Drupal Developer - Cambridge UK | Opportunity Links

We're looking for hard-core Drupal developers in the South East to play a critical role in developing a new online service...

Job Title: Drupal Developer
Location: Cambridge
Organisation: Opportunity Links (www.opportunitylinks.co.uk)
Hours: 37.5 hrs per wk – Monday to Friday. Fixed term contract to March 2011

Overview:

The beGrand.net service will create a national online community combining high quality content with interactive services that will engage, inform and support grandparents. The service is fully funded through a government innovation contract to March 2011, with the expectation of sustainability beyond this date. We are looking for a highly experienced developer to implement the service on the Drupal platform.

You will be working as part of a dedicated project team with support from Opportunity Links’ (OL) technical team who will provide infrastructure, testing and technical design authority services.

You will be responsible for developing the service on the Drupal platform including writing custom themes and modules, and integration with third party tools. Your role will be to interpret design requirements and provide recommendations on the best way to implement the service on the Drupal platform to deliver a robust and scalable service.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Create well written and integrated Drupal modules to deliver custom functionality
  
• Implement design requirements with custom themes
  
• Develop Drupal page templates
  
• Provide support to the test team to develop a robust test strategy
  
• Produce technical documentation as required
  
• Ensure that development work meets required timescales and milestones
  

Skills/Attributes:

Essential:

• Experienced PHP developer
  
• Demonstrable experience of working on Drupal modules and theme development
  
• Familiarity with MySQL
  
• An understanding of how to embed analytics to understand the behaviour of users and identify optimisation opportunities
  
• Familiarity with a formal web design process and agile approaches to web development
  
• Can work under pressure individually and with colleagues
  

Desirable:

• Track record of contributing to the Drupal project (provide your profile link)
  
• Experience with a Javascript framework such as JQuery
  
• Understanding of government web design standards
  
• Experience of Drupal scaling
  

To Apply:

Send CV and covering letter to Louise Foubister, HR Manager, at Opportunity Links, Trust Court, The Vision Park, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9PW or via email to: louise.foubister@opp-links.org.uk Please include links to websites and modules you have worked on stating your involvement in each case.