Mid-Level Drupal Architect

1. The U.S. House of Representatives (House) creates and supports hundreds of websites and application for Members, Committees and Leadership (MCL) offices. Web Systems also manages several transition support websites built in Drupal. Today, the preferred web platform for the House is Drupal, with most current websites on Drupal 10. Web Systems manages these MCL sites as well as manages internal websites for the 10,000 House staff. In addition, Web Systems develops, maintains, and manages applications where other legacy technologies exist. These applications facilitate web operations as well as provide added functionality with maintenance support provided to the MCL Offices.

2. The House is seeking a Mid-Level Drupal Architect contractor for Web Services to help rebuild the transition support website in Drupal 10. The ideal candidate must have 6-8 years of Drupal Development experience. The candidate should have experience working with tools required for an Enterprise Drupal solution such as Drush, Docker, Lando, Ansible, Twig, PHP framework like Laravel, Kubernetes, Memcache and Varnish.

3. It is anticipated that this will be a fully remote position; however, candidates should be capable of reporting on site should the need arise.

4. Candidates are not required to be U.S. citizens; however, they must reside within the U.S. and all work must be performed domestically.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Work 40 hours per week, 9 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, with a half hour for lunch. Adjustments to this schedule must be authorized in advance by the House s designated COR

2. Work effectively and collaboratively with Web Systems colleagues on assigned projects and activities.

3. Maintain professional relationships with customers, management, colleagues and deliver high-quality customer service.

4. Lead design and implementation of Drupal Sites

5. Recommending, designing and implementing the appropriate architecture and application design for multiple projects

6. Defining transition steps from the current to the future state application architecture, including interoperability

7. Defining Functional, System and Architectural requirements

8. Install and Configure Drupal Environments on-premise and cloud environments

9. Develop new Drupal 10/11 Modules and extend existing Drupal Modules

10. Debug and resolve Drupal related issues

11. Deploy and manage releases for Drupal Applications

12. Assist Designers to build Drupal themes

13. Work with Web Systems management to continually improve and evolve capabilities that align with established, standardized technologies

14. Recommend to management development approaches and strategies for applications

and services provided to House customers.

15. Work closely with management, project managers and members of the Development Team to develop detailed specification documents.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technology and solution leadership of complex Drupal based systems, including system and data migration;

2. Maintain Drupal 10 codebase and ensure updates are applied as per security standards;

3. Ensure Web applications are following security guidelines;

4. Exposure to the Drupal 10 codebase would be required;

5. Create custom modules leveraging Drupal hooks and plugins;

6. Install, test and deploy patches to the core CMS and modules;

7. Research, develop, test, and implement product backlog items (user stories and defects), including analysis and reporting, on the prioritized project backlog within schedule, ensure third-party libraries are downloaded and maintained;

8. Support the deployment process, including review of logs for errors after code deployment to all environments;

9. Collaborate with project managers and other team members to design and estimate timeline for custom Drupal-based solutions;

10. Ensure new features developed are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508;

11. Maintain and support local development environment using Lando; and

12. Adopt and architect infrastructure as code for Drupal applications.

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

1. 5 years of experience in analyzing, designing, and deploying an Enterprise Architecture

2. Experience developing web solutions in Drupal and PHP implementations in a LAMP environment.

3. Ability to architect enterprise Drupal solutions including data, display, and information architecture.

4. Experience working with DevOps tools such as Docker and Jenkins

SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or related Field;

2. Minimum 6 years experience in different versions of Drupal and 2 years of experience in Drupal 10;

3. Minimum 5 years of experience with PHP;

4. Experience working with Multisite Drupal setup;

5. Minimum 2 years of experience working with Virtualization and Docker;

6. Experience with automation and configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible);

7. Proficiency in Linux administration;

8. Extensive experience building custom Drupal modules from specification;

9. Knowledge and experience with Agile and Test-Driven development methodologies;

10. Excellent communication skills (oral and written);

11. Strong HTML/CSS/JS skills;

12. Working knowledge of Git; and

13. Expert Level SQL Knowledge