Drupal Developer

The Drupal Developer will be at the forefront of Veolia s transition to an in-house development model, focusing on customer-facing portals. This role will be crucial in enhancing, maintaining, and innovating across multiple Drupal-based platforms, including multi-language implementations. Working closely with business stakeholders and the existing contracted development team, the Developer will take ownership of technical solutions, security upgrades, bug fixes, feature development, and overall platform improvements. The Drupal Developer's deep understanding of the company's products and close collaboration with the wider team will drive efficiency, innovation, and stronger alignment between customer needs and technical delivery. By improving business knowledge, fostering a culture of ownership, and enhancing team collaboration, they will play a key role in ensuring greater continuity, dedication, and expertise in the development processes.

Demonstrate an extremely proactive and autonomous approach, utilising Drupal frameworks and infrastructure specialised in Drupal 10 & 11 to support the product roadmap and ensure efficient product continuity and problem-solving. Define and implement best practice technical solutions, proposing customer-first approaches while collaborating closely with colleagues to determine optimal outcomes. Act on problems without excessive guidance, showcasing strong problem-solving skills and initiative. Conduct code reviews for colleagues across the Websites team portfolio, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices. Provide support to other developers in areas involving complex solutions and code, despite not having direct management responsibilities. Regularly engage with the wider DB&T team, product engineers, developers, security teams, legal teams, product owners, product leads, and key business stakeholders across the UK and Northern Europe. Participate in customer workshops to identify key product end-user frustrations across the Websites team portfolio, subsequently debugging code, writing new code, and applying patches as necessary. Conduct data reviews to inform meaningful development that positively impacts the Veolia customer base. Deliver technical demonstrations and collaborates with the wider DB&T team on ongoing work programs. Maintain regular communication with the immediate product team regarding in-flight work and future scope. Liaise with security teams for penetration testing, vulnerability reports, and general security updates. Collaborate with legal teams on GDPR, data, and compliance matters across the portfolio. Innovate to reduce paper usage and drive digital interactions, resulting in paper savings, CO2 emission reductions, and decreased costs associated with in-person contact where digital service is feasible. Promote business sustainability by reducing dependencies on external and third-party workers. Streamline systems required to achieve product best practices, leading to savings in server and team costs.

What We Are Looking For

• Significant hands on Drupal backend and front-end development experience
• Extensive development experience with Drupal versions 10 and above
• Experience and a good understanding of working with Docker
• Proficient in custom code creation / updates adhering to Drupal standards
• Hands on experience using Solr Search & web services in Drupal
• Sound knowledge of both AWS & Acquia cloud hosting
• Awareness of working with Acquia pipelines and GIT Webhooks
• Creation and application of security and custom patches
• Drupal maintenance and platform upgrades
• Good understanding of custom code and ability to review custom code