Description
Drupal Developer - initial 12 month contract - FEB 2021 START - Outside IR35 - London Based contract
Current digital estate is built using Open Source Technology which will not be supported post November 2022. Alongside that, the digital landscape for users and our administration has changed significantly since our last major site update six years ago. So this needs to be either upgraded/replaced before then.
Key Skills and Experience
- Delivering large-scale content sites built with Drupal 8/9, using cloud technologies to deliver scalable, secure, reliable and performance optimisation for web applications.
- Using 3rd party modules to accelerate development and reduce costs.
- Using reusable/robust estate wide features and shared code to build a maintainable system.
- Developing custom modules to deliver bespoke functionality.
- Delivering a content editing experience that is both flexible and friendly to content editors.
- Using digital pattern libraries to deliver a consistent & responsive website Front End.
- Minimizing technical debt and ensuring that a site remains maintainable as it grows in scale and feature-set.
- Implementing content personalization.
- Integrating Drupal with other services and technologies.
- Experience in Java and when it's a more suitable tech to use than Drupal.
- Optimising user experience in response to data and user testing.
- Optimising code for search.
- Using Infrastructure as code technologies to quickly provision idempotent environments
- Experience using Test Driven Development model for delivery.
- Experience of migrating content/data from a multi-platform web estate.
- Experience in meeting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 to AA standard.
- Experience in working within the customers standard terms and conditions for software delivery, including compliance with regulation applicable to security and data protection (with the Supplier being the data processor).
- Experience in automating workflow tasks such as testing and deployment with CI/CD processes.
- Experience in using agile methodologies for delivering time sensitive and complex digital services to deadline and budget.
- Creating and maintaining technical documentation.
Lawrence Harvey is acting as an Employment Business in regards to this position.