Web Developer Master

Position Title & Code: Web Developer Master

Location: Washington DC 20003

Project End Date: 09/30/2026 (With Possible extension to next fiscal year)

Required Technical Skills:

• HTML & Markup:
  • Strong command of semantic HTML5: sectioning elements, headings hierarchy, lists, tables, and forms.
  • Solid grasp of web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA): ARIA roles and attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, alt text, and accessible form labeling.
  • Familiarity with structured data and SEO markup: meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Schema.org/JSON-LD.
  • Understanding of how Drupal renders markup through Twig, and the ability to produce clean, valid output via template overrides.
• CSS & Styling:
  • Deep working knowledge of modern CSS layout: Flexbox and CSS Grid, with sound judgment about when to use each.
  • Proficiency with responsive design: media queries, fluid typography, container queries, and mobile-first methodology.
  • Command of the cascade, specificity, and inheritance, with the ability to debug specificity conflicts rather than reaching for !important
  • Comfort with CSS custom properties (variables), modern color/spacing tokens, and maintainable theming patterns.
  • Awareness of cross-browser compatibility, vendor prefixing strategy, and progressive enhancement.
• Nice to Have:
  • Strong SCSS/SASS skills: nesting, mixins, functions, partials, and a disciplined file architecture.
  • A consistent CSS methodology such as BEM, and an understanding of how it maps onto Drupal's class conventions.
  • Familiarity with CSS transitions, transforms, and animations, used with attention to performance and reduced-motion preferences.
• JavaScript:
  • Solid command of modern JavaScript (ES6+): arrow functions, destructuring, modules, promises, and async/await.
  • Strong DOM manipulation and event-handling skills, including event delegation and performance-conscious listeners.
  • Fluency with the Fetch API and asynchronous data handling, including JSON parsing and error handling.
  • Working knowledge of Drupal's JavaScript layer: Drupal.behaviors, once(), Drupal Settings, and the AJAX framework
  • Understanding of how to attach and scope JS correctly through the Libraries API rather than inline scripts.
  • Familiarity with debugging via browser DevTools: breakpoints, the network panel, performance profiling, and the console.
• Nice to Have
  • Awareness of frontend performance: deferring/async loading, minimizing reflows, debouncing/throttling, and avoiding render-blocking scripts.
  • Experience with a build/tooling pipeline (Webpack, Vite, or Gulp) and with linting/formatting (ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint).
  • Exposure to a modern framework (React/Vue) is a plus, particularly for decoupled or partially decoupled Drupal frontends.

Drupal

• Site Administration & Configuration Management:
  • Fluency with the Drupal 9/10/11 admin UI: content types, fields, vocabularies, view modes, form/display modes, blocks, menus, URL aliases, and redirects.
  • Solid command of Configuration Management workflows: config export/import, config split for environment-specific config, config ignore for protected config.
  • Strong grasp of user access control: roles, permissions, content moderation workflows, and custom workflow states/transitions.
  • Demonstrated expertise with Views: complex queries, contextual filters, relationships, exposed filters/sorts, output rewriting, and REST exports.
  • Experience administering the Media Library, image styles, responsive image styles, and crop/focal-point strategies.
  • A clear mental model of what belongs in config vs. content vs. state vs. settings.php.
• Theming & Frontend:
  • Strong Twig skills: template suggestions, template preprocessing, and theme hook implementations.
  • Comfort with the Libraries API: defining JS/CSS, managing dependencies, and conditional loading.
  • Experience with modern base themes (Olivero/Stable9) and component-based theming.
  • Familiarity with Single Directory Components (SDC) for Drupal 10.3+.
  • Solid responsive design fundamentals, a disciplined CSS methodology (e.g., BEM), and SCSS/SASS proficiency.
• Multi-Domain / Multi-Site (Nice to Have):
  • Hands-on experience with the Domain Access module: domain entities, domain access fields on content/users/blocks, and current-domain negotiation.
  • Practical command of the Domain Config module, including domain-specific config overrides and override precedence (settings.php > Domain Config UI > base config)
  • A clear understanding of how config overrides cascade, and why programmatic overrides in settings.php will silently take precedence over UI changes
  • Familiarity with cache contexts and invalidation in a multi-domain context.
  • Experience with domain-aware menu, block, and pathauto strategies, and with cross-domain content sharing vs. domain-restricted content patterns
• Security:
  • Disciplined input sanitization and output escaping (XSS, Html, URL filters; Twig auto escaping).
  • A reflexive habit of using placeholders to prevent SQL injection and applying access checks on entity queries.
  • Working knowledge of file-upload security, CSRF tokens, and trusted host patterns.
  • Experience conducting permission audits and reviewing for privilege escalation.
• DevOps, Deployment & Tooling:
  • Understanding of Git workflows: feature branches, rebase vs. merge, conflict resolution, and hotfix patterns.
  • Strong Drush proficiency, including cache rebuilds, config import/export, user management.
  • Competence with Composer for project scaffolding, patching, and autoloader generation.
  • Experience with a local development environment, ideally Lando (DDEV/Docksal also welcome).
• Nice to Have:
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (BLT, GitHub Actions, or Acquia Pipelines).
  • Hands-on Acquia Cloud experience: environments, Cloud Hooks, code/database/files workflow, and Acquia CLI.
  • Comfort with multi-database configuration and routing.
• Integration & Standards (Nice to Have):
  • Experience building and consuming REST APIs: JSON:API, the REST module, and custom REST resources.
  • Experience with common third-party integrations: analytics and marketing automation.
• Working Style & Collaboration:
  • The ability to write technical documentation that a non-developer content editor can follow.
  • A methodical diagnostic approach - able to walk through debugging complex issues without guesswork.
  • Good code-review hygiene: readable commits, descriptive PRs, and openness to feedback.
  • Adherence to Drupal community coding standards (PHPCS with the Drupal and Drupal Practice rulesets).

Responsibilities:

• Performs programming and technical work for website and Internet development.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience.

Skill Assessment: (Please include the years of experience last used and brief description on skills below, information is to be submitted along with the resume)

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount of Experience

Years of Experience

16+ yrs. performing specialized (often advanced) programming and technical development for the Internet

Required

16 Years

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience may be substituted).

Required

At least three (3) years of hands-on Drupal development (Drupal 7 and 9, 10, or 11 required).

Required

3 Years

Demonstrated proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Twig.

Required

Experience with Composer, Drush, Git, and MySQL/MariaDB.

Required

Working knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.

Required

Acquia Certified Developer or Site Builder credential.

Highly desired

Experience with headless/decoupled Drupal (JSON:API, GraphQL).

Highly desired

Familiarity with Acquia Cloud, Pantheon, or AWS hosting environments.

Highly desired

Prior experience supporting District, state, or federal government web platforms.

Highly desired

Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker.

Highly desired