Drupal Lead - Full Remote (Contractor)

goPro Consultancy Group ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

goPro Consultancy Group ltd. in New York is urgently seeking a remote Senior Drupal Lead with over 3 years of lead experience to join a long-term freelance/contractor engagement.

The role requires strong team leadership, SDLC oversight for Drupal projects, and the ability to work New York office hours. Candidates should have extensive Drupal 7/8/9 experience, PHP/HTML/CSS/JS, REST APIs, Git workflows, and English fluency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing large, complex Drupal 7/8/9 enterprise apps.
• At least 2+ years on Drupal 8/9.
• 3+ years leading teams of Drupal Developers on maintenance or new projects.
• Experience gathering requirements from clients for websites.
• Deployment experience across multiple environments.
• Developing responsive sites using Bootstrap.
• Proficient in PHP/HTML/CSS/JS.
• Experience with REST APIs and MySQL/MariaDB.
• Git workflows for source control management.
• Expertise in unit testing and automated deployment/CI.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME for web operations and maintenance activities and/or new web projects.
• Provide team leadership and management of new web projects.
• Lead small teams of developers on operations and projects.
• Oversee the full Drupal SDLC from analysis to unit testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with clients to document requirements and guide implementation.
• Direct developers on implementing requirements and best practices.
• Handle site-building tasks and translate wireframes into functionality.
• Create and test custom Drupal modules.
• Evaluate designs for feasibility and flag potential issues.

Skills

Team leadership

Requirements analysis

Web development

English fluency

Unit testing

Continuous integration

SDLC / Agile

Tools

Drupal

Bootstrap

REST API

MySQL / MariaDB

Git workflows

Unit testing

CI/CD

Visio / UML

Job description

Category: IT Services Location: 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;