Key Required Skills:

Drupal, PHP, Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), Agile Development, SOA/Microservice Architecture

Position Description:

• Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation web application using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:

o Content Management System (Drupal, WordPress)

o PHP

o Custom API development using Drupal

• 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 development and maintenance of multiple enterprise websites using CMS like Drupal.

• 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 appropriate technical level for audience

• All other duties as assigned or directed

Skills Requirements:

(Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.

• Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience

• 8 years of combined experience with modern software development using Drupal and PHP

• 8 years of combined experience web development and building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies

• 5 years of combined experience with Content Management Systems (Drupal, WordPress)

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

*** Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.

(Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• 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 with building responsive UIs with modern front-end technologies such as 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.

(Desired Skills)

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

• Experience with PaaS (Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes) and Docker containers.

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

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

• Basic understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns.

Education:

• Bachelor's and 8 years of experience, Master's and 5 years of experience or 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree

• Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.