Direct Technology is working with one of the hottest digital media studios in town. Right now we are helping them find a Sr. Drupal Developer to add to their team of show shopping development!
If you enjoy working hard in a playful, open environment and can juggle lots of projects at one time, then this full time position should be one you consider.
The Senior Drupal Developer will join the team that designs, develops, and supports entertainment sites across the globe for one of the studio’s largest clients. We are looking for a highly skilled individual who wants to work with industry leaders, a high profile client, and extremely motivated people. The ideal candidate is a Drupal expert with an eclectic skill set including back-end and front-end skills, solution design, content management, and 3rd party solution integration. As the Technical Lead, you will lead a small team of internal developers, oversee and train external developers, collaborate with hosting provider and define overall technical strategy and standards for a multi-site Drupal 7 framework.
The Day to Day:
• Coordinate all technical activity directly with internal and third party developers contributing to the Sites.
• Collaborate with customers and technology vendors to maximize opportunities in the Company’s web‐based presence.
• Participate in technical discussions with customers and vendors; understand the architecture of CMS systems and how to fully leverage features and functionality for high-impact content sites.
• Drive communication with Company’s hosting provider on issues pertaining to maintenance, performance tuning, scaling and site outages.
• Evangelize development and technical design principals across internal and external teams.
• Improve site management and development efficiency.
• Collaborate with team to troubleshoot blocking issues.
• Provide insight on usability for the Sites.
• Evaluate site traffic reports provided by hosting company.
• Oversee release management and configuration management.
• Work with customers and technology vendors to maximize opportunities in the Company’s web‐based presence.
• Communicate technical planning and strategy to all stakeholders.
• Provide up‐to‐date user guides for all developers.
What you need to bring:
• Experience working directly with customers to meet business objectives.
• 5+ years web application development experience.
• Proficiency with Drupal’s Coding Standards, approaches and common API’s.
• 4+ years PHP.
• Experience with MySQL (queries, bulk data import/export, etc.).
• Proficiency in HTML/CSS. Experience with modern web standards required (semantic markup, HTML5, mobile web).
• Ability to communicate proactively and collaborate with customers, vendors, and teammates.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Eligible to work in the United States.
To Stand Out in the Crowd:
• BA in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with multi-site Drupal installs.
• Extensive Drupal custom module development.
• Experience with jQuery in Drupal.
• Proficiency in multiple scripting and programming languages.
• Maintain or contribute to Drupal community modules.
• Understanding of bash/drush scripting,
• Experience with localized Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 sites.
Qualified candidates please send resume to: leskenazi@directtechnology.com
Thanks!