Lead Web Developer, Drupal Platform

Job Profile:

Applications Developer 4

Job Family:

IT Applications

Time Type:

Full time

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Description:

The Lead Web Developer, Drupal Platform provides technical and people leadership for ASU's enterprise Drupal web platform, Webspark, and related web services. This role leads a team of web developers responsible for building, maintaining, releasing, and improving Drupal-based websites, themes, modules, integrations, accessibility practices, and managed hosting workflows across ASU's web ecosystem.

This is a hands‑on web leadership role for someone with strong Drupal, PHP, CMS, accessibility, and enterprise web platform experience. The position combines technical direction, code review, release coordination, team mentorship, platform improvement, and support for ASU's broader community of site owners, editors, developers, and service partners.

The Lead Web Developer, Drupal Platform plays a critical role in sustaining the reliability, security, accessibility, and scalability of ASU's web ecosystem while supporting continued modernization across TechEd services. This role also helps guide the responsible use of AI‑assisted development practices to improve documentation, automate routine work, support testing and code review, accelerate troubleshooting, and create better digital experiences for students, faculty, staff, and the broader ASU community.

As with all members of the Enterprise Technology team, this role carries core responsibilities, including fostering a sense of belonging and cultivating a culture that is relational, visionary, and empowering. With a strong emphasis on authenticity and compassion, this position is dedicated to embodying and advancing our culture.

Pay Rate:

$94,300.00 - $103,370.00; DOE

Essential Duties:

• Lead Drupal and Webspark platform development: Provide technical leadership for ASU's Drupal-based web platform, including Webspark, custom modules, themes, configuration, integrations, and related platform components.
• Coordinate web platform releases: Oversee and perform regular releases for ASU's Drupal multisite codebases. Ensure releases are tested, documented, communicated, and coordinated with appropriate developers, site owners, service owners, and technical partners.
• Support enterprise web platform stability: Serve as a technical owner and escalation point for complex issues involving Drupal, Webspark, Acquia, managed hosting, integrations, performance, accessibility, code quality, and production support.
• Lead and mentor web developers: Supervise, coach, and support a team of web developers across varying levels of experience. Help establish development goals, support onboarding, guide priorities, review technical work, and promote consistent web development practices.
• Guide Drupal and web platform strategy: Contribute to the roadmap for ASU's Drupal and web platform ecosystem. Identify opportunities to improve architecture, reduce technical debt, modernize development practices, strengthen accessibility, and improve long‑term platform sustainability.
• Develop and maintain custom web solutions: Write, review, test, and deploy custom Drupal modules, themes, scripts, integrations, and automation to support enterprise web needs. Support large-scale web efforts such as site launches, site decommissions, Drupal upgrades, WordPress-to-Drupal migrations, and platform standardization.
• Strengthen web accessibility practices: Apply accessibility best practices in development, theming, component work, QA, documentation, and release processes. Partner with accessibility stakeholders to support WCAG alignment across ASU web platforms.
• Support managed web hosting and platform operations: Work with hosting, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform partners to support Acquia or comparable managed hosting environments, environment management, caching, performance, deployment workflows, and platform reliability.
• Improve web development workflows: Support continuous improvement of Git workflows, QA practices, deployment pipelines, configuration management, automated testing, release planning, rollback planning, and operational documentation.
• Advance responsible AI-assisted development: Evaluate and apply AI tools where appropriate to improve dev