Technical Lead, Drupal

For People; Virginia; A distancia; USD 130.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

For People is hiring a Technical Lead to own the engineering of the CMS-driven data site for CMS data. The role focuses on Drupal, React front end, security, and scalable hosting across the United States.

You will guide architecture decisions, ensure uptime and security, and drive migration to future platforms while enabling CMS offices to publish data directly in Drupal.

Formación

• 6+ years of Drupal development with 3+ years on Acquia hosting.
• 3+ years building custom Drupal modules.
• 3+ years with MySQL and SQLite databases.
• ~6+ years of web development, including 3+ years React.
• Experience building software for the federal government with CMS security (FISMA).
• Experience with content delivery networks (CDN) and cloud hosting, migrations between environments.
• Experience owning a team's testing practice (functional, performance, security, accessibility).
• Experience leading agile teams for public-facing data/content platforms and open data standards.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the engineering for the agency’s public data website built on Drupal with a React front end.
• Own architecture decisions and ensure Drupal modules and security posture are up to date.
• Maintain reliability and security with uptime targets and release management.
• Lead hosting/platform migrations with no downtime or ATO gaps.
• Empower CMS offices to publish and update data directly in Drupal.
• Set engineering standards including code reviews, automated tests, security scans, and accessibility testing.
• Collaborate with CMS product owners and data owners, explaining technical trade-offs clearly.
• Manage 6+ years of Drupal development and 6+ years of web development experience.

Conocimientos

Drupal development

Acquia hosting

Drupal modules

MySQL SQLite

React

Web development

Federal government experience

FISMA compliance

ATO process

CDN and cloud hosting

Testing practices

Open data standards

Drupal

Herramientas

Drupal tooling

Acquia hosting

Descripción del empleo

For People is improving government digital services for the disadvantaged population. We work directly with government agencies to modernize software, systems, and platforms so that they better serve people. They are researchers, reporters, policy staff, and health care providers. When the data is hard to find, a file is too large to post, or a column quietly changes its name between releases, their work slows down or goes wrong.

This project supports the website where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes that data for the public. It holds a large catalog of datasets, lookup tools, and dashboards from many parts of the agency, available as downloads, interactive tools, and a public API. As Technical Lead, you will be the top technical authority for the team that builds and runs it. You will keep the site fast, secure, and accessible, and you will lead the engineering behind its next stage, including larger data files, self-service publishing for the CMS offices that own the data, and bringing CMS data that is now spread across other agency websites onto one site.

This position is a full-time position contingent on For People being awarded a federal contract. That means picking a child up from school during the day or going for a mid-day walk is okay!

This position is 100% remote. Our entire team is remote across the United States, from the West Coast to the East Coast. There will never be a return-to-office, as we have none! Occasional travel to CMS headquarters in Baltimore, MD (2-3 times per year) is required. This full-time position’s published base salary range is between $130,000 and $160,000 annually. For People pays 100% of Gold-tier employee health insurance premiums) and annual company profit sharing.

On the project, you will:

• Lead the engineering for the agency’s public data website, built on Drupal with a separate React front end. You will own architecture decisions, keep Drupal and its modules current, and be responsible for your team’s coding standards.
• Keep the site reliable and secure, with targets of 99.5% uptime. That covers release management, monitoring and alerts, incident response, and the security documentation that keeps the site’s Authority to Operate (ATO) current.
• Lead the research on new hosting and content delivery options. Lead out the migration to any new platform architectures without a gap in the site’s ATO.
• Give the CMS offices that own the data a way to publish and update it themselves in Drupal.
• Set the team’s engineering standards, including code reviews, agentic coding tools, automated tests, security scans, and accessibility testing before every release.
• Lead the technical work of moving data from other CMS websites onto the platform, and look for responsible uses of AI.
• Work closely with CMS product owners, data owners across the agency, other CMS contractors, and teammates from our partner firms, and explain technical trade-offs in plain language.
• 6+ years of Drupal development, including 3+ years on managed Drupal hosting such as Acquia, 3+ years building custom Drupal modules, and 3+ years with MySQL and SQLite databases.
• ~6+ years of web development overall, including 3+ years of React and 3+ years connecting React front ends to Drupal.
• ~ Experience building and running software for the federal government, including work on CMS systems. You have kept a codebase in line with federal security requirements (FISMA) and you know how the CMS ATO process works.
• ~ Experience with content delivery networks (Akamai or similar) and cloud hosting, including planning and carrying out a move from one hosting environment to another.
• ~ Experience owning a team's full testing practice, including functional, performance, security, and accessibility testing, and building websites that meet Section 508 requirements.
• ~ Experience leading engineers on an agile team for a public-facing data or content platform, and working knowledge of open data standards.

You will be working on a United States government platform, and they have a few basic requirements for contractors like ourselves. In addition, you must be a United States citizen and be able to pass a government-performed public trust background check.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, and/or veteran status.