Lead Web Developer, Drupal Platform
About The Position
The Lead Web Developer provides technical and people leadership for ASU’s enterprise Drupal web platform, Webspark, and related web services. The role leads a team responsible for building, maintaining, releasing, and improving Drupal-based websites, themes, modules, integrations, accessibility practices, and managed hosting workflows across ASU’s web ecosystem. This hands-on leadership position combines Drupal, PHP, CMS, accessibility, and enterprise web platform work with technical direction, code review, release coordination, team mentorship, platform improvement, and support for site owners, editors, developers, and service partners. The role helps sustain the reliability, security, accessibility, and scalability of ASU’s web ecosystem and supports modernization across TechEd services. It also guides responsible use of AI-assisted development practices to improve documentation, automate routine work, support testing and code review, accelerate troubleshooting, and improve digital experiences. The position is part of ASU Enterprise Technology and is expected to foster belonging and a relational, visionary, and empowering culture. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. A cover letter and resume or CV are required. The cover letter must briefly address experience with other CMSes and web application frameworks, full-stack experience, and cloud providers used.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and seven years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment or field, or an equivalent combination of experience and/or training demonstrating comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to developers, website owners, editors, service partners, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading, mentoring, or supervising web developers, Drupal developers, or technical contributors.
- Strong experience developing, maintaining, and supporting Drupal-based websites or web platforms.
- Experience with Drupal 10 or newer, including custom module and theme development, configuration management, content types, views, permissions, and deployment workflows.
- Experience with PHP, Twig, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern web development practices.
- Experience supporting enterprise content management systems, multisite environments, or large-scale web platforms.
- Experience with Acquia, Pantheon, WP Engine, or comparable managed hosting platforms.
- Experience coordinating web platform releases, QA, stakeholder communication, documentation, and production support.
- Understanding of web accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA or higher, and experience applying accessibility practices in web development.
- Knowledge of Git, version control workflows, code review, automated testing, release management, and environment management.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD workflows, deployment pipelines, caching, CDN services, DNS, web performance, and web security concepts.
- Experience with Cloudflare or comparable CDN, caching, DNS, or web platform security services.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, or similar tools for work tracking, documentation, sprint planning, and technical collaboration.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and practices, including code generation, documentation support, test creation, workflow automation, and responsible AI use.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and determining how they can responsibly improve enterprise web services.
- Experience supporting higher education, TechEd, digital experience platforms, accessibility programs, or complex enterprise service environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for ASU’s Drupal-based web platform, including Webspark, custom modules, themes, configuration, integrations, and related platform components.
- Oversee and perform regular releases for ASU’s Drupal multisite codebases, ensuring releases are tested, documented, communicated, and coordinated with relevant developers, site owners, service owners, and technical partners.
- Serve as a technical owner and escalation point for complex issues involving Drupal, Webspark, Acquia, managed hosting, integrations, performance, accessibility, code quality, and production support.
- Supervise, coach, and support web developers; establish development goals, support onboarding, guide priorities, review technical work, and promote consistent development practices.
- Contribute to the Drupal and web platform roadmap by identifying opportunities to improve architecture, reduce technical debt, modernize practices, strengthen accessibility, and support platform sustainability.
- Write, review, test, and deploy custom Drupal modules, themes, scripts, integrations, and automation.
- Support site launches and decommissions, Drupal upgrades, WordPress-to-Drupal migrations, and platform standardization.
- Apply accessibility best practices in development, theming, component work, QA, documentation, and release processes, and partner with accessibility stakeholders to support WCAG alignment.
- Work with hosting, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform partners on managed hosting, environment management, caching, performance, deployment workflows, and reliability.
- Improve Git workflows, QA practices, deployment pipelines, configuration management, automated testing, release planning, rollback planning, and operational documentation.
- Evaluate and use AI tools where appropriate for developer productivity, documentation, code generation and review, test creation, troubleshooting, and automation while maintaining human oversight, security, quality, and accessibility standards.
- Create documentation, training materials, technical guidance, office hours, and support resources for website owners, editors, developers, and service partners.
- Collaborate with product teams, project managers, service owners, cybersecurity, accessibility, infrastructure, analytics, and other Enterprise Technology partners to resolve issues, align priorities, and improve web service delivery.
- Foster a collaborative, service-oriented team culture focused on quality, accountability, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and professional development.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment, with opportunities for hybrid work where staff are in person three days per week.
- Professional development opportunities, including certificates and degrees through ASU programs with major tuition breaks.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
