Drupal (GovCMS) Software Developer (PROJ-4693)

Key duties and responsibilities

• Manage website enhancement and sustainment projects utilising the GovCMS platform, Drupal Theming with Twig and PHP Theme pre-processing. 
• Work with UX/UI specialists to implement appropriate web designs, styles and branding to meet both user and business needs. 
• Ongoing information architecture maintenance and improvements. 
• Mange publishing workflows and content updates. 
• Proactively manage risks and issues to minimise business and user impacts. 
• Adhere to security standards and maintain currency of knowledge regarding the organisations' information security environment. 

Technical skills

• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing and enhancing websites on GovCMS.
• Knowledge of WCAG Accessibility requirements.

Essential criteria

• Programming/software development: Level 4 (SFIA)

Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools and techniques. Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

• Release and deployment: Level 4 (SFIA)

Assesses and analyses release components for input to release scheduling. Maintains and administers tools and methods for software delivery, deployment and configuration. Maintains release processes and procedures.

• Software design: Level 3 (SFIA)

Undertakes complete design of moderately complex software applications or components. Applies agreed standards, guidelines, patterns and tools. Assists as part of a team in the design of components of larger software systems. Specifies user and/or system interfaces. Creates multiple design views to address the different stakeholders' concerns and to handle functional and non-functional requirements. Assists in the evaluation of options and trade-offs. Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.

• Systems integration and build: Level 4 (SFIA)

Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing. Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. Defines complex/new integration builds. Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured. Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build. Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system. Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

• Testing: Level 3 (SFIA)

Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting test outcomes. Participates in requirement, design and specification reviews, and uses this information to design test plans and test conditions. Applies agreed standards to specify and perform manual and automated testing. Automates testing tasks and builds test coverage through existing or new infrastructure. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks.