Drupal Site Builder

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Job description

Job Title: Drupal Site Builder

Job ID: WS22-004

Job Location: Washington, D.C

Duration: 24 Months contract (Extendable)

Job Description:

PROJECT DETAILS:

1. The CAO Web Services Team of the U.S. House of Representatives (House) provides web hosting, design, development and consultation services to House Members, Committees and Leadership (MCLs).
2. The Production and Customer Support Team of House Web Services specifically provides redesign/redevelopment of websites as well as ongoing customer support and other web related services to House of Representatives' Members, Committees, Leadership, Caucuses, Officers and supporting offices within the House.gov domain.
3. The House is engaged in a Modernization initiative migrating websites to a Drupal 9 platform from a Drupal 7 platform, as well as other CMS's, and concurrently working to make those sites as accessibility compliant as possible.
4. To achieve the above goal, the House is seeking a Drupal Site Builder (Level 2) to pair with design team members in the migration, buildout, (re-)design and publishing of new or updated House websites to appropriately high levels of web standards, accessibility compliance and customer satisfaction.
5. A successful candidate must be able to take lead on the customer interaction as well as the engagement with design partners and other teams to successfully launch each website, along with regular site building duties and facilitation of any necessary remediation of code, content and design. This role demands a candidate that is highly performant and works with teammates to reliably deliver high quality.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Team with Front-End Development/Design personnel to build out new and redesigned websites in the House platform (currently multi-site, Drupal 9). Migrate websites from older versions of the House platform (largely Drupal 7) to the new platform. Troubleshoot and ensure all appropriate features, content types, files, documents, images, displays, etc. render as expected on the finished website, meeting customer requirements as well as best practices and accessibility standards.
2. Team with Backend Development personnel on any features requiring development work on a given site build. Install and Configure Drupal Environments in on-premise and cloud environments using appropriate CI/CD tools. Debug and resolve Drupal related issues.
3. Migrate Drupal websites from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. Verify and troubleshoot automated content migrations. Train and assist staff in manual migration, editing and updating of content. Troubleshoot and assist customers with access permissions and roles as necessary.
4. Engage and manage each site build as a small project from initial requirements gathering, through iterations, to final site publish. Write simple project proposals for each office's engagement. Hold meetings, provide updates, manage customer expectations. Set, communicate, and meet timelines for customer approvals and deliverables. Ensure timely provision of Team deliverables.
5. Must meet all applicable House and industry standards, security and accessibility/508 checkpoints, along with customer requirements and approvals. Execute pre-engagement review and evaluation of websites. Perform quality checks and necessary remediations before publishing.
6. Maintain necessary reporting and documentation in appropriate tracking systems (such as JIRA, potentially others) - including but not limited to client pages, receipts of signed approvals, project issues, tasks and tickets.
7. This role is currently expected to work primarily via remote, but must be able to be onsite and/or remote as necessary, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. This is a high volume and high visibility position demanding reliable, timely delivery of high caliber service and work product.
2. At least 3 years' experience with Drupal 7 and Drupal 8/9 as a Site Builder, Front-End Developer, Backend Developer or equivalent. Experience in migrating Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 8/9, leveraging Drupal migration modules. Experience migrating content to Drupal from other CMS products.
3. Experience building responsive, accessibility compliant websites using Drupal, Twig in Drupal, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, SASS/LESS and JavaScript/jQuery. Experience with multi-site Drupal installs. Experience working in multiple environments using appropriate version control and continuous integration tools.
4. Thorough understanding of HTML forms and Drupal Webforms absolutely required. Deep familiarity with Drupal modules such as CTools, Views, Paragraphs, Panels, etc.
5. Must possess excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Ability to troubleshoot Accessibility/508 issues on the web and deliver standards compliant work product. Well-rounded knowledge of web technologies, web development tools, usage of social media, analytics, etc.
6. Must have fundamental project management skills, solid experience managing customer expectations on multiple projects, reliable project reporting. Experience with issue tracking and ticketing systems such as JIRA. Experience working with Agile or Scrum.
7. Experience training content editors in using Drupal. Demonstrated ability to discover, understand and communicate technical solutions and instructions with customers of varying levels of technical understanding.
8. Excellent organization, planning, prioritization skills and attention to detail. Ability to self-organize and work collaboratively with team members. Adaptation to multiple tasks and shifting work objectives.
9. Possess a 2- or 4-year degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent in applicable education and work experience.

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