Lead architect/developer job description

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Position Title:
Drupal Architect - Development Lead


Reports to: Sr.
Director - Digital Enterprise Technology - Martech

Number of Direct Reports: 0



Position Summary:
The Digital MarTech Drupal Architect will be part of an agile digital team responsible for building Secure, high performance web Content management system-based marketing applications and experiences. The team’ s focus is on driving a culture of Digital Transformation, delivering mission critical information to our members, customers and potential customers in an intelligent and personalized experience. We accomplish that by collaborating with business stakeholders, development team members, enterprise architects, security/networking resources and key vendors. Being able to work seamlessly with these team members and resources in an effective collaborative way is critical to this position.


Key Accountabilities:
As a Digital MarTech Drupal architect, be a key member of the development team responsible to Develop, Modify and Test complex software applications according to specifications. Coordinate with Product Owner, Digital Architect, Sr Test lead and Business product lead to understand requirements, groom user stories with other developers and maintain backlog with proper scenarios to meet definition of ready. Responsible to analyze stakeholder needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints working with the teams’ developers Responsible to work with UX resources for the design refinements as per the Drupal behavior requirements. Responsible to Confer with systems analysts, engineers, developers / engineers and others to assist in the design of the Drupal CMS based applications and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Recommend best practice Drupal based solutions meeting / exceeding the functional, security, performance, compliance requirements (applications include web and headless APIs built on the Acquia Drupal 9 Content management system) Responsible for guiding / recommending continuous enhancement and operation of DEV-SEC-OPS Aquia Pipelines CI/CD platform Collaborate and guide our developers performing root cause analysis for critical issues and solutioning the issue resolution. Guide the development team in implementing any risk mitigation needed to address any security challenges and in maintaining a consistently low risk profile across our applications and ecosystem.
Experience:

. BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field, or equivalent industry experience.
· Thorough understanding of Drupal 9 development and its architecture.
· Expert in PHP and Object-Oriented Programming and Symphony MVC Framework.
· Expert in using composer.
· Experience with Drupal 9 Module Developments and troubleshooting with Contributed Modules
· Experience with BLT, Drush, Drupal Features, Configuration Management
· Expertise with Drupal profile management
. Expertise in designing Drupal integrations with external systems / applications utilizing best practices for security, error handling, performance and maximizing the user experience
· Experience with applications built on the Acquia Cloud Site Factory (ACSF) and Acquia Cloud Enterprise (ACE) platforms strongly preferred
· Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, JQuery and Twig templates
· Experience with GIT version control system
· Experience with Acquia, DAM or other Digital Asset management system is a plus
· Expertise with Automated SW test tools, Software QA processes
. Expertise in all aspects of the SDLC DEV-SEC-OPS and able to execute development, testing, deployment, security tool integration
. Experience with Secure Website / Drupal networking
. Familiarity with SSL and CloudFlare WAF / CDN a plus
. Experience in Web application security best practices and Drupal SECKIT
. Excellent communication, collaboration and teamwork skills

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Suitability:

DHS EOD

Public Trust/Other Required:

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Description:

Join the Leadership Team supporting the Office of Intelligence & Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security. As the lead for Cloud Engineering, you will lead efforts to:

* Work collaboratively with team to receive, analyze, and respond to customer requirements and provides technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies of high complexity
* Research potential programming needs and required programming languages
* Provide programming experience to creatively design software
* Utilize industry-accepted testing methods troubleshoot flaws
* Work with different teams and departments to ensure code quality
* Create reports and present development updates to teams and stakeholders
* Customize existing code to ensure efficiency and functionality
* Ensure programming and code changes are accurately documented
* Provides guidance and leadership to less-experienced cloud development personnel

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: BA/BS (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or other relevant discipline) and 8+ years of relevant experience

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

COVID-19 Vaccination: GDIT does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, GDIT may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.