Up to £550 per day, 3 month remote contract, Outside IR35, Sanity Developer (CMS), Start asap
****Heavy front end, done large builds, then moved into Sanity and has a few Sanity builds under their belt****
A top digital/ advertising agency are looking at a rebuild from Drupal onto Sanity (Enterprise) - Phase 2 Create (experience design, content strategy, design and content sprints, technical solution definition) and Phase 3 Build / Launch.
You will have extensive digital/ creative/ advertising agency experience
Deliverables:
- Sanity content model and Studio configuration - structured content (200+ services, locations, resources), editorial workflows and roles.
- Internationalisation - EN master with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish
- Drupal to Sanity content migration
- Front-end templates and components WCAG 2.2 AA
- Integrations - HubSpot, Salesforce, GA4 / GTM
- AI search & guided wayfinding (Sanity) - embeddings-based search and AI-ready structured content
- Environments, preview / CI pipeline, sprint demos, UAT defect fixing in Jira, technical documentation for hand-off
Experience required:
- 3+ years building full-stack web applications in production; senior level
- Shipped at least two production Sanity.io projects with a live URL
- Hands-on production experience with Sanity.io - content modelling, GROQ, Studio customisation and custom input components (required)
- Experience designing and building headless architectures end to end, not just consuming a pre-configured CMS
- Strong TypeScript, React / Node.js . Next.js or equivalent
- Clean content migrations that do not break downstream consumers
- Rendering strategy (SSR / ISR), image optimisation, SEO fundamentals and Core Web Vitals built in from the start
- Multilingual / localised content in Sanity - document-level translation, fallback hierarchy, locale routing