DirectClient: City of Austin
Title: Drupal Architect
Location: Austin, Texas
Duration: Until 9/30/2021 with possible extension
Last date for submission: April 30, 2021 (9.00 AM-CST)
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
The City of Austin Digital Services team is looking for an experienced, skilled, and self-driven Drupal Architect to help build next generation customer experience solutions with focus on web and mobile websites, content delivery and other digital technology. This position will be responsible for the development and maintenance of the City of Austin's website. This includes creating architectures, solutions, designs, builds and metrics while working closely with other IT team members and business partners. This lead role is accountable for the technical solutions lifecycle while ensuring the solutions meet IT architecture best practices, compliance and security.
This role will be responsible to ensure technical development is on track, create level of effort estimates, work with clients directly, and lead developers by encouraging productivity, quality and accountability. The efforts will be focused to meet development schedules, stated estimates, technical specifications and design requirements. Strong communication and collaboration skills will be utilized working with both technical and non-technical teams. Work will be fast paced, dealing with shifting priorities and will have a meaningful impact in the services offered to Austin residents. Responsibility will include leading Drupal developers with activities such as code reviews and continuous improvement for best practices in code and architecture.
Required Qualifications:
-Experience implementing system architectures and web deployments for high traffic Drupal sites hosted in Amazon Web Services
-Experience and strong working knowledge in full LAMP stack, Object Oriented Programming in PHP principles and core Symfony fundamentals, including Plugin development, Dependency Injection, Routing, and Service definitions.
-Experienced in the optimization and fine tuning of Drupal
-Experience with the implementation of Varnish, Solr and other CRM integrations
-Experience with front-end best practices and can effectively use JavaScript to build end-to-end solutions.
-Experience leading developer teams, conducting code reviews and mentoring developers
-Experience translating complex technical requirements into functional software and related system integrations.
-Experience in Amazon Web Services Ecosystem (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)
-Solid understanding of the entire container lifecycle - Kubernetes, Docker
-Drupal and/or AWS Certification is a plus
-Strong communication skills ( both verbal and written) and excellent presentation skills