Drupal Architect

Role: Web Solution Architect/Technical Product Owner

Location: UK (Preferred)

Duration: Long Term

Job Description Summary

As a Web Solutions Architect for Marketing web applications tools and technologies you would work with Marketing Stakeholders of GE Digital BUs Branding and Design Agencies to lead discovery calls Information architecture workshops Taxonomy definitions develop Persona maps User Journeys Functional requirement gathering translate functional use cases to technical features/stories distilling Wireframes in to technical features/stories make scalable architectural decisions and lead frontend and backend application solution design UAT signoff and delivery in collaboration with developers QA Engineers and business owners.

Ideal candidate must have had consulting agency experience leading and building successful Web Applications in collaboration with multiple business units.

Job Description

Work with MFG/PGOG/GRID Marketing business stakeholders brand champions design teams agencies content managers to setup workshops to collect business requirements KPIs functional use cases and translate them into executable technical features.

Participate in UX/UI sessions guide design agencies on Drupal CMS best practices to develop reusable component designs in particularly atomic designs. Design and architect Web UX/UI Components to map to Drupal CMS. Define design and architect web component reusable data models in Drupal.

Coordinate and be the single point of contact for Design handoffs to Web Development team.

Design and architect headless integrations drive and recommend technical guidance to build a brandnew web application. Define and develop technical roadmaps with sprint cycles estimations and capacity planning.

Design and solution custom frontend web applications and/or Drupal components and themes Email templates Salesforce Lightning components and Marketing landing pages.

Design and build web applications that meet WAIARIA SEO and Core Web Vitals with good page speed grades that are responsive across devices and browsers.

Provide technical consultation services across Marketing suite of tools over the business process areas of improvement.

Define and deploy QA automation frameworks tools and processes across the platforms.

Ensure that team members treat their new environment as a design pattern and embrace it in their daily routine.

Continuously integrate and deploy releasable changes through GIT CI/CD pipelines

Orchestrate production releases and deployments.

Host team meeting/sprints/huddles to triage the work assignment and track the team progress. Provide your valuable insight to help the team grow and scale.

Evaluate new tools/technologies and support Marketing ecosystem tools.

Qualifications/Requirements:

Bachelors degree in computer science or STEM Majors (Science Technology Engineering and Math)

8 years of experience in Drupal CMS Architecture Design and Development.

5 years of experience working on React or Angular JS HTML CSS JavaScript

2 years of experience in converting wireframes/redlines/mockups into responsive functional web applications on various view ports.

Experience and familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (Rally JIRA CI/CD)

Desired Characteristics: Strong communication skills in listening writing speaking and leadership presentations.

Work as an individual contributor as well as lead major backend and frontend development projects as a team with fellow developers.

Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies. High attention to detail is essential with critical thinking ability.

4 Years experience of Drupal core development experience

Must have led at least two groundup web application development projects as a Solution Architect/Technical Product Owner. Must have experience conducting workshops with business stakeholders in North America.