Drupal Technical Lead

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Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, 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 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.

Technical Lead

Key Role Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, providing technical guidance, support, and expertise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional 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 high-performance web applications using modern web technologies.
• Implement decoupled CMS solutions, integrating front-end frameworks with back-end CMS platforms.
• Design and develop APIs, Microservices, and other server-side components to support decoupled architectures.
• Collaborate with front-end 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 high-quality 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 front-end and back-end technologies.
  
  

Skills

• Proficiency in decoupled CMS platforms, ideally Drupal.
• Strong expertise in front-end technologies such as JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and front-end frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience with server-side 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 cross-functional teams.
• Ability to provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and promote best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making 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 Drupal-based web applications, with proficiency in Drupal 9+
• Strong understanding of Drupal's core API, hooks, and custom module development.
• Proven ability to develop reusable Drupal modules and themes to meet specific project requirements.
• Expertise in leveraging Drupal's theming layer and creating responsive, adaptive themes that integrate seamlessly with modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience implementing decoupled (headless) Drupal architectures, including building and consuming APIs to deliver content to front-end applications.
• Familiarity with GraphQL or JSON for integrating Drupal as a content repository with front-end JavaScript frameworks.
• Drupal Configuration experience:
• Strong understanding of Drupal's Configuration Management system to manage site configurations effectively across different environments and large multisite deployments.
• Experience in designing complex content workflows using Drupal's 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 Drupal's 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.
  

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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