Back End Drupal Developer

Back End Drupal Developer

Technical Skills with more than 10 Years of Experience

DrupalPHP (Programming Language)

Role Description:

We are currently looking to add an experienced Drupal CMS back-end developer to support development and maintenance activities for the Drupal content management system (CMS) that powers a Federal Agency's intranet and public-facing websites.

The successful candidate will perform the following:

• Create and maintain custom modules, based on community best practices and coding standards, to extend Drupal’s CMS functionality

• Integrate third-party APIs and services with Drupal

• Identify bottlenecks and optimize code for speed and efficiency

• Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities

• Conduct unit tests to ensure code changes comply with documented acceptance criteria

• Support clients and team members in debugging issues, resolving errors, and ensuring smooth site operation

• Provide innovative ideas for improving and extending the solution, including the use of contrib and custom modules

• Work closely with other project team members using an agile workflow, communicate constantly, and attend key client or deliverable meetings as needed

• Report regular status, escalate any major decisions, issues, and risks to the appropriate team member

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

• At least six (6) years of recent experience with:

• Developing Drupal websites (including significant Drupal 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x experience)

• PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery/AJAX, Symfony, TWIG, REST, JSON

• Site building including views, administration, taxonomy

• Custom module development following best practices and industry design patterns

• Set-up and configuration of Drupal sites, including evaluation of contributed modules

• Experience with configuration, creation, and modification of modules including hooks

• Experience with administering Git, and working with Git branches

• Experience working with debuggers

• Familiar with basic visual design principles, basic Drupal theming

• Ability to work independently to assess and address any issues

• Prior experience working on a cross-functional team using an agile methodology

• Experience with implementing and modifying Apache Solr configurations and customizing search relevancy for Drupal sites

• Experience implementing Drupal multilingual/internationalization (i18n) capabilities, including the following modules:

• Configuration of translations - Content translation - Interface translation

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Drupal multisite and headless Drupal implementations

• Knowledge of React and GraphQL

• Experience with OpenLDAP/SimpleSAML/OAuth

• Experience with parsing and generating XML

• Prior experience with JIRA and Confluence

Education Level: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Work Location: Remote

Clearance Required: Public Trust - Full Clearance

Key Skills

• PHP