Drupal Platform Technical Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION

**Job Title : Drupal Platform Technical Lead**

**Location : Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid)**

**Duration : Long Term**

**Note: 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.**

**Key Required Skills:**

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

**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.
**_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.

**_Required Skills_**_:_

- 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.