Leidos Looking for Drupal Technical Lead at Gaithersburg, MD Full Time

Job Description:

Leidos is looking for a senior Durpal Technical lead who will in hands-on capacity to lead design and technical discussion with project team and assist in the design of technical solutions. Will be working with cross-functional teams to assist with planning for website design, content restructure, content authoring workflows, client demos, and improvements. Will need to identify and solve project-related issues that are technical, business and resource specific. This is a dynamic position and requires individual with strong technical, communication and collaboration skills who can think strategically and execute tactically.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years software/IT experience and bachelors degree (or 4 years additional experience)
• Experience as a Technical Lead or Architect, ideally in a professional services or consulting environment with a demonstrable history of leading Drupal engineering teams.
• Strong Drupal Back-end technical skills and familiarity across Front-end and DevOps.
• Comfortable with release management in environments with intensive processes.
• Able to communicate technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Motivating and self-directed engineering team leader valuing: collaboration, listening, empathy, transparency, attention to detail, ownership, accountability, risk management.
• Perform site-building activities, including creating and modifying views, contexts and blocks in order to match functionality specified in wireframes and designs
• Evaluate designs, wireframes and other deliverables during the design and user experience phase for potential development issues and flag data model and/or feasibility challenges when needed
• Develop and implement custom modules in Drupal and perform code reviews
• Integrate Drupal with other systems
• Perform security and performance reviews of sites prior to deployments
• Communicate the intricacies of backend development challenges/issues, acting as a subject matter expert both internally across departments and externally with clients
• Strong knowledge of managing taxonomy

Other Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Search API Solr module integration is preferred
• Exposure to AWS Data Lake architecture, integration of search components
• Working experience on agile projects with quick sprint release cycles using JIRA or other similar tools
• Have good exposure to CI/CD pipeline with AWS services and configuration management

Pay Range:
Pay Range $94,250.00 – $145,000.00 – $195,750.00
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