Senior Web Developer - Drupal and Front-End Specialist

AHU Technologies•Washington, DC

About The Position

The Client is seeking to acquire a Web Developer to support the day-to-day projects within the Digital Service Team. Some of the primary responsibilities of this role would include requirements analysis, designing, modifies, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications and components. The Web Developer role requires a service-oriented mentality, high ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with request status. Initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes. Will work closely with client and various District agencies to define needs or issues and analyzes problems and advise on or recommend solutions. CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities: · Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty. · Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/ products. This is a professional position which may require subject matter expertise consistent with demanding and rare technological skills. · May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team · Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design. · Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements. · Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders. · May coordinate activities of application developers.11- · Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product. · Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems. · Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies. · Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies. · Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications. · Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts. · Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter. · May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert). · Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.

Requirements

JavaScript (encompassing vanilla JS, React, JSX, and TypeScript)
A front-end framework such as GatsbyJS or NextJS
HTML and CSS
Local development using Docker
Git version control
Expertise with Drupal 9+ (especially Twig templates)
Experience with common programming design patterns (e.g., Strategy, Adapter, Decorator, Observer, etc.)
Familiarity with project management software such as Jira, Basecamp, or Wrike
6-10 yrs. performing specialized (often advanced) programming and technical development for the Internet. Required 6 Years
6-10 yrs preparing complex technical documentation. Required 6 Years
Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required
HTML5 / CSS3 / XML (L-4). Required 8 Years
PHP (L-4) and Drupal (L3). Required 5 Years
Bootstrap 4. Required 5 Years
JavaScript / ajax / jQuery: (L-5). Required 7 Years
Angular: web development framework (L-4). Required 8 Years
Web Development. Required 8 Years
Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC). Highly desired 5 Years
Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).
Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.

Responsibilities

Create, maintain, and troubleshoot custom-coded JavaScript components and Drupal Twig templates.
Install and update Node packages.
Review pulls requests on GitHub.
Translate verbal and written requirements from stakeholders into working products.
Help with QA testing and bug hunts.
Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/ products.
May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team
Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design.
Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements.
Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders.
May coordinate activities of application developers.11-
Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems.
Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies.
Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies.
Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.