Drupal Developer

Job description

·  Job Description:

Essential Job Functions

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*            Independently engage and partner with agency designers, business stakeholders and onshore/offshore IT teams to translate business and technical requirements to well-engineered and tested scalable solutions

*            Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership on architecture, management, digital asset governance, configuration, upgrades and functional evolution of the Drupal 8 platform and capability

*            Bring deep technical expertise to content management, decoupled software development, user experience, quality assurance, architecture, instrumentation and performance decisions

*            Ensure compliance with security, infrastructure processes, policies and other administrative/corporate procedures.  Proactively monitor site stability and performance, work with production support and development teams to identify and implement mitigation strategies.

*            Ensure project success by providing feedback after reviewing project plans, timelines, estimates, and requirements documents; identify risks and mitigation strategies. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

*            Proactive with finding efficiencies in design elements and consistency across multiple site designs

*            Be proficient in agile development methodology including the translation of user stories to dev requirements, pair programming, iterative epic development, testing/debugging, reporting, documentation, deployment and maintenance/support. 

*            Develop, enforce and ensure adherence to content standards, meta-tagging, policies, procedures and frameworks that foster flexibility and re-use

*            Coordinate, review, traffic and deploy content on conjunction with business, agencies and other stakeholders  

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

*            BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field

*            7+ years of relevant professional experience in website development, ideally in managing and developing within CMS-managed site environments

*            Seasoned, proven expertise in building responsive, scalable, robust, consumer-facing websites, cloud services and apps using modern library frameworks and web architecture components

*            Experience with managing and building out Drupal 8, including custom module and theme development, experience migrating to Drupal 8 from previous versions a plus.  Experience with Acquia or Lightning preferred

*            Experience working on a large website rebuild or re-platform project

*            Experience with MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, JSON

*            Experience with PHP 7 and programming concepts such as:

*            OOP (Object oriented Programming)

*            Services and Dependency Injection containers

*            Understanding of core Drupal API and concepts including:

*            Field API, Form API, Render API

*            Entities, Views, Fields, Routing, Database abstraction layer

*            Experience utilizing SOAP and REST APIs

*            Experience with the Twig Templating language

*            Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Node, React, or Angular

*            Experience with Apache Solr, Redis, Memcached, Tomcat

*            Knowledge of PHP, Symfony Framework, jQuery, Bootstrap a plus

*      ��     Knowledge of code versioning using Git or similar tools

*            Knowledge of JIRA, CI/CD tools a plus

*            Strong knowledge of Cloud technologies - AWS (preferred) or Azure, Middleware, Micro-services, Application development platforms, High Availability designs and technologies

*            Experience with Adobe Creative suite (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator)  a plus

*            Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments essential