Technical Lead - Drupal

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Main location: Canada, British Columbia, Victoria

Position ID:J0626-2045

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

We are seeking an experienced Drupal Team Lead to provide technical leadership, hands on development, solution guidance, and delivery oversight for Drupal based web initiatives. This role is ideal for a senior Drupal professional who can lead a team, shape technical direction, work directly with client stakeholders, and contribute directly to complex front end and back end development tasks.

The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in Drupal architecture, site building, custom module development, theming, integrations, accessibility, and DevOps oriented delivery practices. They will be responsible for guiding Drupal implementation approaches, mentoring developers, reviewing code and designs, ensuring adherence to Drupal best practices, and supporting the successful delivery of high quality, accessible, maintainable digital services.
This role requires strong hands on skills in PHP, Drupal APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Twig, configuration management, and integration patterns, as well as the ability to lead technical discussions, estimate work, define implementation strategies, and collaborate effectively with client and internal delivery teams.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

The Drupal Team Lead will be responsible for:
. Leading Drupal delivery from planning through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing enhancement.
. Providing technical direction for Drupal architecture, module development, theming, integrations, and content modelling.
. Guiding the use of Drupal core and contributed modules, including Paragraphs, Layout Builder, Views, Media, Entity Reference, Fields, Blocks, Taxonomy, Menus, and configuration management.
. Designing and implementing custom Drupal modules using hooks, plugins, services, event subscribers, Form API, custom entities, route controllers, and Drupal APIs.
. Leading front end implementation using Twig templates, Drupal theme layer customizations, responsive design practices, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
. Translating wireframes, design systems, and style guides into maintainable Drupal templates and components.
. Ensuring consistent styling, accessibility, responsiveness, and cross browser compatibility across Drupal sites.
. Advising clients on solution design, technical options, architecture decisions, tools, risks, and implementation approaches.
. Reviewing code, technical designs, and configuration changes to ensure quality, maintainability, performance, security, and alignment with Drupal standards.
. Coaching and mentoring Drupal developers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, technical guidance, and best practice development.
. Collaborating with client stakeholders, product owners, UX/design teams, developers, QA, DevOps, and delivery leads.
. Supporting planning, estimation, backlog refinement, technical discovery, and definition of delivery approaches.
. Troubleshooting complex technical issues across Drupal, front end implementation, integrations, environments, and deployment workflows.
. Supporting CI/CD, containerized development environments, configuration management, release processes, and DevOps practices.
. Ensuring solutions align with accessibility requirements, security standards, performance expectations, and government digital delivery practices.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. Proven experience as a Senior Drupal Developer, Drupal Technical Lead, or Drupal Team Lead.
. Strong experience leading Drupal site builds end to end, including planning, estimation, technical approach definition, development, deployment, and support.
. Deep understanding of Drupal core architecture, Drupal APIs, hooks, plugins, services, event subscribers, routing, configuration management, and entity systems.
. Expertise with Drupal core and site building features, including Fields, Views, Blocks, Taxonomy, Menus, Media, Layout Builder, Paragraphs, Entity Reference, content types, view modes, form displays, and field formatters.
. Extensive experience creating custom Drupal modules from scratch while following Drupal coding standards and best practices.
. Advanced Drupal theming experience, including Twig templates, theme functions, template suggestions, preprocess functions, and custom theme layer implementation.
. Strong proficiency with PHP 8+, HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, and responsive web development.
. Ability to convert wireframes, design systems, and comprehensive layouts into Drupal templates and reusable components.
. Strong understanding of responsive and adaptive design, browser compatibility, accessibility, and user experience considerations.
. Experience integrating Drupal with external systems using RESTful APIs, JSON:API, API development patterns, and integration best practices.
. Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, DevOps practices, containerized development environments, and Drupal deployment processes.
. Strong hands on debugging, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
. Ability to work closely with clients to understand business needs, guide solution design, and influence technical direction.
. Demonstrated ability to mentor developers, review code and designs, promote development standards, and foster technical excellence.
. Strong collaboration skills with client stakeholders, internal teams, designers, QA, DevOps, and delivery leadership.
. Familiarity with BC Government digital standards, accessibility requirements, media handling, and style guide expectations is an asset.

The Drupal Team Lead should demonstrate:

. Technical Leadership Ability to define Drupal architecture, guide implementation decisions, establish standards, and ensure the team follows sustainable Drupal practices.
. Client Leadership Ability to understand client needs, explain technical options clearly, influence technical direction, and support informed decision making.
. Hands On Contribution Ability to directly contribute to complex coding, debugging, theming, integration, and optimization work when required.
. Coaching and Mentoring Ability to support team growth through code reviews, technical guidance, design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
. Delivery Ownership Ability to support planning, estimation, prioritization, technical risk management, and delivery execution across Drupal initiatives.
. Collaboration Ability to work effectively across client, delivery, development, QA, UX, accessibility, and DevOps teams to ensure alignment and technical excellence.

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CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $85,000 - $160,000.

Skills:

• Agile
• Client management
• CSS
• DevOps
• Drupal
• Drupal PHP
• English
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Leadership
• Mentoring and coaching
• Solutions Architecture