Drupal Technical Lead - Remote Public Data Platform

For People; Virginia Beach (VA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Profit sharing

Job summary

For People seeks a Technical Lead to own architecture for a Drupal/React public data site. You will steer engineering standards, security practices, and platform migrations for a federal contractor.

The role is remote across the United States, with occasional travel to CMS HQ in Baltimore. Base salary is publicly posted as $130,000–$160,000 per year, with health insurance coverage and profit sharing.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Drupal development, including 3+ years on Acquia hosting.
• 6+ years of web development, incl. 3+ years React and 3+ years connecting React to Drupal.
• Experience with federal government software and CMS systems, with knowledge of FISMA and CMS ATO.
• Experience with CDN hosting and cloud hosting, planning migrations between hosts.
• Experience leading engineers on agile teams for public data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering for the agency's public data website, built on Drupal with a separate React front end, owning architecture decisions and coding standards.
• Maintain uptime targets (99.5%), manage releases, monitoring, incident response, and security documentation for ATO.
• Lead research on hosting and content delivery options.
• Lead migration to new platform architectures with no ATO gap.
• Enable CMS offices to publish/update data in Drupal.
• Set engineering standards including code reviews, automated tests, security scans, and accessibility testing.
• Oversee data movement from other CMS sites and advise on responsible AI usage.
• Collaborate with CMS product owners, data owners, contractors, and partner firms.

Skills

Drupal development

React

MySQL/SQLite

Federal experience

FISMA

CDN hosting

Agile leadership

Open data standards

Tools

Acquia hosting

Akamai CDN

Job description

For People seeks a Technical Lead to own architecture for a Drupal/React public data site. You will steer engineering standards, security practices, and platform migrations for a federal contractor.

The role is remote across the United States, with occasional travel to CMS HQ in Baltimore. Base salary is publicly posted as $130,000–$160,000 per year, with health insurance coverage and profit sharing.