Senior Drupal Developer & Migration Architect

Axelerant; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Axelerant is seeking a senior Drupal developer to own upgrades and redesigns for enterprise sites. You will assess current architecture, migrate content, and release with cross-functional teams spanning design, QA, and project management.

Responsibilities include upgrading production sites, building reusable components with Twig, PHP, and Drupal APIs, and coordinating with technical leads and hosting environments. This role emphasizes performance, compatibility, and scalable frontends.

Qualifications

• At least six years of professional Drupal development experience.
• Strong skills in Drupal site building, custom module development, Drupal APIs, PHP, and Twig.
• Experience upgrading production Drupal sites and resolving compatibility issues.
• Experience building component-based Drupal frontends and migrating content with the Drupal Migrate API.
• Hands-on experience with Acquia Cloud or Cloud Next environments, deployments, configuration, logs, and diagnostics.
• Experience with Acquia Content Hub, CLI or Cloud API, platform pipelines, Search or Solr, and caching strategies.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out a Drupal upgrade, checking compatibility and resolving deprecated code.
• Build reusable, responsive Single Directory Components with Twig, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Map existing content to the new site model and validate migrated data.
• Create and maintain content types, fields, views, taxonomies, and custom modules.
• Support external API and identity integrations and verify site stability.
• Coordinate release work with technical leads, frontend development, QA, and project management.

Skills

Drupal development

Drupal site building

Twig

PHP

Drupal APIs

Migrate API

Tools

Acquia Cloud/Cloud Next

Drupal CLI

Content Hub

Solr/Search

Job description

Axelerant is seeking a senior Drupal developer to own upgrades and redesigns for enterprise sites. You will assess current architecture, migrate content, and release with cross-functional teams spanning design, QA, and project management.

Responsibilities include upgrading production sites, building reusable components with Twig, PHP, and Drupal APIs, and coordinating with technical leads and hosting environments. This role emphasizes performance, compatibility, and scalable frontends.