Senior Drupal Developer

31st March, 2025

Role: Senior Drupal Developer.
Location: Woodlawn, MD - SSA facility.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Drupal, PHP, Agile Development, and SOA/Microservice architecture.

• Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation web applications using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies: Content Management System (Drupal, WordPress), PHP, Custom API development using Drupal.

• Experience with Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Acquia- Drupal Hosting Solution.

• 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).

• Senior-level experience in developing and maintaining multiple enterprise websites using CMS like Drupal.

• Strong experience with HTML/CSS & JavaScript.

• Experience with CDN and Acquia- Drupal Hosting Solution.

• 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 an appropriate technical level for the audience

• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities needed.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.

• A master's or Doctorate may substitute for the required experience.

• 10+ years of combined experience with modern software development using Drupal and PHP.

• 10+ years of combined experience in web development and building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies.

• 10+ years of combined experience with Content Management Systems (Drupal, WordPress).

• Solid understanding of modern PHP frameworks (Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, Zend).

• 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 building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies like 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.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:
Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud platforms; AWS cloud certifications.

• Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.

• Preferred experience integrating/establishing advanced search capabilities (AWS Kendra).

• Basic understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.
Selected candidate must be on-site five days a week in Woodlawn, MD

Security Clearance:
US citizenship and Public Trust eligibility.