- Develops the scope for the application development process and governance function for the organization
- Develop milestones for the roadmap
- Obtains, evaluates and consolidates best practices from within existing Drupal application development areas, including vendor and in-house teams as well as from outside sources
- Work with interested parties to review and reach a consensus on policies to be established and governed within for all design and development activities going forward
- Establishes an inventory of approved technology and tools and processes to ensure adherence to use of these tools
- Define and implement processes for updates and possibly new software and development tools and retiring old software
- Coaches and mentors team members to operationalize and ensure adherence to the defined standards and policies
- Defines and implements periodic reviews to measure compliance to standards from all Drupal staff and vendors
- Participates in the evaluation and selection of new software development tools that project teams propose to introduce to the production environment
- Plans and delivers software platforms used across multiple products and organizational units
- Performs web design and production tasks using Dreamweaver, Web Content Management System (Drupal) and/or SharePoint tools
- Makes use of HTML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery programming languages as needed
- Creates and optimizes Section-508 compliant images and PDFs for the web using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, and Acrobat)
- Deploys new sites using a current template, including the configuration of associated files (navigation, heater, footer, etc.)
- Cleans up Drupal code, making certain that each page is W3C compliant and corrects any infrastructure issues
- Review pages after migration to ensure accuracy
- Performs QA reviews and all applicable testing before returning to client for final review, approval, and clearance
- Knows and continues to keep up-to-date on Section-508 accessibility requirements and ensures all web pages and web files are compliant
- Performs cross-browser testing and follows all internal approval and clearance processes before posting pages
- Offers suggestions on information architecture, user experience, search engine optimization, Section-508 compliance, use of graphics, mobile optimization, and other web best practices
- Reviews website statistics (using Google Analytics, etc.) and uses findings to improve search engine optimization and information architecture as well as to inform customers of site performance and use
- Attends web team meetings and provides valuable input and maintains strong, positive interoffice and client relations
- Represents team in cross-organizational workgroups, communities of practice, project teams, etc
- Uses MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and WinZip software to format and store files as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
- experience related At least three years of
- Previous Experience with JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, CSS3, Web Programming Skills
- Experience with 508 compliance
- Great Communication Skills
- A basic understanding of Security Principles
- Previous Experience working with Object-Oriented Design, Multimedia Content Development, and API creation and implementation
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must be able to obtain a favorably adjudicated Public Trust Clearance
Ideally, you will also have
- Previous Government Experience