Drupal Architect

Role : Drupal Architect

Location : Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Coimbatore

Responsibilities :

1) He/she will work with the clients and understand the project requirements and will be provide a blueprint or solution design document for any tactical project or System Integration projects and ensure standard development procedures are followed.

2) Provide functional and/or technical expertise to plan, analyse, define and support the delivery of future functional and technical capabilities for an application or group of applications.

3) Prior experience building, leading and architecting Drupal applications and another CMS technologies.

4) Must have knowledge of or experience with other CMS technologies and/or open-source technologies.

5) Must have knowledge of or experience with Cloud technologies, DevOps, Microservices.

6) Must have knowledge of or experience with Acquia Cloud Platform.

7) Good to have knowledge of or experience with other Acquia products such as Acquia CDP, Acquia DAM, Acquia Site Factory, Acquia Campaign Studio.

8) Ability to negotiate mutually agreeable outcomes with clients, partners and Acquia stakeholders.

9) Ability to perform complex Drupal development tasks including custom module development using the Drupal API system and hooks from major Drupal core systems.

10) Must be a self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced work environment.

11) Strong problem-solving abilities, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple projects.

12) Assist in facilitating impact assessment efforts and in producing and reviewing estimates for client work requests.

13) Should be able to help in presales by providing solution architecture, assumptions and estimations of business requirements in an RFP.

14) Should be able to design and implement external integrations with Drupal and other CMS solution.

15) Should lead by example and be a coder by following best practices and design patterns.

16) Effectively communicate architecture and design to the development team and should review the pull requests from developers to make sure that the quality of deliverables is high.

17) Performs verbal and written communication with Customer; performs verbal and written communication with Technical and Non-Technical persons; responds professionally to Customer's requests.

18) Can manage own tasks; communicates status to- practice leads as warranted; completes tasks on-time and within budget.

19) Well versed in designing and implementing headless, hybrid and head-on design patterns as per business requirements.

20) Excellent in client server cache architecture including CDN and should be able to debug issues end to end and help team define end to end cache strategy to make site performant.

21) Should be able to design & implement Non-functional requirements including performance & scalability

Skills & Qualifications :

1) Minimum 10+ years of overall experience.

2) Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience implementing Drupal CMS.

3) Minimum 4-5 years of experience in design, develop and support of large-scale web application development, AEM deployment architecture.

4) More than 7 years of Software Programming.

5) Strong knowledge and working experience with PHP development is a MUST.

6) Good knowledge and working experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks

7) Experience with REST and SOAP web services.

8) Experience in developing build script using Composer.

9) Proficiency with complex IT/software solutions is a must.

10) Strong process development skills; ability to transform best practices and prospect requirements into highly efficient and executable business processes.

11) Excellent verbal and written communication and articulation skills.

12) Ability to apply creative thinking and sound reasoning, and to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.

13) Strong interpersonal skills. Must be able to work independently and function as a strong team player.

14) Proactive, detail-oriented and capable of handling a significant volume of work.

15) Must be able to demonstrate resourcefulness, motivation, initiative.

16) Results oriented, outstanding attention to detail, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines. Attention to Detail.

17) Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies.

18) Strong leadership, presentation skills and Experience in mentoring and coaching small/mid-sized teams.