End-to-End CMS Engineer (Drupal & Wagtail)

RE/SPEC Inc.; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RESPEC is seeking a CMS Implementation Specialist to lead the end‑to‑end technical implementation of the new GeoInfo website, leveraging Drupal and/or Wagtail. You will work closely with project, product management, and design teams, and coordinate with security staff to meet the Q2 2027 launch milestone for Level 0–2 content.

The role requires 3–5+ years of hands‑on CMS development, strong content modeling, migrations, and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of demonstrable hands‑on CMS development and technical implementation experience.
• Hands‑on development and implementation experience with modern enterprise CMS platforms, with direct proficiency in Drupal (PHP, Composer, Twig) and/or Wagtail (Python, Django).
• Deep technical understanding of modular structured content, reusable templates, atomic page components, custom field configurations, and multi‑tier editorial publishing workflows.
• Demonstrated experience executing content migration pipelines, database transformation scripts, and digital asset migrations for extensive static repositories (PDFs, media files, datasets).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate smoothly across multi‑disciplinary teams including software engineers, UI/UX designers, content strategists, project managers, and executive client stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing implementation sprints, tickets, pull requests, and bug backlogs using Jira or comparable agile project management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on creating clear technical documentation, architectural decision records (ADRs), and handoff guides.

Responsibilities

• Implement approved, responsive CMS page models and structured content types using Drupal (Twig, custom modules, blocks) and Wagtail (StreamField, Page models, Django templates).
• Support the full structural build‑out and taxonomy alignment of the website information architecture from Level 0 through Level 2 and beyond.
• Coordinate with the agency’s technical, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to ensure all architecture decisions align with institutional compliance, accessibility, hosting, and security standards.
• Support the execution of priority content migration workflows in close alignment with the finalized Content Migration Plan.
• Lead the technical extraction, cleaning, and ingestion of legacy static assets—including technical PDF reports, scientific images, and downloadable datasets—into structured CMS media libraries.
• Implement robust URL routing, 301 redirect mappings, menu navigation, breadcrumbs, and cross‑site transition pathways connecting legacy GeoInfo content to the new web environment.
• Lead and support technical testing, including template rendering, responsive UI, editorial workflows, access control permissions, search indexing, and launch‑critical functionality.
• Support the technical integration of third‑party institutional systems, APIs, and enterprise databases (e.g., HigherEd ERP / Ellucian Banner).
• Actively track, estimate, and document implementation deliverables, backlog stories, bugs, and future‑phase technical debt using Jira.
• Deliver a fully tested, secure, and production‑ready live website populated with validated, migrated Level 0 through Level 2 content by target deadlines.

Skills

CMS development

Collaboration

Technical documentation

Agile methodologies

Tools

Drupal

Wagtail

Twig

Django

Python

Jira

Job description

RESPEC is seeking a CMS Implementation Specialist to lead the end‑to‑end technical implementation of the new GeoInfo website, leveraging Drupal and/or Wagtail. You will work closely with project, product management, and design teams, and coordinate with security staff to meet the Q2 2027 launch milestone for Level 0–2 content.

The role requires 3–5+ years of hands‑on CMS development, strong content modeling, migrations, and collaboration across disciplines.