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In this role, you will translate business, content, and design requirements into secure, scalable, and high-performing Sitecore solutions; develop reusable components, integrations, and AI-assisted capabilities; and help ensure reliable releases. You will work closely with the Sitecore Architect, developers, content teams, marketing stakeholders, analytics teams, and external partners to deliver maintainable experiences using Sitecore XM Cloud, SitecoreAI, React, Next.js, the Sitecore Content SDK, GraphQL, Experience Edge, Vercel, and modern cloud delivery practices.\nDevelop reusable, accessible headless components and intuitive authoring experiences that translate approved designs into maintainable application code.\nBuild and integrate SitecoreAI capabilities that improve content creation, content discovery, search relevance, personalization, and digital experience delivery while following approved governance and security standards.\nConfigure content models, templates, validation rules, metadata, and publishing workflows in partnership with content owners, with clear documentation for authors and support teams.\nDevelop and maintain integrations with enterprise platforms, including CRM, CDP, analytics, identity, consent management, search, marketing automation, and approved AI services.\nCollaborate with the Sitecore Architect and delivery partners on technical designs, implementation standards, AI development patterns, platform governance, and release planning.\nUse AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate coding, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and content operations while validating outputs for accuracy, security, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.\nParticipate in code reviews, automated testing, deployment coordination, and production readiness activities; provide practical guidance to other developers when needed.\nOptimize application performance, accessibility, security, SEO, AEO, GEO, caching, search discoverability, and content delivery across environments.\nDiagnose and resolve complex defects and production issues involving rendering, APIs, integrations, AI-enabled features, and content delivery using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.\nContribute to cloud and hosting decisions related to scalability, resilience, observability, and cost efficiency within the established architecture.\nImplement approved personalization capabilities and privacy-conscious analytics events, including GA4 event contracts, in coordination with analytics and integration teams.\nIdentify and recommend improvements to development practices, AI tooling, prompt and evaluation approaches, documentation, and platform capabilities that increase quality and delivery efficiency.\nWhat You Will Need:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\nAt least 4 years of software development experience, including hands-on delivery of Sitecore-based digital platforms in enterprise environments.\nHands-on experience developing headless Sitecore XM Cloud solutions using React, Next.js, Sitecore JSS or the Sitecore Content SDK, Experience Edge, and Vercel.\nExperience implementing or extending SitecoreAI features, AI-assisted content workflows, intelligent search or discovery, personalization, or related generative AI capabilities within a digital experience platform.\nProficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based development, HTML, CSS, REST APIs, GraphQL, and integration patterns for approved AI services.\nExperience with content modeling, templates, component configuration, metadata, publishing workflows, and authoring experiences in Sitecore.\nWorking knowledge of Sitecore Helix principles, headless implementation patterns, composable DXP architecture, and responsible AI development practices.\nAbility to design prompts, structured inputs, guardrails, and practical evaluation scenarios for AI-enabled features, and to assess outputs for quality, relevance, accuracy, privacy, and security.\nExperience with Git-based development, pull requests, automated testing, and CI/CD deployment practices.\nExperience integrating Sitecore with third-party and enterprise systems, such as analytics, identity, CRM, consent management, search, marketing platforms, or AI services.\nAbility to diagnose application, rendering, caching, API, deployment, AI integration, and content-delivery issues across environments.\nUnderstanding of web security, data privacy, accessibility, scalability, performance optimization, SEO, answer engine optimization (AEO), and generative engine optimization (GEO).\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and AI-related decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nAbility to work independently, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively in a hybrid, cross-functional delivery environment.\nAbility to support peers through code reviews, troubleshooting, documentation, and knowledge sharing while aligning with the Sitecore Architect’s technical direction.\nWhat Would Be Nice to Have:\nExperience with additional Sitecore products, such as Content Hub, Search, CDP, Personalize, or SXA.\nExperience developing with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI APIs, or agent-based workflows in an enterprise environment.\nFamiliarity with AI evaluation, prompt management, content governance, responsible AI principles, and monitoring of AI-enabled experiences.\nExperience delivering solutions on Microsoft Azure or another major cloud platform.\nFamiliarity with automated unit, integration, accessibility, performance, and visual regression testing.\nSitecore certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise.\nExperience working in regulated, high-traffic, or complex enterprise environments.\nStrong presentation and stakeholder management skills.\nAbout Guidehouse India\nAt Guidehouse India, we’re redefining what’s possible by creating opportunities that change lives. Guidehouse is a global professional services firm that delivers advisory, technology, and managed services to clients across both the commercial and public sectors. Our teams turn bold ideas into solutions that transform industries, strengthen communities, and drive meaningful impact worldwide.\nAcross our Chennai, Trivandrum, and Gurugram locations, you’ll find opportunities where your passion and curiosity help shape what comes next. With cutting edge benefits, innovative learning and development programs, and a people first culture, we empower our people to lead with purpose.\nWe continue to expand our teams and capabilities across India, investing in state-of-the-art offices and high impact work. Here, you’ll collaborate with experts from around the world, build deep expertise, explore new domains, and accelerate your professional growth while making a real impact.\nWhat We Offer\nAt Guidehouse India, we are committed to supporting the well-being of our people and their families at every stage of life. We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you thrive both inside and outside the workplace.\nOur benefits include resources such as in house physician consultations, nutritious food options at the workplace, and confidential counseling through our Employee Assistance Program, along with other wellness focused offerings that support your overall well being.\nOur comprehensive learning and development programs ensure you’re continuously upskilled and ready to tackle what’s next, so you can shape your own career path while contributing to meaningful, purpose driven work.\nImportant Fraud Notice\nAll official recruitment communications from Guidehouse will come from email addresses ending in @guidehouse.com or @myworkday.com. Guidehouse never charges fees, requests money transfers, or collects payments from educational institutions for recruitment events. Please do not share banking or personal financial information with anyone claiming to represent Guidehouse for hiring purposes.\nContact Us\nIf you have visited our website to explore career opportunities or to apply for a position and have questions, please contact the Guidehouse Recruiting team at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and used only as required to support the recruitment process.\nTo learn more about Guidehouse in India, visit www.guidehouse.com/india.\nGuidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. 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