Umbraco Tech Lead Consultant

Umbraco Tech Lead Consultant

Engagement type: 

• Contract consultant - embedded with a Clockwork delivery team


• 3-month commitment
  
  
  
  • 15 hours per week for month 1
  
  
  • 36 hours per week for months 2-3
  
  
  
  

Start: Beginning of March 2026
Location: Hybrid (Minneapolis)

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The Opportunity

Clockwork is migrating a website from Kentico to Umbraco and restructuring it into three separate Umbraco sites running on the client’s custom Umbraco infrastructure.

We need an experienced Umbraco consultant to join as an embedded hands-on tech lead + developer early in the work, establishing patterns and accelerating delivery, then rolling off before all three sites are complete once the team is confidently executing in Umbraco and .NET.

Accessibility is a key requirement, and we want a consultant who treats a11y as a first-class engineering concern from architecture through QA.

What you’ll do

• Technical leadership and enablement


• Lead early architecture and implementation decisions in Umbraco and .NET and establish team standards (structure, patterns, workflows).


• Pair with Clockwork engineers and coach a team with strong web experience and limited Umbraco and .NET experience.


• Create pragmatic documentation and examples so the team can continue independently after your ramp-down.

Hands-on development

• Build foundational Umbraco structures (content types, templates, shared components, navigation patterns).


• Guide and support the migration approach from Kentico, including content mapping and movement strategy.


• Integrate essential tooling as needed (analytics/tag management, maps, and other client-specific integrations).

Accessibility and quality

• Bake accessibility into components and templates (semantic HTML, keyboard support, focus states, form patterns, ARIA where appropriate).


• Help define a11y acceptance criteria and testing habits (automated and manual checks) within the team.

Operational collaboration

• Work within client-managed infrastructure, environments, and deployment processes.


• Help ensure environment parity and release confidence through solid workflows and guardrails.

What success looks like

• The team has repeatable Umbraco patterns and can ship confidently without a long-term dependency on you.


• The initial site foundations are solid and accessible.


• You roll off cleanly with a strong handoff, leaving the team ready to complete the remaining sites.

Required experience

• Deep, recent Umbraco implementation experience (architecture, patterns, delivery, troubleshooting).


• Strong .NET/C# web development experience, with comfort mentoring developers newer to .NET.


• Experience with CMS migrations (Kentico experience is a plus).


• Demonstrated accessibility delivery experience (WCAG-informed implementation and validation).

Nice to have

• Experience in enterprise environments with multiple environments and structured deployment processes.


• Multi-site implementations and shared component libraries/design systems in CMS contexts.


• Experience enabling content editors and supporting launch readiness.