A leading global advertising firm is seeking to hire the under said.
The Role:
- The Drupal Technical Lead will lead the various development projects of web and/or mobile applications, from initiation through to completion by working cohesively with global internal stakeholders.
Key tasks and responsibilities include:
- Analyse the project requirement, functional specifications and work with development teams in building appropriate solutions
- Ensure development team builds reusable code and libraries
- Ensure technical feasibility of solutions
- Work cohesively with Project Managers, development and QA teams to ensure deliverables are to time and quality
- Mentor development teams in best practices and efficient ways of working
- Periodically review and guide development teams to use optimised code
- Staying abreast of digital methodologies and technologies in the industry, and ensure continuous learning and improvement of self and team
Requirements:
- Over 8 years of experience in Drupal 8/7/6
- Has relevant experience and played a similar role in the recent 3-5 years
- Should have managed a team of 5 or more developers as a team lead
- Acquia certified professional - Acquia Certified Site Builder (D8) or Acquia Certified Developer (D8)
Must have:
- Has proficient experience in PHP
- Has implemented projects on the Acquia platform
- Has strong technical writing skills
- Must have proven experience with multiple development frameworks, most importantly Drupal
- Understanding of using views, CCK, theme and module development within the Drupal environment
- Is currently still operating in a hands-on technical role including developing Drupal modules and administering Drupal sites
- Practical experience in building Drupal modules including multisite developments, such as for multiple-language localisation
- Has experience with DBMS such as MySQL and Oracle
- Has experience with installing and administering web servers such as Microsoft IIS and/or Apache
- Is familiar with, and has successfully implemented web applications which make use of open source technologies
- Has implemented products across multiple operating system environments including Unix, Linux and Windows
- Has experience customising COTs products
- Drupal setup, development, administration and configuration
- Drupal 8 hands-on custom module development experience including using drupal hooks
- Understanding of Entities API
- Drupal Theming experience
- Drupal multi-site Development/Implementation
- Demonstrable activity within the Drupal community
- Experience with the following contributed modules:
1. Views
2. Context or Panels
3. Features
4. Drupal Multi-lingual
5. Development/Implementation
Good to have:
- Has proven experience managing a product through the entire development lifecycle to include a successful implementation
- Software Development Lifecycle experience (requirements engineering, structured or object oriented design, integrated test, methodologies)
- Possesses significant knowledge of client/server and internet systems architectures and accurately suggests the use of the appropriate technology for the application
Preferred:
- Proactively thinks of solutions and efficiencies for projects and clients
- Has experience in working with offsite offices
- Has strong verbal communication skills
- Familiar with multiple development methodologies and develops and owns the SDLC and is responsible for managing technical risks and issues throughout the project
- Applies significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients
- Easily recognises system deficiencies and implements effective solutions
- Suggests alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and / or longer life
- Identifies reusable code required for our code library and ensures the high quality creation of the code
- Defines, communicates and enforces coding standards
- Assists in sales and proposal efforts from a technical perspective
- Promotes and coordinates technical knowledge harvesting within the organization
- Tracks and identifies new opportunities to improve our tools, processes and methodologies
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Drupal Lead - PHP Frameworks & Acquia Platform (8-16 yrs) (Workforce Wisdom)
