Drupal Platform Technical Lead. at Confidential company

About the Job

Hi,

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I am looking for a candidate with experience as Drupal Platform Technical Lead.

Position Title: Drupal Platform Technical Lead

Location: Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid)

Duration: Long term

Key Required Skills:

Drupal, PHP, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), Agile Development, and 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:

Strong Experience as Drupal Platform Technical lead
Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation web application using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:
- Content Management System (Drupal, WordPress)
- PHP
- 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)
Act as a Drupal platform administrator, as requested by the project manager.
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.
10+ years of combined experience with modern software development using Drupal and PHP
10+ years of combined experience web development and building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies.
10+ 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).
Solid experience as Drupal Platform Technical lead
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:

60 - 65 /hour