Drupal Developer at Cohesive Digital

Role: Drupal Developer with 

Location: Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid)/ Need Only Locals.

Duration: Long term

Key Required Skills:

Drupal, PHP, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), Agile Development, SOA/Microservice Architecture

*** Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.

Position Description:

• Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation web application using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:

o            Content Management System (Drupal, WordPress)

o            PHP

o            Custom API development using Drupal

• Provide software expertise in one or more of these areas: PHP application integration, Drupal, service oriented architectures (SOA), security, business process management/business rules processing, module integration, user experience (UX) and accessibility (Section 508/WCAG/USDS Web Standards)
• Senior Level experience in development and maintenance of multiple enterprise websites using CMS like Drupal.
• Investigate and repair application defects regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
• All other duties as assigned or directed

Skills Requirements:

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
• Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
• 8+ years of combined experience with modern software development using Drupal and PHP
• 8+ years of combined experience web development and building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies
• 5+ years of combined experience with Content Management Systems (Drupal, WordPress)
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Solid understanding of modern PHP frameworks (Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, Zend).
• Basic knowledge of PHP's type system (typed properties and union types).
• Basic experience with concurrent programming (pthreads, pcntl, ReactPHP).
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, and Oracle), SQL, and ORM technologies (RedBeanPHP, Doctrine, and Eloquent).
• Solid experience with automated unit testing, TDD, BDD, and associated technologies (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Mockito, Behat / Cucumber, Selenium, and Karma/Jasmine).
• Development experience with building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies such as React, or Angular.
• Solid knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, Modern JavaScript, Typescript, JQuery, and CSS).
• Basic understanding of DevOps and tools (Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube).
• Experience with API development & monitoring tools (Ready API, Swagger, Splunk, Dynatrace)
• Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills

• Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud platforms; AWS cloud certifications.
• Experience with PaaS (Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes) and Docker containers.
• Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
• Preferred experience integrating / establishing advance search capabilities (AWS Kendra).
• Basic understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• An in-depth knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA).

Education:

• Bachelor's and 8+ years of experience, Master's and 5+ years of experience or 12+ years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.