Senior Drupal Architect: AI-Driven, Secure and Scalable

Americaneagle.com, Inc.; Des Plaines (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Americaneagle.com is seeking an experienced Drupal Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable Drupal solutions. This role provides technical guidance to clients and project teams, owning architecture decisions and integrations, with emphasis on accessibility, security, and performance.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in Drupal development with architecture leadership, proficiency in PHP and modern Drupal workflows, and experience with CI/CD, Acquia/Pantheon deployments, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Drupal development experience with architecture or technical leadership responsibilities.
• Experience designing and implementing integrations with third-party services and enterprise systems.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and their application to solution architecture and development.
• Proficiency with PHP, Composer, Git, dependency management, and modern Drupal development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of complex Drupal implementations.
• Translate business objectives and functional requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Lead solution-design discussions and document key architecture decisions, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Design integrations between Drupal and external platforms and other third-party services.
• Enforce standards for code quality, security, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and documentation.
• Guide development of custom Drupal modules, themes, components, content models, workflows, and integrations.
• Provide technical guidance to clients and stakeholders.
• Partner with project teams on implementation approaches, estimation, risks, and planning.
• Evaluate application performance and recommend improvements involving caching and queries.
• Lead technical troubleshooting and support the resolution of complex production issues.
• Conduct code and architecture reviews, providing feedback.
• Mentor developers and promote consistent engineering practices across teams.
• Define and promote responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Skills

Drupal development

Architectural leadership

Solution estimation

CI/CD

PHP

Git

Third-party integrations

Accessibility

Client communication

Tools

GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps

CI/CD tools

Acquia/Pantheon

Job description

Americaneagle.com is seeking an experienced Drupal Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable Drupal solutions. This role provides technical guidance to clients and project teams, owning architecture decisions and integrations, with emphasis on accessibility, security, and performance.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in Drupal development with architecture leadership, proficiency in PHP and modern Drupal workflows, and experience with CI/CD, Acquia/Pantheon deployments, and