Drupal Developer - Herndon, United States - latitude

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    latitude Herndon, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Growing government contractor looking to bring on a Drupal Developer. Some telecommute options. Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.

    Responsibilities:

    • Provide Drupal development, programming, and configuration on custom application build and support engagements.
    • Keep informed on Drupal development best practices and coding standards.
    • Provide timely feedback to Project Managers, Drupal Architects, and customers on the status of assigned tasks.
    • Unit test assigned features to ensure proper functionality, both backend and frontend, prior to committing to the development branch pull request.
    • Analyze written specifications and configure Drupal features that function within the specified scope.
    • Offer technical solutions to customers and Lead Drupal Architect when unforeseen challenges occur during development sprints.
    • Attend weekly status meetings to dialogue with project stakeholders about the status of assigned deliverables.
    • Awareness and understanding of project budget and timelines in deliverables. Ensuring to communicate estimates and changes in scope/estimation.

    Minimum Qualifications:

    • US Citizen.
    • Ability to obtain a Public Trust.
    • Bachelor's degree in technical discipline and a minimum of 8-10 years of Drupal development experience.
    • Must see the "big picture" of a Drupal project and have a well-rounded web skillset.
    • Proven real world Drupal 8/9 experience.
    • Must be eager and passionate about Drupal community involvement and open source. (must be able to provide id)
    • Experience with Drupal backend development, particularly module development, content and data migration, and configuration management.
    • Expertise with HTML5, object-oriented PHP programming, MySQL and other SQL-based databases.
    • Expertise with Unix/Linux.
    • Experience with Symfony and Twig development, REST services, cloud hosting platforms, shell scripting, and JavaScript.
    • Familiarity with Git and Drupal development technologies such as Drush, Configuration Management, Views, etc.
    • A team player but can work independently as required.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and take on additional parallel assignments.

    Required Technology Experience:

    • Proficient in PHP, Drupal, Drupal Site Building and Administration, Drupal Custom Module Development, Drupal theming, Drupal Community Participation, Symfony, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS (SCSS)

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Acquia certified Drupal developer or backend specialist.
    • Basic understanding of Decoupled Drupal architectures.
    • Experience contributing to and maintaining open-source projects.
    • Understanding of efficient deployment workflows.
    • Experience working in a professional services business.
    • Knowledge of SOLR or another document-based search engine.
    • Master's degree in technical discipline.
    • Writing and editorial experience.

    Preferred Tool Experience:

    • Experience with Acquia hosting, BLT (build and deployment tools) and Acquia Cloud Site Factory
    • Experience with Agile and Jira.
    • Experience with automated testing frameworks and Continuous Integration.
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