourly Rate: $40/hour
  • Estimated Weekly Hours: Estimated 30–40 hours per week based on project needs.
  • Project Start Date: Mid-March 2026
  • Projected End Date: July 1, 2026
  • Engagement Type: Contract
  • This is a time-bound migration project with a defined delivery window. Candidates must be available to commit consistently within the 30–40 hour/week range for the duration of the engagement.
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Hard Skills & Tools
Sanity CMSSchema designStructured content modelingGROQ queriesPortable TextStructure Builder customizationDataset managementNode.jsReactNext.js