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Education: Bachelor's Clearance Required: Public Trust - Full Clearance Role Title Front End Drupal Developer Start Date for assignment 09/12/2024 End Date for assignment 12/25/2024 # of Resources Needed 3 Hours per Week 40 Job Description This work is ¿Sold ¿Unsold Specialization: NA Technical Skills: Skill Years/Level of Experience Drupal P3 - Advanced CSS HTML P4 - Expert Accessible Design P3 - Advanced JavaScript (jQuery) P3 - Advanced JavaScript P3 - Advanced P1 - Beginner (0-2 yrs experience) P2 - Intermediate (3-5 yrs experience) P3 - Advanced (7-10 yrs experience P4 - Expert (10+ yrs experience) Role Description: We are currently looking to add an experienced Drupal CMS front end developer to support development and maintenance activities for the Drupal content management system (CMS) that powers a Federal Agency's intranet and public-facing websites. The successful candidate will perform the following:

• Create, edit or modify Drupal theme/front-end templates, based on community best practices and coding standards
• Interpret graphic visual or interaction designs and turn them into working HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Create visually appealing web pages or interfaces using advanced HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Create interactions with JavaScript and/or a library such as jQuery, AngularJS
• Conduct unit tests of front-end code for cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility inconsistencies
• Test for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the client's region or domain
• Conduct observational user testing or reviewing designs against usability heuristics
• Identify bottlenecks and optimizing code for speed and efficiency
• Implementing security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities
• Support clients and team members in debugging issues, resolving errors, and ensuring smooth site operation
• Work closely with other project team members using an agile workflow, communicate constantly, and attend key client or deliverable meetings as needed
• Report regular status, escalate any major decisions, issues, and risks to the appropriate team member

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline
• At least four (4) years of recent experience with theming Drupal websites (including significant Drupal 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x experience)
• Experience with implementing and modifying responsive Drupal web sites
• Experience with implementing and modifying search result pages for Drupal sites
• Experience implementing and modifying Drupal multilingual capabilities
• Experience implementing accessible front-end code following WCAG accessibility guidelines
• Ability to work independently to assess and address any issues
• Prior experience working on a cross-functional team using an agile methodology
• Advanced knowledge of current web development standards (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)

- Best practices:

• Methods to ensure browser and device compatibility
• Methods for degrading gracefully for older browsers and displays
• Methods to ensure accessibility
• File compression and other front-end techniques for improving page performance

Preferred Technical Skills: The ideal candidate has prior experience with the following: - JIRA and Confluence

- PHP:

• Familiarity with modifying Drupal Theme hooks to display data
• Understanding how to utilize PHP to filter, process and output HTML, JSON, XML

- JavaScript:

• Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods
• Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions
• Web forms, submitting data, and the use of regular expression validation
• Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements
• Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties
• Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues

- jQuery: - Knowledge of how to employ the jQuery library for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation

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