Senior Sanity Engineer (AEM Sanity Migration)

UN/COMMON

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Sanity Engineer to Lead the technical migration from AEM to Sanity CMS. This is a lift-and-shift rebuild of existing content architecture — not a redesign — requiring strong experience in schema modeling, content migration, and headless CMS integrations. This role will own the technical implementation of Sanity Studio, content modeling strategy, migration scripting, and integration with a Shopify/Hydrogen frontend. This is not a traditional AEM backend role. We are specifically looking for deep, hands-on Sanity expertise. Project Scope Context 3 template types: Marketing landing pages Store pages Pearl planner pages initiatives 25–30 reusable components 700+ store detail pages 100+ marketing content pages Lift-and-shift rebuild Scripted migration required

Requirements

2+ years hands-on production experience with Sanity CMS
Strong experience with: Schema design and structured content modeling
Strong experience with: GROQ queries
Strong experience with: Portable Text
Strong experience with: Structure Builder customization
Strong experience with: 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
Candidates must be available to commit consistently within the 30–40 hour/week range for the duration of the engagement.