About University at Albany:

Established in 1844 and designated a University Center of the State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service engages a diverse student body of more than 17,900 students in nine schools and colleges across three campuses.

Located in Albany, New York, New York State's capital, the University is convenient to Boston, New York City and the Adirondacks.

Job Description:

The University at Albany's Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM) is seeking a Drupal Web Developer to be part of the Marketing Services team. This position will build, maintain, and optimize the university's CMS (Drupal) and associated tools for use by the campus community. The dev/ops position serves as a system architect, working independently to understand, propose and build software solutions, including Drupal modules and themes that balance users' needs, the university needs, and CMS best practices. This position will help serve as liaison between Information Technology Services (ITS) and the University Office of Communications and Marketing.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Mange Drupal security patches and lead migration to new versions of the CMS software
• Independently develop Drupal modules and templates
• Regularly monitor website performance and analytics and propose changes to optimize technological performance to leadership
• Integrate and expose enterprise data via APIs and other data feeds
• Coordinate between team building sites and IT Services to ensure successful site launches, identify and communicate new system requirements to ITS (PHP versions, etc.)
• Document systems and procedures surrounding the CMS 

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or related field from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education or internationally recognized organization. 
• 3-5 years developing for an enterprise CMSExperience in:
  • Drupal Administration, template development
  • Git, Composer, Continuous Integration methodologies
  • HTML5/CSS3
  • Responsive Web Design
  • JavaScript, JQuery
  • PHP & Twig
  • WCAG / Accessibility
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Clear understanding of the online space
• Self-starter; ability to work independently and consistently meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects at one time, including both short and long-term efforts
• Applicants must address in their application the ability to work with culturally diverse populations.

Professional Rank and Salary Range: Senior Programmer-Analyst, SL-4