SORRY THIS ROLE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE - OCT 2011

SORRY THESE ROLE HAS NOW BEEN FILLED - OCT 2011

Positions - Drupal Configurers

The Role:
I am recruiting at several levels of seniority and experience to add to their team, from those analysts relatively new to Drupal with 2-3 Drupal projects or equivalent experience, through to product owners and scrum masters with experience of delivering 30+ projects and of that delivering a minimum of 10+ projects using Drupal

Role objectives:
· To build web and mobile sites using Drupal within projects and working for some of the largest blue chip organisations in the UK
· Actively and proactively working closely with developers, release project managers, solution architects, business analysts, testers and content/data migrations consultants, as well as with the teams working on development and configuration of non-Drupal components such as the SaaS, Customer management and eCommerce components amongst others
·To network with other Drupal practitioners in other geographies; primarily France, Holland and India, initially, who have existing PHP and Drupal teams and other country operations as they are formed

Optional: To contribute to Drupal community modules, themes and projects.

Skills/Experience

Strong Drupal Configuration
Web site Creation and Administration
Content Management System configuration
Web site Navigation, and Taxonomy Management
Experience with Web Site Information Architecture
Requirements Elicitation
Product / Functional & Technical Specification
Presentation, Meeting Facilitation and Client Interaction
Enterprise-class Configuration Management
Web Site Content migration (Desirable)
Drupal Development & PHP application development - significant experience current hand (Desirable)
Experience with Web Site Tagging and Analytics (Desirable)
Experience with Search Engine Optimisation (Desirable)
Experience with A/B & Multivariate Testing, and Behavioural Targeting (Desirable)
Complex applications integration environments (Desirable)
Structured programme – some appreciation, expertise (Desirable)
Agile Methodologies – some knowledge expertise (Desirable)

Key Responsibilities

To elicit the vision for the site(s) with the client’s digital team directly and/or with the project solution team, and to then specify the features, functions, attributes and work-packages needed in Drupal to realise it
To collaborate with others to define the content types, leading the building of them where appropriate, and assuring the building of them by others where appropriate
To collaborate with others in the definition of the types of page layouts and to lead the configuration of the individual cases. Delegating work where appropriate and performing it directly where appropriate
To collaborate with the content migration lead around how they migrate the content into the site pages configured, ensuring that the pages are available in good time for the migration in each environment
To collaborate with the SEO team during the migration to ensure that links are not broken inside the new sites, that the necessary 301 redirects are in place and that the new sites follow good SEO practice for each release
To collaborate with others to define the approach to the navigational structure, including menus, hierarchies and taxonomies, and then to lead the configuration in the sites needed. Delegating work where appropriate and performing it directly where appropriate
To develop and implement standard solutions for complex page types, images, documents and anything else requiring a common approach.
To liaise with senior Drupal developers who are either directly developing the components, themes, templates, modules and scripts or are allocating the work to their teams, and to liaise with the testing on the test cases and the testing phases of the project
To configure pages to ‘integrate’ SaaS or “white label” applications within the site’s structure and liaise with the suppliers as required to do so
To integrate bespoke applications with the site and liaise with developers who will develop those applications as required to do so
To document all of the above solutions
To brief and guide the content migration staff accordingly so that content is migrated as required for the new site
To liaise with other programme teams to ensure that there are no gaps or overlaps in the activities required to deliver the new site.

Do you know anyone who may be interested? If so please can you pass on my details or ask them to confidential call me on 07723359591 or email me jill.lund@yahoo.co.uk

Once again, apologies for this speculative approach.

Thanks again for your help.

Kind Regards

Jill

Jill Lund

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