Position: Senior Drupal Developer

Experience: 6 - 10 Years

Location: Preferably Chennai

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Drupal Developer with 6 - 10 years of hands-on experience in architecting, developing, and maintaining enterprise-scale Drupal applications. The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in modern Drupal architecture, custom module development, API integrations, performance optimization, and cloud-based deployments.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise Drupal applications using Drupal 9/10/11.
- Build scalable custom modules, themes, plugins, and reusable components.
- Develop responsive, accessible, and high-performance web applications.
- Integrate Drupal with enterprise systems using REST, JSON APIs, GraphQL, SOAP, and middleware solutions.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, UX Designers, Architects, QA, and DevOps teams.
- Participate in architecture discussions and recommend best practices.
- Optimize website performance, caching, and database efficiency.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Ensure adherence to coding standards, security guidelines, and Drupal best practices.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide long-term technical solutions.
- Support CI/CD implementation and deployment automation.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement,



and retrospectives.
- Produce technical documentation and architecture diagrams when required.

Required Technical Skills

Drupal

- 10+ years of Drupal development experience
- Strong expertise in:
- Drupal 8/9/10/11
- Custom Module Development
- Custom Theme Development
- Configuration Management
- Views
- Paragraphs
- Layout Builder
- Webforms
- Content Moderation
- Media Management
- Multisite Architecture
- Multilingual Implementations
- Drupal Migration APIs
- Drupal Services
- Plugin Architecture
- Event Subscribers
- Custom Entities

PHP

- PHP 8.x
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Dependency Injection
- Composer
- PSR Standards
- Design Patterns

Preferred Experience Candidates with experience in the following areas will be highly preferred:

- Higher Education platforms
- University websites
- Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
- Enterprise CMS implementations
- Multi-site Drupal implementations
- Headless Drupal
- Decoupled Drupal Architecture
- Acquia Site Factory
- Acquia DAM
- Acquia Search
- AI-powered Drupal modules and integrations
- Migration from legacy CMS platforms

Soft Skills

- Robust communication skills
- Excellent stakeholder management
- Problem-solving mindset
- Ability to work independently
- Strong mentoring capability
- Customer-facing experience
- Excellent documentation skills
- Team collaboration

📌 Drupal Developer (Chennai)
🏢 ACL Digital
📍 Chennai