Drupal Developer Job at YMCA of the USA

• Perform site-building activities, including creating and modifying views, contexts, and blocks to match functionality specified in wireframes and designs
• Evaluate designs, wireframes and other deliverables during the design and user experience phase for potential development issues and flag data model and/or feasibility challenges when needed
• Develop and implement custom modules in Drupal and perform code reviews
• Integrate Drupal with other systems
• Perform security and performance reviews of sites prior to deployments
• Communicate the intricacies of backend development challenges/issues, acting as a subject matter expert both internally across departments and externally with clients
• Strong knowledge of managing taxonomy
• Apply proactive approach to enhance user experience and provide continues site enhancement suggestions
• Apply architecture best practices, patterns, and standards to custom Drupal Product
• Maintain Drupal/Custom product roadmap and continue adding new features/capabilities to the roadmap
• Maintain and develop Drupal modules by gathering and understanding requirements as defined by business partners, designing and implementing solutions, and contributing them back into the YMCA open source community, Open Y
• Provide technical support by advising and implementing solutions for our internal business partners and the local
• YMCAs through investigating, tracking, and resolving support requests
• Implement new features and fix bugs pertaining to the software applications as requested by internal clients
• Gather requirements for, propose designs for, implement, test, and release technical solutions
• Ensure requirements and feature requests match the organizational needs and follow industry best practices.
• Organization needs are determined by Y-USAs strategic plans, departmental goals, and client requests
• Advocate with internal and external users for the adoption of the platform
• Follow established SDLC processes as well as suggest enhancements to the development team, leadership, and project managers to improve project workflows and team performance
• Keep up to date with changes in the software development industry
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications
 

• Advanced degree or certificate in Computer Science, Web Development, Programming or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience as a Technical Lead or Architect, ideally in a professional services or consulting environment with a demonstrable history of leading Drupal engineering teams
• Strong Drupal Back-end technical skills and familiarity across Front-end and DevOps
• Demonstrated experience developing custom platform/product using Drupal Framework
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Json
• Demonstrated experience working with PHP and JavaScript
• Comfortable with release management in environments with intensive processes
• Able to communicate technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Motivating and self-directed engineering team leader valuing: collaboration, listening, empathy, transparency, attention to detail, ownership, accountability, risk management
• Experience with implementing integrations with third party applications
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Experience with ensuring that website design, layout, and coding is optimized for search; troubleshooting technical SEO issues; implementing the latest SEO guidelines
• Experience with monitoring overall site health and security, and proactively eliminating security risks
  
  Other Preferred Qualifications
   
• Experience with Search API Solr module integration is preferred
• Exposure to Azure architecture, integration of search components
• Working experience on agile projects with quick sprint release cycles using Azure DevOps or other similar tools
• Have good exposure to CI/CD pipeline with Azure services and configuration management
• Familiar with Cloudflare customization, configuration, and best practices
• Commitment to the YMCA character development values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility is required