Why THIS job?
Your work will be seen by visitors all over the world as you work with the Smithsonian Institution and it’s Departments, Museums, and Research Centers update their websites and create new online, interactive tools.
What Quotient seeks in a Candidate:
Strong ability to think through business use cases, a passion for the end user experience, and an intellectual curiosity to learn new tools and technology.
Why work with Quotient?
An Employee-centric Company with marvelously skilled developers on staff to provide mentoring and ongoing PHP and Drupal training. A calm and encouraging team spirit that encourages team "think tank" where our team leadership facilitates discussion but does not dominate the conversation in pursuit of our objectives
About this role:
The role is responsible for designing, coding and modifying websites. From small exhibition websites to large websites dedicated to entire Museums, you will be working directly with stakeholders to come up with attractive, functional, and engaging user experiences. Your technical knowledge of Drupal, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS will help support hundreds of content managers and designers create the next generation of Smithsonian websites.
Job Duties:
- Convert designs into custom Drupal (responsive) themes/sub-themes
- Configure new and existing Drupal sites using core and contributed modules to create robust business solutions
- Evaluate third-party Drupal modules for suitability, and install/configure these modules, develop custom modules and/or enhance third-party modules
- Integrate internal or third party products into Drupal sites
- Integrate commenting, rating, and other social networking features into Drupal sites
- Diagnose and correct problems in existing websites
- Migrate content from existing websites into Drupal
- Perform site testing and issue resolution
- Perform core and module updates
- Provide training and guidance to new Drupal users
- Support and troubleshoot with existing users in-person and remote
- Manage and process support tickets to ensure timely resolution of issues
- Perform similar duties for WordPress sites
Prior Experience and Proven Skills should include:
- Minimum three years experience with web development skills including HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery
- Three years of Drupal 7 site building experience
- Three years of Drupal theme development experience
- Experience migrating sites from Drupal 6 to 7
- Three years working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
- Experience building, maintaining, and migrating WordPress websites is a plus