Drupal Technical Lead

Job Description Key Role Responsibilities - Lead and mentor a team of developers, providing technical guidance, support, and expertise. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to define technical requirements and project milestones. - Drive the technical direction, architecture, and implementation strategies for decoupled CMS projects. - Ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and quality guidelines throughout the development process. - Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance web applications using modern web technologies. - Implement decoupled CMS solutions, integrating front-end frameworks with back-end CMS platforms. - Design and develop APIs, Microservices, and other server-side components to support decoupled architectures. - Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration between the presentation layer and the decoupled CMS. - Demonstrate strong proficiency in decoupled CMS platforms, specifically Drupal, Sitecore, or Umbraco. - Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and advancements in web development, decoupled architectures, and CMS technologies. - Provide technical guidance and recommendations for selecting the most appropriate CMS platform based on project requirements. - Work closely with project managers to define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation. - Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and other Agile development processes. - Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions. Key Candidate Requirements - Proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer, with a focus on decoupled CMS solutions. - Strong background in developing web applications using modern front-end and back-end technologies. Skills: - Proficiency in decoupled CMS platforms, ideally Drupal. - Strong expertise in front-end technologies such as JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and front-end frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js. - Experience with server-side technologies such as Node.js, PHP, .NET, or Java. - Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and other API integration techniques. - Knowledge of database systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and proficiency in SQL. - Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of developers. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. - Ability to provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and promote best practices. - Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities. - Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). - Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. - Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. - Understanding of agile software development methodologies. Drupal Specific Requirements Drupal Development Expertise: - Extensive experience in building and maintaining Drupal-based web applications, with proficiency in Drupal 9+ - Strong understanding of Drupal's core API, hooks, and custom module development. - Proven ability to develop reusable Drupal modules and themes to meet specific project requirements. - Expertise in leveraging Drupal's theming layer and creating responsive, adaptive themes that integrate seamlessly with modern front-end frameworks. - Experience implementingdecoupled (headless) Drupalarchitectures, including building and consuming APIs to deliver content to front-end applications. - Familiarity with GraphQL or JSON for integrating Drupal as a content repository with front-end JavaScript frameworks. Drupal Configuration experience: - Strong understanding ofDrupal's Configuration Managementsystem to manage site configurations effectively across different environments and large multisite deployments. - Experience in designing complex content workflows usingDrupal's Workbenchor other content moderation tools. - Proficiency in setting up and managinguser roles, permissions, and access controlto enforce security best practices. - Familiarity with Drupal'smultilingual capabilitiesto manage content across different languages. - Experience withmultisite configurationsfor managing multiple websites from a single Drupal instance. - Expertise in optimizing Drupal performance, includingcaching strategiesusing tools likeDrupal Cache API, Varnish, andMemcached. - Experience withdatabase tuningandperformance analysisto ensure Drupal applications run efficiently. - Ability to identify and selectcontributed modulesbased on project needs and familiarity with evaluating module stability and support. Bonus - Experience contributing to theDrupal community, including writing patches or supporting contributed modules, is a plus.