Drupal Architect Job at Slalom

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap for enterprise Drupal platforms, balancing consistency, scalability, and the needs of business stakeholders
• Lead the design and implementation of new features, shared modules, and tooling, applying Drupal and development best practices
• Plan and execute site builds, migrations, and integrations, including content, data, and third-party services
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and availability, including caching strategy, safe rollout of changes, and incident response
• Work with technical team members and vendors to manage hosting environments and infrastructure
• Partner with business stakeholders and product and program managers to translate priorities into technical plans, estimates, and delivery schedules
• Drive security and compliance practices across production and non-production environments
• Oversee the software development lifecycle and release process, and mentor and guide developers on the team
• Communicate status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements and qualifications

• At least seven years of professional experience with Drupal, including recent experience with Drupal 10 or later
• Expert-level Drupal back-end skills: object-oriented PHP, Symfony components, Drupal APIs, custom modules, and Composer
• Ability to architect enterprise Drupal solutions, including data, display, and information architecture
• Strong understanding of relational databases such as MySQL, and of performance tuning and caching
• Good understanding of Drupal theming, including Twig, theme hooks and suggestions, and preprocess functions
• Solid grasp of Drupal site building and configuration management, and of web accessibility standards
• Proficiency with Git and modern CI/CD and deployment workflows
• Familiarity with integrating Drupal with third-party services and enterprise systems
• Demonstrated technical leadership: setting direction, mentoring engineers, and making sound decisions under pressure
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile workflows
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work with technical and non-technical team members and vendors