Senior Drupal Developer
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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Senior Drupal Developer with 5+ years of experience, specifically 4+ years in Drupal. Must have deep Drupal core knowledge, custom module development, Form API, Twig, Drush, and community modules. Needs strong PHP, OOP, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL, and RESTful/GraphQL API experience. Familiarity with Composer, Git, CI/CD, and Docker is required. Must be able to lead technical decisions and mentor junior developers.
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**About EnsembleIQ
EnsembleIQ is the premier resource of actionable insights and connections powering business growth throughout the path to purchase. We help retail, technology, consumer goods, healthcare and hospitality professionals make informed decisions and gain a competitive advantage. EnsembleIQ delivers the most trusted business intelligence from leading industry experts, creative marketing solutions and impactful event experiences that connect best-in-class suppliers and service providers with our vibrant business-building communities. Our vision is to be the premier resource of actionable insights and connections powering business growth for retail, technology, consumer goods, healthcare and hospitality professionals.
**About The Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly analytical **Senior Drupal Developer (5+ years of experience) to lead the architecture, development, and modernization of our enterprise-level CMS systems. In this role, you will be the technical anchor for our Drupal ecosystem, managing custom module development, improving our content publishing workflow, and helping set our Drupal development roadmap.
As a key contributor in our development team, you will assist teammates with integrations and UI projects that leverage the projects you lead. You will work closely with cross-functional teammates to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing digital experiences, mentoring junior team members along the way.
**Key Responsibilitie s
- **Architecture & Development: Design, build and enhance our enterprise Drupal implementations (Drupal 11+), creating custom modules, themes, and API integrations.
- **Database & Data Management: Architect robust database schemas, write high-performance queries, and execute on complex data migrations, disaster recovery plans, and system integrations.
- **Security & Performance: Conduct security reviews, optimize application performance (caching, query optimization), and ensure high availability by design.
- **Technical Leadership: Lead technical decision-making, establish coding standards, perform thorough code reviews, and mentor mid-level/junior developers
**Job Requirements
- **Experience: Minimum 5+ years of professional backend web development, with at least 4 years dedicated specifically to **Drupal.
- **Drupal Expertise: Deep understanding of Drupal core, custom module development, the Form API, Twig templating, Drush, and the Drupal community module ecosystem.
- **Front-end Familiarity: Ability to work with front-end technologies and teams to integrate CMS project delivery with additional systems
- **Backend & Databases: Strong proficiency in PHP, object-oriented programming (OOP), and advanced database design/management (**MySQL/MariaDB and/or PostgreSQL).
- **APIs & Integration: Extensive experience building and consuming RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
- **DevOps & Workflow: Experience with Composer, Git workflow, Continuous Integration & Delivery, and local development environments (e.g., DDEV, Lando, and Docker).
- **Leadership & Mentorship: A natural ability to collaborate with team members - guiding, supporting, and elevating team skills and maintaining a cooperative team spirit.
- **Analytical Thinking: Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex architectural bottlenecks.
- **Clear Communication: The ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely.
**Distinct Assets (Nice-to-Haves)
- Strong experience managing hosting, caching, and routing via **Cloudflare (Workers, KV, WAF).
- Cloud infrastructure experience, specifically deploying and managing applications on ****Google Cloud Platform (GCP)**.
- Acquia or Drupal Association certifications.
- Understanding of Cloud Hosting platform patterns (Kubernetes, Serverless Functions, etc)
Check out what it's like to work at EnsembleIQ.
_EnsembleIQ is an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide accommodations at all stages through recruitment and employment in accordance with Human Rights and accommodation legislation upon request.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, development, and modernization of enterprise-level CMS systems.
- Manage custom module development.
- Improve content publishing workflow.
- Help set the Drupal development roadmap.
- Assist teammates with integrations and UI projects.
- Work closely with cross-functional teammates to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing digital experiences.
- Mentor junior team members.
- Design, build and enhance enterprise Drupal implementations (Drupal 11+).
- Create custom modules, themes, and API integrations.
- Architect robust database schemas.
- Write high-performance queries.
- Execute on complex data migrations, disaster recovery plans, and system integrations.
- Conduct security reviews.
- Optimize application performance (caching, query optimization).
- Ensure high availability by design.
- Lead technical decision-making.
- Establish coding standards.
- Perform thorough code reviews.
- Mentor mid-level/junior developers.
What they require
- Minimum 5+ years of professional backend web development.
- At least 4 years dedicated specifically to Drupal.
- Deep understanding of the Drupal community module ecosystem.
- Ability to work with front-end technologies and teams to integrate CMS project delivery with additional systems.
- Strong proficiency in PHP, object-oriented programming (OOP), and advanced database design/management.
- Extensive experience building and consuming RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with Composer, Git workflow, Continuous Integration & Delivery, and local development environments (e.g., DDEV, Lando, and Docker).
- A natural ability to collaborate with team members - guiding, supporting, and elevating team skills and maintaining a cooperative team spirit.
- Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex architectural bottlenecks.
- The ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders clearly and concisely.
Benefits
- EnsembleIQ is an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We provide accommodations at all stages through recruitment and employment in accordance with Human Rights and accommodation legislation upon request.
EnsembleIQ is the premier resource of actionable insights and connections powering business growth throughout the path to purchase. We help retail, technology, consumer goods, healthcare and hospitality professionals make informed decisions and gain a competitive advantage. EnsembleIQ delivers the most trusted business intelligence from leading industry experts, creative marketing solutions and impactful event experiences that connect best-in-class suppliers and service providers with our vibrant business-building communities. Our vision is to be the premier resource of actionable insights and connections powering business growth for retail, technology, consumer goods, healthcare and hospitality professionals.