Drupal Technical Lead

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 implementing

  decoupled (headless) Drupal

  architectures, 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 of

  Drupal's Configuration Management

  system to manage site configurations effectively across different environments and large multisite deployments.
• Experience in designing complex content workflows using

  Drupal's Workbench

  or other content moderation tools.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing

  user roles, permissions, and access control

  to enforce security best practices.
• Familiarity with Drupal's

  multilingual capabilities

  to manage content across different languages.
• Experience with

  multisite configurations

  for managing multiple websites from a single Drupal instance.
• Expertise in optimizing Drupal performance, including

  caching strategies

  using tools like

  Drupal Cache API, Varnish

  , and

  Memcached

  .
• Experience with

  database tuning

  and

  performance analysis

  to ensure Drupal applications run efficiently.
• Ability to identify and select

  contributed modules

  based on project needs and familiarity with evaluating module stability and support.

Bonus

• Experience contributing to the

  Drupal community

  , including writing patches or supporting contributed modules, is a plus.