Senior Architect

Kalamuna; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital technology firm is seeking a Senior Architect to drive technical strategy and practices. This role is crucial for leading technical discovery and providing value to mission-driven clients. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Drupal, web standards, and must demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills. The position offers flexibility to work remotely, and a commitment to continuous learning and development is expected.

Benefits

Paid holidays

PTO

Health insurance

Retirement funds with 3% match

Qualifications

• Candidates must have strong accountability and work ethic.
• Experience with Git and branching is required.
• Deep expertise in Drupal and code standards is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical requirements gathering and define implementation strategies.
• Advocate for common processes to deliver impactful solutions.
• Participate in continuous learning and mentoring junior teammates.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work independently

Attention to detail

Understanding Agile methodologies

Familiarity with modern website security best practices

Mastery of web standards

WordPress Migration Experience

Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, PHP

Deep expertise with Drupal API

Understanding of website security, performance and scalability

Tools

Git

Local development tools

Drupal cloud hosting providers (Pantheon, Acquia)

Job description

Foster interactions, grow impact, see the future.

The Senior Architect contributes to technical strategy and practices of the Kalamuna team, proposes architectural direction and implementation strategy, and often acts as a technical lead on web development projects.

You’ll lead technical discovery and work with the design team in early project phases to build a bridge to implementation.

You will consider technology ecosystems, integrations, and the general solutioning of problems with an eye towards scope and a goal to provide value to our mission-driven clients.

You will lead technical requirements gathering and define implementation strategies.

You are an advocate for common processes and solutions so that we can deliver impactful solutions, achieve the benefits of automation, and excel as a team.

You are helping assess and adopt new technologies, and deprecate old ones.

You are an innovator, both in project spaces and outside of them, by participating in research and development activities.

You engage in continuous learning, enjoy teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring more junior teammates.

This role reports to the Director of Technology.

Candidates for this full-time (32-40h / wk) remote position must reside in the US or Canada.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills.
• Can talk with clients.
• Able to work independently while staying in sync with the rest of the team.
• Can brainstorm and find solutions that fit not only client needs but also needs of your team.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong accountability and work ethic is a must.
• Understand Agile methodologies and scope tasks and estimate effort to solve problems within project budget.
• Familiarity with modern website security best practices for WordPress.
• Mastery of web standards and best practices, particularly the ability to write meaningful, semantic HTML that responds across devices and breakpoints, degrades gracefully, and meets (or exceeds) the latest accessibility guidelines.
• WordPress Migration Experience.
• Mastery of web fundamentals.
• Know how to bend the internet to your will using HTML, CSS, JS, PHP.
• Provide work samples (projects, code, URLs).
• Live, dream, and breathe Drupal.
• Strong believer in open source and established Drupal community member.
• Deep expertise with Drupal API and module development.
• Know when to site build, and when to get deep into code.
• Broad experience with Drupal cloud hosting providers (Pantheon, Acquia) and integrating technologies via APIs and web services.
• Employed DevOps strategies, continuous integration, testing, deployment, owning the toolchain.
• Excellent Git skills and branching wizardry.
• Familiarity with local development tools.
• Comfortable to set up and maintain your own development environment.
• Understanding of Drupal and PHP coding standards and best practices.
• Deep expertise and understanding of component-based development and architectural patterns.
• Experience meeting accessibility best practices and testing.
• Understanding of website security, performance and scalability.
• Bonus: strong writing skills.
• Bonus: CRM integrations.
• Bonus: frontend development frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.
• Bonus: Node.js as a compiler.
• Bonus: Other platforms like WordPress, Gatsby, decoupled models and architectures.
• Bonus: Search technologies like SOLR and Elastic Search.
• Bonus: SEO concepts and methodologies for improving organic search ranking.
• Bonus: Digital analytics, particularly Google Analytics and Tag Manager.
• Bonus: QA practices, automated testing and regression testing.

Benefits

• Paid holidays.
• PTO.
• Paid bereavement leave.
• Parental leave.
• Health insurance.
• Long and short-term disability.
• Continued learning & travel stipend.
• Equipment fund.
• Retirement funds with 3% match.

Working With Us

Kalamuna is driven by a civic spirit to help socially impactful institutions, nonprofits, and governments better communicate with constituents and do right by the people they serve.

We bring digital communications to life for organizations as varied as Fair Trade USA, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Environmental Defence Fund, the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Kalamuna’s mission is to empower our clients with the research, strategy, design, and technology that will transform their organizations to better serve the needs of their audiences and communities.

Kalamuna aligns itself in this manner to make each of our client’s missions our mission.

We seek to be impactful, not only for our clients and partners but for the social good of our communities.

We’re committed to your excellence and continued development; we’re in this together.

Flexibility and Accommodations

We offer flexibility in work hours and accommodations.

When pandemic-free, we organize company-wide gatherings like team building workshops, conferencing, and additional fun.

Diversity

Commitment to Diversity. Kalamuna is committed to eradicating institutional discrimination and bias and to uplifting the lived experiences of all underrepresented communities.

As such, Kalamuna welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from people of color; women; LGBTQ2S+ people; immigrants or refugees; people who are differently-abled; and people from low- or moderate-income backgrounds.

EEO Statement

Kalamuna is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, disability status, veteran status, military obligations, marital status and policy party affiliation, or on any other basis that complies with applicable laws.

No exceptions.