Drupal Lead - Full Remote

goPro Consultancy Group ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

goPro Consultancy Group ltd. is seeking an experienced Senior Drupal Lead for a REMOTE contract role based in New York, with 3+ years of lead experience. The candidate will manage large Drupal projects, lead teams of developers, and collaborate with clients to translate requirements into technical solutions.

Required skills include Drupal 7/8/9, PHP, JavaScript, REST APIs, Git, and CI/CD. The role expects strong English communication and long-term engagement with full remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing large Drupal-based web applications (7/8/9) with custom views/modules.
• 2+ years leading teams of Drupal developers on maintenance or new projects.
• Experience gathering client requirements and translating them into technical specs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for web operations and maintenance and new Drupal projects.
• Provide team leadership and manage project delivery across multiple developers/environments.
• Lead the SDLC: analysis, design, configuration, programming, and unit testing for Drupal.
• Collaborate with clients to document requirements and ensure alignment.
• Guide developers on implementing requirements and best practices.
• Perform site-building tasks including views, contexts, and blocks to match wireframes.
• Create and test custom Drupal modules and integrations.
• Evaluate designs for feasibility and flag potential issues early.

Skills

Drupal

Team Leadership

PHP

JavaScript

REST API

MySQL/MariaDB

Git

CI/CD

Unit Testing

Web Security

Tools

Drupal 7/8/9

Git workflows

MySQL

Job description

Category: IT Services Location: Colombo Western province Sri Lanka For an international organization in New York, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE (Senior) Drupal Lead with +3 years of Lead experience. We are looking for freelancers/contractors, who can work 8 consecutive hours. All positions are long-term. Candidates need to be able to work the normal office hours of New York, US.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for web operations and maintenance activities and/or new web projects;
• Provide team leadership and management of new web projects;
• Provide team leadership to small teams of developers working on operations and projects;
• Lead software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, configuring, programming, documentation, and unit testing for Drupal;
• Working closely with clients, conducting business analysis to determine and document requirements;
• Working closely with web developers, providing guidance on implementation of requirements;
• Perform site-building activities, including creating and modifying views, contexts and blocks to match functionality specified in wireframes and designs;
• Create and test custom Drupal modules;
• Evaluate designs, wireframes and other deliverables during the design and user experience phase for potential development issues and flag feasibility challenges when needed;

Profile:

• 5+ years of experience in developing large complex Drupal 7, 8 or 9 enterprise web applications that include custom views and modules. At least 2+ years of experience should be on Drupal 8 or 9;
• 3+ years of experience leading teams of Drupal Developers on maintenance and support of Drupal based websites or new projects;
• Experience working with clients to specify requirements for websites;
• Working experience in managing deployments of Drupal projects with multiple developers across multiple environments;
• Experience in developing adaptive/responsive websites using frameworks such as Bootstrap;
• Proficiency coding in PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript and other web development tools;
• Experience with REST API integrations and mastery of working with MySQL and MariaDB databases;
• Proficiency in using Git and related workflows for source control management;
• Expertise in unit testing, automated deployment processes, and continuous integration;
• Ability to analyze requirements and write detailed technical / functional specifications;
• Desirable - Ability to communicate software and system design architectures using tools like Visio and UML;
• Desirable - Knowledge of cloud-based services, cloud architecture and information security;
• Fluent in English;