Drupal Technical Lead

Position opening

Salsa Digital is looking for a Drupal Technical Lead to come join Team Salsa on an initial 3 month full time contractor basis with the potential for extension.

A Technical Lead provides technical authority on design and implementation of assigned projects as well as being a champion of approaches (processes and tooling) that deliver ‘fit for purpose’ results for clients within acceptable budget constraints in line with Salsa’s standardised environment. As the Technical Lead you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to pre-sale & discovery responsibilities
• Solution design
• Project execution (incl. discovery)
• Solution development
• Technical delivery coordination
• Reviewing of code delivered by the team
• Retrospectives
• Salsa Digital marketing contributions
• Drupal community contributions
• Maintaining up-to-date Drupal knowledge and skills
• Drupal Training Sessions (if required)

Salsa Digital appreciates and embraces diversity however the successful incumbent must be based in Australia and ideally an Australian Citizen. This position works from home during AEST business hours.

About Salsa

Salsa Digital is a Melbourne-based agency with a 22 year legacy in open source with a current team of 65 Salsarians.

In more recent years, Salsa Digital has become a key contributor to helping governments become more open, more consolidated and more connected. Most recently, Salsa has invested in a considered suite of products which address gaps observed in the market such as standard based design systems, content migration automation, secure hosting and other methods to address technology and business fragmentation. These offerings, while emanating from Salsa’s work in government, are applicable also to the enterprise context both in Australian geographies and beyond.

Salsa Digital is entrusted by the Australian Government as the exclusive delivery partner for the next generation GovCMS platform. Salsa has also been entrusted by the Victorian Government as the implementation partner for the Single Digital Presence platform.

Salsa Digital is a values-driven agency with a strong open source and transparent ethos and is recognised as an open source digital platform leader in government at state and federal level. Salsa has earned this reputation through delivery of high profile programs of work and also via the production of thought leading content. We encourage you to visit salsa.digital to find out more about the work we do and the people that make up our awesome team.

Responsibilities

Discovery responsibilities

• Lead / participate in discovery workshops
• High level solution direction / technical blueprint
• Development estimates using Salsa’s standard estimation tools and models
• Technical risk assessment
• Technical issues discovery
• Technical assumptions
• Pre-requisite standards compliance
• Client facing technical communication, written and/or verbal :
• Include project managers on communications.

Project execution

• Sprint planning and technical delivery approach
• Review functional matrix of applications and platforms
• Review & comment on design packs
• Collaborate on Storyboards
• Document solution direction and project technical specifications
• Tool & process selection and implementation e.g. Github, processes etc
• Tailoring relevant templated checklists for the project e.g. environment setup, Go Live etc
• Grooming Stories & finalise Acceptance Criteria
• Onboarding development team
• Lead and contribute to development estimates (planning poker)
• Challenge estimates as part of estimate grooming process
• Be accountable for groomed/agreed estimates
• Conduct code reviews
• Client facing technical communication (written and/or verbal)
• Escalation point for developers
• Release notes/plan
• Routine timeline/resource estimates on request
• Lead the development team and and hold self and team accountable to Salsa values
• Software development of code utilising best practice and adhering to Salsa development processes
• Communicates with project/SCRUM management when project deadlines are at risk of not being met
• Internal documentation of authored program code

Retrospectives

• Help embed high priority findings into Salsa technical core

Solution design

• Accountable for solution direction documentation to guide developers
• Accountable for integration solutions where applicable
• Creation of standard technical design/solution documentation that leverage Salsa best practice
• Consideration of custom frameworks and reusable modules
• Represents recommended solutions, and options, to clients

Salsa Digital marketing contributions

• Prepare for and present at conferences, events and meetups as needed
• Represent the Salsa Digital brand and values in all external facing interactions
• Network and create constructive relationships with the public and clients
• Identify sales opportunities (professionally) and pass on sales leads to Business Development Managers

Drupal community contributions

• Create an open source community contribution culture with all Salsa developers
• Evangelise and contribute to a DevRel culture in establishing a relationship with external developers
• Maintain an active Drupal profile
• Maintain Salsa’s Drupal profile with support from Salsa developers
• Represent Salsa at Drupal meetups and other forums via presentations and attendance
• Make and coordinate contributions on an ongoing basis with attribution to yourself and Salsa
• Encourage team contributions from all other developers
• Actively monitor and contribute to relevant community ‘places’ (eg GovCMS) including slack, etc.
• Coordinate community Q&A responses with support from the Salsa technical team
• Report and share community insights and metrics with the Salsa team each fortnight at the Salsa team meeting

Maintain up to date Drupal knowledge and skills

• Keep informed on the latest relevant dev tech news and developments

Drupal training sessions (if required)

• Take responsibility for the preparation, running and follow-up actions required for each training session
• Modify presentation and student manual material as needed
• Represent the Salsa Digital brand and values in all client/student facing interactions
• Network and create constructive relationships with clients/students
• Identify sales opportunities (professionally) and pass on sales leads to Business Development Lead

Requirements

Must Haves

• Based in Australia, ideally an Australian Citizen
• Exceptional communication skills both verbal and written
• 8-10+ Years demonstrated experience in the delivery of open source enterprise digital solutions, using Drupal as a framework
• 2-5+ Years of demonstrated experience in the technical leadership of enterprise digital solutions using agile delivery methodologies

Nice to Haves

• Established footprint within the open source community
• Industry Infrastructure, DevOps, Automation experience. Any of: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, containerised architectures well regarded.

Benefits

In joining Salsa Digital you can expect the following benefits:

• Attractive salary package
• Work from home
• Flexible working hours
• Instantly feel like part of the crew when you receive your Salsa Digital merchandise
• Opportunity for career development
• Be supported by a group of diverse, fun, passionate and genuinely good people
• A flat and transparent organisational culture where you get answers, FAST!
• Refer-a-friend Employee Benefits Scheme
• Work with a team serious about its values, serious about open source
• A company culture that is rigorous, transparent, accountable, continuously improving, commercial, innovative and values diversity - all of salsa’s core values

Recruitment companies, please note whilst we appreciate the work you do we are not looking to engage you to support us in finding the right person for this position so please do not contact us.