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Summary

The Drupal Developer Intermediate is a key member of the marketing and web team at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. This individual shares our passion for creating excellent user experiences for diverse audiences and providing integrated, comprehensive Drupal solutions for our campus community. The developer is an expert and a collaborator, working with the cross-functional team to determine the best approach to develop new features.

This is an excellent opportunity to own and cultivate a codebase and web product. The developer is the foundational role on campus for maintaining the Drupal 9 Content Management System (serving most of campus; the website receives ~10M pageviews/year) and building new features. This individual will take (and sometimes write) requirements, advise on a solution, perform work, and then release it. The individual will collaborate with vendor partners and other internal departments.

The ideal candidate is a T-shaped developer, demonstrating broad knowledge of general web development practices with the depth being in Drupal 9.

This position is mostly remote-eligible, although you can also work on our beautiful campus in Southeast Michigan either full-time or hybrid.
 

Responsibilities*

70% Drupal feature development and maintenance
? Maintain UM-Dearborn?s campus-wide Drupal Content Management System, a complex web application serving most of campus.
? Maintain michigandifferencemakers.com, a small-scale Drupal site, including applying security updates and feature development when deemed necessary.
? Build new features, components and content types using contrib (and, rarely, custom) modules that meet business requirements, including those that integrate data from multiple sources.
? Build and support integration between Drupal and multiple systems (including Salesforce, Alertus, Rave, CampusLabs, etc.).
? Promptly review and apply security/core updates to keep the system secure and up to date.
? Fix bugs/issues as reported by the community.
? Provide sustainable solutions and strategies to all of the above.
? Write, read, and maintain well-commented code and project documentation.
? Contribute back to the Drupal community.

15% Analysis, review and planning
? Serves as technical lead to the team and adviser to team leadership.
? Analyze business requirements and user research and compare against system feasibility to propose the best course of action.
? Advocate for software development solutions that support both the sustainability of the system and optimize user experience.
? Work with the team to develop the Drupal roadmap and estimate work.
? Review code of other developers (vendor partners and/or team members) and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
? Suggest ways to solve difficult issues to other internal and external developers.

10% DevOps and Release Management
? Merge & deploy code to different environments, including production.
? Setup and maintain continuous integration so that deploy processes are automated and optimized.
? Ensure that automated testing is applied throughout the process.
? Sets up and troubleshoots development environments for internal and external developers.

5% Hosting & Performance Optimization
? Work with the team to ensure that development, security and accessibility best practices are being met.
? Work with hosting partner to ensure that our sites are performant, attending routine calls, examining logs/performance management data, and filing tickets as needed.

Occasional after-hours work expected (specifically, for releases). Other duties as assigned.
 

Required Qualifications*

? Bachelor?s degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent work experience)
? 5+ years of progressively responsible Drupal 8-9 development experience
? Demonstrated fluency in building sustainable Drupal features through modules and content types, building new ones where appropriate.
? Proactively identifies problems and researches the solutions to them, often collaborating internally and with others in the Drupal community.
? Experience maintaining complex web applications and producing solutions to improve them.
? Efficient and effective in time-management.
? Experience with continuous integration, Git, and code deployments.
? Comfort with Agile methodology/Agile practices, including work estimation.
? Solid understanding of performance best practices, including caching, caching system integration and implementation, and caching best practices.
? Experience with building MYSQL/SQL queries.
? Expert understanding and experience in Drupal theming using Twig templating.
? Expert knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript; knowledge of front-end frameworks a plus.
? Understanding of and interest in user experience and communications best practices and how they relate to coding; supports solutions that best support the user experience.
? Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, to technical and non-technical people.
? Enjoys taking on new challenges, advocating for best practices, and solving problems.
? Must be a collaborative, calm, professional, service-oriented technical leader.
? Ability to work independently while being productive and timely.
 

Desired Qualifications*

? Experience working in or for higher education.
? Understanding of Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools; can take data and contribute to analysis yielding meaningful insights.
? Understanding of and experience implementing technical best practices for website accessibility per
? WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act.
? Experience implementing technical best practices for SEO.

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks.  Background checks are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.