Drupal and Integrations Developer

Job Summary: 

Promote the college’s mission and strategic goals by serving as the primary architect and backend developer for a large-scale Drupal multisite ecosystem. This role bridges deep technical engineering with high-impact marketing strategy, ensuring a secure, performant, and accessible digital presence for all campus stakeholders. Success in this position looks like a stable, performant, “author-friendly” platform that empowers the marketing team to drive recruitment and engagement while maintaining seamless integrations with institutional systems like Salesforce, Slate, Courseleaf, and Workday.

Take appropriate actions to support a diverse workforce and participate in the College's efforts to create a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming work environment.

Essential Functions:

Technical Engineering & Core Development (40%):

• Develop and maintain custom Drupal 10+ modules using modern APIs and best practices.
• Design and implement secure API integrations with enterprise platforms (Salesforce, Slate, Workday).
• Maintain and modernize legacy PHP codebases to ensure long-term sustainability and compatibility with current architecture.

Strategic Marketing Partnership (25%):

• Partner with the Marketing Director to leverage analytics tracking, GA4 events, and server-side tagging.
• Architect 'author-friendly' administrative interfaces (Paragraphs) to empower non-technical content managers.
• Monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals and site speed to support SEO and brand performance.

Systems Maintenance & DevOps (25%):

• Manage hosting environments (e.g., Pantheon), including deployment pipelines (CI/CD), configuration management, regression testing, security and version updates.
• Act as primary technical troubleshooter for high-traffic institutional events.

Documentation & Collaboration (10%):

• Document technical implementations and integration patterns to ensure team redundancy.
• Consult with the Marketing Director and Web Lead during planning phases to provide feasibility assessments for new digital initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

MINIMUM REQUIRED Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree

• Field: Computer Science or Engineering
• 5 or more years experience
• Area: Drupal backend and integrations development
• Knowledge of: Drupal 10+ architecture, REST APIs, JSON, OAuth, and authentication workflows.
• Skills: Proficiency in Drupal, Javascript, PHP, Composer and Git; ability to translate complex technical requirements for marketing stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate Degree
• Field: Computer Science
• 8 or more years experience
• Area: Drupal, Wordpress and API development
• Knowledge of: Drupal 10+ architecture, REST APIs, JSON, OAuth, and authentication workflows, WordPress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Workday, Technolutions Slate CRM
• Skills: Proficiency in Drupal and WordPress architecture JavaScript, React, PHP, Composer and Git; extensive experience with modern APIs and ETL processes