Head - Engineering - Drupal - Online/Internet

Job Summary - 

A person having 10+ years of relevant experience in architecting solutions based on Drupal 7, and any other frameworks like Spring, MEAN and so on. Hosting and scaling applications on AWS based infrastructure is an added advantage.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Construct conceptual and technical designs that include the use of industry standard best practices and techniques

- Build, maintain and manage an e-commerce platform built on Drupal 7 and other individual applications built in different technologies/framework such as React JS, MEAN stack, Laravel, Drupal 8, Python etc.

- Build, maintain and manage Android and ReactNative mobile apps.

- Estimate and deliver on development tasks with high level of accuracy in an agile environment

- Ensure product quality, maintainability, performance and scalability

- Analyse business requirements to develop functional and technical software

- Project execution with collaboration with multiple tracks

Necessary Experience and Skillsets:

- Understanding of Drupal 7 architecture

- Understanding of Drupal 7 database design

- Solid fundamentals around hooks, APIs and Drupal core mechanism

- Good knowledge of Cloud based and in-house infrastructure on project need basis

- Good understanding of best practices for custom code (PHP, JavaScript), theme and module development, module updates, identifying and resolving bugs

- Understanding of advance site performance optimization concepts i.e. identifying load times, memory usage, slow queries, setting up and manage various layers of caching mechanisms ex. Varnish/Memcached, changing cache layers and cache invalidation.

- Understanding of various integration patterns, use of Drupal queues, services module

- Understanding of W3C standards, Accessibility Standards, Security Guidelines

- Understanding of content migration approaches and design

- Understanding of MySQL replications and configuration

- Ability to create install profiles, custom distributions

- Understanding of various solution patterns and Drupal's applicability on each ex decoupled patterns, brand and product marketing, Community, Intranets

- Experience in Node, MEAN, ReactJS, Ract Native, Android is preferred

- Good understanding of Decoupling of Frontend vs Backend

- Experience of managing teams working in different technologies.

- Ability to architect and design high performance systems.

- 3rd party integrations understanding is a must

- Working experience in multi-team environment is preferred

Education:

Full time Bachelor's/master's degree (Computer Science or Engineering).

Possible career-paths:

- Senior Manager / Senior Architect or Domain Specialist