Senior Drupal Subject Matter Expert

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Direct the design, modernization, and implementation strategies for enterprise Drupal solutions that adhere to DHS technical standards and cloud-hosted environments.

• Define application architectures for Drupal, addressing both monolithic and headless/decoupled approaches.

• Establish architectural patterns, coding standards, and reusable components.

• Guide the creation, enhancement, and maintenance of custom Drupal modules.

• Review and validate contributed modules and third-party libraries.

• Enhance Drupal performance through effective caching, content architecture, and page-rendering techniques.

• Architect Drupal integrations with identity solutions like Okta SSO, data services, cloud hosting, and external APIs.

• Ensure that Drupal applications function effectively with systems and databases across DHS enterprise environments.

• Guarantee compliance with DHS security directives, cloud security controls, and NIST-aligned safeguards.

• Validate accessibility compliance with Section 508 WCAG 2.0 A/AA and support Trusted Tester methodologies.

• Oversee functional, regression, accessibility, usability, and integration testing processes.

• Provide technical guidance during releases, migrations, deployments, and environment configurations alongside DevOps teams.

• Assess emerging Drupal capabilities, frameworks, hosting models, and tools.

• Advise leadership on Drupal roadmaps, platform consolidation, and strategies for enterprise reuse.

• Mentor developers, analysts, and architects.

• Produce or oversee SELC documentation, architectural diagrams, data flows, module specifications, and user/developer guides.

• Support governance reviews, change control, and technical assessments for Drupal enhancements and modernization initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

• 11 years of progressive technical or functional experience in a specific technical area or specialty skill.

• US Citizenship and the ability to successfully pass a government-issued background investigation.

• Capability to obtain a Public Trust.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.

• Ability to inspire and guide technical teams.

• Experience with Drupal, Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Power Platform, SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, Dataverse, Confluence, Jira, and ServiceNow.

• Familiarity with DHS technical standards, cloud-hosted environments, DHS security directives such as 4300A, cloud security controls, NIST-aligned safeguards, Section 508, WCAG 2.0 A/AA, and Trusted Tester methodologies.

• Microsoft Certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to obtain a Public Trust.

• Previous Public Trust or Security Clearance is preferred.

• Microsoft Certification is preferred.