Drupal Technical Lead
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Job Description
Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP Hogarth partners with one in every two of the worlds top 100 brands including CocaCola Ford Rolex Nestl Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant engaging and measurable content across all channels and media both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7500 craft and technology experts brings together creative production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and everchanging world of todays content experience.
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people planet clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries with corporate headquarters in New York London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services with deep AI data and technology capabilities global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.Our people are the key to our success. Were committed to fostering a culture of creativity belonging and continuous learning attracting and developing the brightest talent and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
Technical Lead
Key Role Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of developers providing technical guidance support and expertise.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams including product managers designers and QA engineers to define technical requirements and project milestones.
- Drive the technical direction architecture and implementation strategies for decoupled CMS projects.
- Ensure adherence to best practices coding standards and quality guidelines throughout the development process.
- Develop and maintain robust scalable and highperformance web applications using modern web technologies.
- Implement decoupled CMS solutions integrating frontend frameworks with backend CMS platforms.
- Design and develop APIs Microservices and other serverside components to support decoupled architectures.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration between the presentation layer and the decoupled CMS.
- Demonstrate strong proficiency in decoupled CMS platforms specifically Drupal Sitecore or Umbraco.
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and advancements in web development decoupled architectures and CMS technologies.
- Provide technical guidance and recommendations for selecting the most appropriate CMS platform based on project requirements.
- Work closely with project managers to define project scope timelines and resource allocation.
- Participate in sprint planning backlog grooming and other Agile development processes.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges ensuring timely delivery of highquality software solutions.
Key Candidate Requirements
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer with a focus on decoupled CMS solutions.
- Strong background in developing web applications using modern frontend and backend technologies.
Skills:
- Proficiency in decoupled CMS platforms ideally Drupal.
- Strong expertise in frontend technologies such as JavaScript (ES6 HTML5 CSS3 and frontend frameworks like React Angular or Vue.js.
- Experience with serverside technologies such as Node.js PHP .NET or Java.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs GraphQL and other API integration techniques.
- Knowledge of database systems (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL) and proficiency in SQL.
- Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of developers.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams.
- Ability to provide technical guidance conduct code reviews and promote best practices.
- Excellent problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud).
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of agile software development methodologies.
Drupal Specific Requirements
- Drupal Development Expertise:
- Extensive experience in building and maintaining Drupalbased web applications with proficiency in Drupal 9
- Strong understanding of Drupals core API hooks and custom module development.
- Proven ability to develop reusable Drupal modules and themes to meet specific project requirements.
- Expertise in leveraging Drupals theming layer and creating responsive adaptive themes that integrate seamlessly with modern frontend frameworks.
- Experience implementing decoupled (headless) Drupal architectures including building and consuming APIs to deliver content to frontend applications.
- Familiarity with GraphQL or JSON for integrating Drupal as a content repository with frontend JavaScript frameworks.
- Drupal Configuration experience:
- Strong understanding of Drupals Configuration Management system to manage site configurations effectively across different environments and large multisite deployments.
- Experience in designing complex content workflows using Drupals Workbench or other content moderation tools.
- Proficiency in setting up and managing user roles permissions and access control to enforce security best practices.
- Familiarity with Drupals multilingual capabilities to manage content across different languages.
- Experience with multisite configurations for managing multiple websites from a single Drupal instance.
- Expertise in optimizing Drupal performance including caching strategies using tools like Drupal Cache API Varnish and Memcached.
- Experience with database tuning and performance analysis to ensure Drupal applications run efficiently.
- Ability to identify and select contributed modules based on project needs and familiarity with evaluating module stability and support.
- Bonus
- Experience contributing to the Drupal community including writing patches or supporting contributed modules is a plus.
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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Employment Type
Full Time
