Drupal & PHP Lead

Missions

• Lead a team and be responsible for the planning and distribution of tasks within his/her team depending on projects.
• Create a team spirit, share knowledge and provide support as and when required.
• Keep our knowledge database up-to-date.
• Encourage collaboration and address issues that impact performance of team members.
• Provide consultancy services to the client and translate technical jargon into business language and vice versa.
• Perform day-to-day project management tasks.
• Ensure client and company expectations are met in terms of quality of deliverables, cost and time elements.
• Identify and flag high-risk issues, which can jeopardize good delivery on projects.
• Coordinate Unit, Integration and Stress testing of all components of applications we develop and/or implement.
• Create and maintain documentation and deliverables and ensure team is adhering to the prescribed methodology.
• Analyze the root cause of issues and attend to them, troubleshooting and resolving them in a timely manner and providing permanent solutions.
• Be responsible for the task status reporting for team members up the reporting line.
• Participate in technical meetings and provide support relating to our clients’ requirements.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable Drupal modules.
• Ensure coding standards are at their best level and perform quality assurance on development work.
• Keep up to date with latest technology.
• Contribute to and participate in R&D.
• Develop prototypes and applications.
• Participate in identifying and developing business opportunities at existing/new clients.
• Work on project implementation proposals.

Mandatory Requirements

• Degree Holder in Information Technology.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Drupal and PHP development projects.
• Team management and coaching skills.

Core Competencies

• Good communication, presentation and writing skills.
• Good time management and relationship management skills.
• Strong inter personal skills.
• Good negotiation skills and outgoing personality.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Conflict management skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated.

Work Experience

• Proven software development experience in PHP.
• Extensive knowledge of web technologies, in particular Drupal CMS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Understanding of design patterns, such as PAC and MVC.
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming and Agile environment.
• Familiarity with SQL/MySQL databases and Linux OS.