Drupal Back-End Developer

Job Description

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

As a Drupal evangelist at nVent, you ll:

• Be responsible for working with clients to determine their business drivers, assess technical needs, and deliver high quality solutions.
• Modify existing code and write new custom code to power the functionality of an array of Drupal sites
• Act as the translator of customer business requirements and creative design artifacts into functional specifications and technical design specifications and work closely with the technical leads and their assigned development team to get the projects executed.
• Steward of innovation who can recommend ways to increase velocity/speed-to-marketing through streamlined processes as well as ways to improve customer experience through customer-focused design
• Lead client calls and software demonstrations with customers and key stakeholders.
• Contribute to and govern codes review process with team of developers, ensuring a stable and relatively bug-free environment.
• Maintain and govern code documentation, keeping in line with agile methodologies.
• Lead quality assurance and testing best practices, ensuring for all developed functionalities are tested within defined structure.
• Develop Object-Oriented (OO) code and/or provide maintenance and enhancements to existing code based upon a solid understanding of OO design.
• Estimate and plan releases for a CMS implementation.
• Anticipate issues and risks at the module level and escalate appropriately.
• Disseminate technology best practices and keep abreast of new Drupal technologies and standards.
• Work with senior developers in the adoption of new technologies within our technology practice.

YOU HAVE:

• Academic background in Bachelor s and/or Master s degree in computer science required or equivalent, demonstrated work experience
• Experience in eCommerce, retail or consumer packaged goods preferred
• Previous experience in or with Acquia Cloud (Drupal-tuned application lifecycle management suite with a complete infrastructure) to support Drupal deployment workflow processes from development and staging through to production
• 5+ years of Drupal web application and web site development, with experience building complex corporate web sites, eCommerce sites, portals, mobile/responsive sites with a high degree of customization and involving large data sets
• 5+ years of development in client side scripting (JavaScript, Ajax, Json; HTML, CSS ideal but not required)
• 3+ years managing web application projects
• Drupal
  • 8 theming, theme layer, module system and experience writing or extending modules, Javascript behaviors
• Object Oriented PHP
• Handling common theme preprocessing tasks with PHP using Drupal best practices
• Implementing, accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG)
• Implementing SEO standardsFamiliarity with DB and DB Modeling - in particular MySQL
• Experience working in cloud environments

Skills

• Drupal 8
• Web knowledge in terms of developed secure and high-performance websites.
• Drupal 8.x, configuring control modules
• Ensuring high-performance and availability
• Managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Work closely with front-end developers and customers to ensure an effective, visually appealing, functional and intuitive implementation
• Experience with developing, maintaining and improving DevOps pipelines and automation tools (such as GitLab, Gulp)
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and Test-Driven development methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to present and influence views in a clear and compelling manner
• Resolving and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion

Abilities to meet the physical and environmental demands:

• Ability to work with associates on a team under the supervision of a leader or work independently as necessary
• Ability to work across time zones in a multi-cultural environment
• The ability y to clearly and comfortably view, interpret and process information via a computer monitor for extended periods of time during normal working hours is required.
• Potential travel requirements are 3 - 5 trips per year (including international travel).

Keyskills :
working with clientsclient side scriptingapplication lifecycle managementfront endclient sideweb applicationcreative designcomputer sciencetechnical designautomation toolssite developmentquality assurancecommercial modelscustomer experience