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Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Lead Drupal Engineer.
In this role, the successful Drupal Tech Lead, will be responsible for leading and managing our offshore team and mentoring junior Drupal developers. You will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of our Drupal-based projects. Your expertise will ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure web solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
Leadership and Team Management:
Lead and manage an offshore team of Drupal developers, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
Mentor and guide junior Drupal developers, providing technical support and career development.
Conduct regular code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
Project Management:
Collaborate with project managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define project requirements and deliverables.
Participate in an agile scrum process attending daily standups, grooming and retrospective meetings.
Develop project plans, timelines, and resource allocation to ensure timely delivery of projects.
Monitor project progress, identify potential risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
Technical Expertise
Design, develop, and maintain Drupal-based websites and applications (frontend and backend, full stack).
Ensure the scalability, security, and performance of Drupal solutions.
Implement code with best practices for operational support error handling, logging, graphing of key metrics, graceful failure, tuning timeouts appropriately.
Stay up-to-date with the latest Drupal trends, technologies, and best practices.
Code Development and Review
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code with proper testing frameworks and procedures.
Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality and compliance with coding standards.
Ensure instrumentation of code for operational support and performance monitoring.
Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues and bugs.
Encourage adherence to standards & best practices - graceful failure, security, unit testing, devops, instrumentation drive the build to operate strategy.
Ensure technical debt is managed to maintain a healthy tech stack software version upgrades and optimizations are part of standard operating procedures.
Collaboration and Communication
Foster a collaborative and positive team environment.
Communicate effectively with team members, clients, and stakeholders.
Provide regular updates on project status and progress
Operations
Perform production deployments as needed during off hours
Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation. Provide support as needed during production outages off-hours.
Lead deep technical analysis in the resolution of production issues related to Drupal and other integrated technologies (Varnish, HA Proxy, Amazon Web Services).
Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a BS or MS in engineering or computer science related discipline or equivalent experience.
Over 8 years of experience as a Drupal developer with a strong portfolio of Drupal-based projects.
2+ years serving as a tech lead on a team directing engineering efforts, delegating work and serve as a liaison to a team of engineers (both onshore and offshore) to accomplish sprint goals.
Extensive experience with Drupal 7/8/9/10, including custom module development and theming.
Expert knowledge of web technologies including HTTP 2, TLS encryption, caching, web browsers, cookies, http headers, html , javascript and CSS (web only).
Expert knowledge of developing Drupal custom modules and themes using Docker Containers.
Expert knowledge of the Unix operating system (RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu).
Expert knowledge of GIT version control including using branches, code reviews, tags, etc.
Expert knowledge of using Unit testing frameworks and experience writing unit tests as part of the development process.
Expert Knowledge of agile scrum methodology and experience working on a scrum team.
Expert knowledge of relational database technologies designing normalized relational schemas, creating schemas, indexes, writing sql queries and troubleshooting performance issues.
Expert knowledge of creating REST APIs and REST standards using standard tools that automatically create API documentation (web and service)
Full stack development capabilities - Expert knowledge of both front end (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Twig, React) and backend (PHP) scripting languages for feature development, unit testing, instrumentation and debugging.
Working knowledge of one cloud computing platform creating cloud based infrastructure and managing with infrastructure as code tools (web and service)
Working knowledge of devops tools to deploy Drupal projects creating code pipelines using Jenkins (or equivalent) to automatically deploy and validate deployments.
Working knowledge of platforms for instrumentation including Grafana, Cloudwatch, Data Dog, etc.
Working knowledge of deploying Drupal applications using Docker containers.
Working knowledge of test automation tools and ability to integrate testing into pipelines. Types of tests include functional, service, contract and networking failure mode.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve production issues application, networking and OS level and provide Teir 2 production support.
Positive and growth-oriented mindset. Flexible personality, comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
Verbal and oral communication skills. Ability to collaborate with team members to complete team goals.
Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
NYU Langone Health provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.
NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.
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NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $117,107.95 - $159,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
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