Drupal - Technical Architect

Job Description

We re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success - and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:

• Establish high-level development strategy through module selection and configuration for an array of Drupal sites. Emphasis on platform- and site-wide approaches pertaining to integration, scalability, performance, and security considerations
• Serve as a hands-on leader while acting as technical consultant to internal stakeholders and clients when needed
• Lead maintenance, support and enhancement tasks for existing client websites. Be responsible for planning and executing highly effective and usable websites and digital experiences for our segment businesses and brands
• Enhance, de-bug and maintain an array of large-scale and complex Drupal-based websites, with the ability to share best practices and stay abreast of evolving and emerging technologies
• Partner cross-functionally with Business, Digital Marketing, Project Management, User Experience, Digital Platform and back-end teams to create world-class customer experiences using Agile/Scrum development practices and methodologies
• Work with clients to determine their business drivers, assess technical needs, and deliver high-quality, creative solutions and innovative implementations that meet stakeholder goals and requirements
• 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. Participate in testing and quality assurance activities.
• 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
• Anticipate issues and risks at the module level and escalate appropriately
• Disseminate technology best practices.
• Review, document and improve existing internal systems and development processes
• Work with senior developers in the adoption of new technologies within our technology practice
• Performa other tasks and responsibilities, as needed

YOU HAVE:

• Academic background: Bachelor s and/or Master s degree, or equivalent demonstrated work experience, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Web Development or similar
• 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.
• 7+ 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. Requires experience with integrations, in-depth knowledge of the platform and an understanding of modules/add-ons/extensions
• 7+ years of development in client side scripting (JavaScript, PHP, CSS, SQL HTML, Ajax, Json)
• 5+ years managing web application projects
• Solid foundational knowledge of Drupal best practices and architecture:
• Drupal 8 theming, theme layer, module system and experience writing or extending modules, JavaScript behaviors
• Knowledge of current industry standards related to user experience and design
• Handling common theme preprocessing tasks with PHP using Drupal best practices
• Experience in designing & improving operations using automation wherever possible. (auditing, testing, monitoring, reporting, fail overs etc.)
• Ability to perform complex Drupal development tasks including custom module development using the Drupal API system and hooks from major Drupal core systems
• Experience with implementation and adherence to accessibility standards (Section 508, WCAG)
• Experience Implementing SEO standards
• CSS preprocessors (SASS, Less)

Skills

• Drupal 8
• 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
• Web knowledge in terms of developed, secured and high-performance websites.
• Drupal 8.x, configuring control modules
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to present and influence views in a clear and compelling manner
• Ability to read and interpret documents, i.e., project scopes or proposals
• Ability to resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion
• Stays up-to-date on new and evolving technologies via formal training and/or self-paced learning

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 to clearly and comfortably view, interpret and process information via a computer monitor for extended periods during normal working hours is required
• Potential travel requirements are 3-5 trips per year (including international travel)

Keyskills :
javanetframeworkdeliverysql serverclient side scriptingapplication lifecycle managementclient sideweb developmentuser experienceweb applicationcreative designcomputer sciencetechnical designautomation toolssite developmentdigital marketing