Drupal Developer

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for the Drupal Developer to join our global team.

Job Title: Drupal Developer

Team: Applications Development

Reports To: Senior Manager Product Development (Web)

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: P3

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location.

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

Language Requirements: English

International Travel Requirements: No

Budget Responsibility: None

People Management Responsibility (direct/indirect reports)

Number of people managed in total: None

Manager of a team: No

Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): No

Team purpose
Purpose of the team is to lead on the development and configuration of Save the Childrens global business and operating applications used across SCI and Members. The team are key to maintaining the application portfolio as fit for purpose and developing new and existing systems in line with business requirements maximising the value they deliver and enabling our organisation to achieve impact for children. Working in partnership with Transformation Delivery the team are accountable for delivery of application developments for Transformation Delivery projects SCI Functions and internal IT functions.

Role purpose
The role holder will be responsible for delivery of large and complex transformation projects in partnership with internal stakeholders and external partners. The role involves designing building and continually improving Drupal-based web applications as well as working on a wide range of other web applications using different technologies. The role holder will focus on creating highly available test-driven fast and resilient websites while setting up best practices for others to adhere to. The role also involves coaching and mentoring other developers to consolidate a strong in-house SCRUM team.

Working with the infrastructure team and the IT security team the role holder will be responsible for setting up and maintaining relevant environments and to ensure security and reliability of all systems as well as ensuring all integration pieces with other internal systems are managed correctly to minimise the risk and impact of changes.

Principal Accountabilities

• Design and build web applications based on detailed requirements.
• Create high-performance dynamic templates from flat design files.
• Ensure optimization availability and reliability of web applications.
• Develop custom Drupal modules to build advanced features and integrate with external systems.
• Collaborate with the digital fundraising team to optimize organic search and conversion rates.
• Influence architecture decisions to build future-proof solutions.
• Design and manage the release process and the product lifecycle.
• Build effective CI/CD pipelines for immediate feedback and fast product iterations.
• Lead and establish best practices for Drupal development within the organization.
• Advocate for test-driven development design unit test strategies and work with the testing team on integration and automated testing.

Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Considerable experience as a Drupal developer with strong Drupal 8/9 expertise.
2. Experience working on a multi-site Drupal platform with a global user base.
3. Excellent knowledge of PHP 7/8 and experience with PHP frameworks.
4. Strong experience in object-oriented PHP and building custom Drupal modules.
5. Expertise in creating themes and templates and familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA).
6. Experience optimizing performance working with caching CDNs and web application security principles (e.g. OWASP top ten).
7. Strong skills in HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript and experience with Bootstrap or other SASS frameworks.
8. Experience with JS frameworks like AngularJS or React/Redux and good working knowledge of and build automation tools (e.g. Gulp).
9. Expert knowledge of GIT branching strategies and experience working in a multi-developer SCRUM team.
10. Ability to lead development projects manage CI/CD pipelines and advocate for TDD writing unit tests (PHPUnit) and automated testing.

Desirable

• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience.
• Experience working in Drupal v7 and above.
• Experience working with headless and serverless architectures.
• Experience of working in organisations with international activities.
• Managing SCRUM Teams.
• SCRUM certifications (CSM)

Key Relationships

Internal (excluding direct team and manager)

• Business Product Owners
• Business Stakeholders
• Transformation Delivery (TD) (PMO Project Teams Business Analysis)
• Functional Experts (Business and IT)
• Other IT teams (specifically Testing and Release Management Architecture BI Operations and Support)

External

• Vendors
• 3rd Party Support organisations

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriate professional qualifications in technology.

Desirable

• A degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.

Working at Save the ChildrenInternational

Save the Childrenis the worlds leading organisation for children employing save childrens lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their our work in 116 countries we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition creativity and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children you will be in good company working with talented like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive learn and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure childrens voices are heard at the highest levels and that we achieve our global strategy Ambition for Children 2030 and reach every last child.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse equitable and inclusive organisation and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival protection development and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender sexual orientation race colour ethnic origin nationality disability marital or civil partnership status gender reassignment pregnancy and maternity caring or parental responsibilities age or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found herevia the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our recruitment process:

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitmentmay include an additional assessment or case study stage or a third stage interview
4. If successful you will receive a conditional offer of employment followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment Health and Safety Safeguarding and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.