Drupal Developer

Ask IT consulting•Atlanta, GA

45d•Hybrid

About The Position

Georgia Tech Professional Education is looking to utilize freelance developers to assist our in-house team in the design, development, testing, and implementation of customized Drupal websites. This includes our primary Drupal Commerce-based site that allows our students to gather information, as well as register and pay for courses. Work will begin as soon as a qualified candidate is identified and will continue as-needed through June 30, 2016 – the end of our fiscal year. Renewal of this contract for the following fiscal year (or a portion thereof) may be granted at the discretion of the Application Development Manager based on project needs and the availability of funds. The freelance developer is authorized to bill only for time spent on actual development work, up to 40 hours per week, until such time as the freelance developer’s services are terminated by formal/written notification. Any work beyond the 40 hours per week must be pre-authorized in writing by the Application Development Manager, and can be billed at an agreed upon ‘overage’ rate prior to the start of the contract. Documentation of time spent must be itemized and presented in service invoices. General work hours are 8am-5pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, but flexible work schedules can be arranged with the Application Development Manager. Project work will include installation, configuration, and creation of Drupal modules. Some onsite work will be required, but a significant amount can be done remotely. Project goal is to provide an e-commerce enabled website that facilitates student registration and payment for Professional Education courses. Ideal candidate will have several years of experience programming in Drupal 7: installing, updating, and maintaining modules planning and developing custom Drupal 7 modules demonstrated experience and expertise in Drupal Commerce module modifying baseline modules to meet client needs experience with popular Drupal modules such as Feeds, Features, Views, LDAP, Panels in-depth knowledge of the Drupal hooks system, Form API, Batch API, Entity API, Field API In addition, solid PHP and MySQL experience are preferred Other desired experience to include: Ability to communicate and work well with others Apache SOLR search tool Basic web authoring languages such as XHTML, CSS/SaSS, JavaScript/JQuery, etc. Problem-solving, troubleshooting, and bug fixing using web services, APIs, XML, REST, SOAP, WSDL, etc. for data exchange and integration version control (Git) code testing (unit testing, acceptance testing, TDD, BDD) ability to write and maintain database stored procedures using MySQL, or SQL Server application security methodologies

Requirements

Several years of experience programming in Drupal 7
installing, updating, and maintaining modules
planning and developing custom Drupal 7 modules
demonstrated experience and expertise in Drupal Commerce module
modifying baseline modules to meet client needs
experience with popular Drupal modules such as Feeds, Features, Views, LDAP, Panels
in-depth knowledge of the Drupal hooks system, Form API, Batch API, Entity API, Field API
solid PHP and MySQL experience
Drupal
Git (version control)
MySQL
PHP

Nice To Haves

Ability to communicate and work well with others
Apache SOLR search tool
Basic web authoring languages such as XHTML, CSS/SaSS, JavaScript/JQuery, etc.
Problem-solving, troubleshooting, and bug fixing
using web services, APIs, XML, REST, SOAP, WSDL, etc. for data exchange and integration
code testing (unit testing, acceptance testing, TDD, BDD)
ability to write and maintain database stored procedures using MySQL, or SQL Server
application security methodologies