Technical Lead Job in Valuebound

Job Brief

As a Technical Lead, you are able to visualize the project architecture and lead the technical team throughout execution. It is your overall responsibility to ensure technical development is on track. You will create user stories with a level of effort estimates, work with clients directly, and manage developers by encouraging productivity, quality, and accountability. You will focus your efforts to meet development schedules, stated estimates, technical specifications, and design requirements. This position is fast-paced, deals with shifting priorities, and reports to Katherine White, Chief Technology Officer.

Skills & Qualifications

• 6 to 8 Years of experience in Drupal development with a minimum of 2 years of hands-on Drupal 8.
• Have an architect mindset and is able to propose complex solutions
• Should have knowledge of Decoupled architecture
• Expertise in Drupal core API and custom module development.
• Good knowledge of common Drupal modules such as Views, Services, CTools, Panels, etc.
• Experience in extending them through custom Drupal programming.
• Working knowledge of available Drupal hooks and APIs, Drush, Features.
• Good experience with migrations (or having very good knowledge of how data migrations are handled in Drupal).
• Proficiency in web technologies e.g. PHP, jQuery, AJAX.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Working knowledge of using git/svn.
• Caching mechanisms (Drupal, Redis, Memcache, varnish)
• Site Optimization and performance
• Cloud Deployment (AWS, Acquia, Pantheon)
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, etc.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Lando, Vagrant
• Building and supporting a wide variety of Drupal sites.
• Talking directly with clients about their technical challenges and business needs and documenting their requirements.
• Working with UX, Design, and management team members to plan a project in the early phases.
• Owning the project team s overall technical approach, defining project tasks, and estimates, and being a point of continuity.
• Providing architectural vision that helps your developers guide their implementation decisions.
• Answering questions from and providing mentorship to others on your team.