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Description:
*THIS IS A FULLY BENEFITED, FULL-TIME HARVARD UNIVERSITY POSITION THAT HAS BEEN FUNDED THROUGH 6/30/25. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL, CONTINGENT ON FUNDING, UNIVERSITY PRIORITIES AND SATISFACTORY JOB PERFORMANCE.*
Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to delivering service and technological solutions in support of teaching, learning, research and administration. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in their ability to collaborate and innovate across disciplines – and depth in specific areas of expertise. HUIT offers opportunities for IT professionals to learn and work in a unique technology landscape and service-focused environment. If you are a technically proficient, nimble, user-focused, and accountable IT professional who also connects with the importance of collaborating well in a team environment, we are looking for you!
HUIT is seeking a Web Platform Developer to join our experienced central web services team that provides Web Platform offerings and services at scale to the Harvard community. This new role is part of an initiative to build, launch, and evolve an enterprise-class Web Platform for University-wide needs. While centered on web content management, this platform will intersect with an ecosystem of adjacent systems, including but not limited to design systems, content and multimedia delivery networks, identity and access management, cloud, and security.
Reporting to the Senior Technical Lead, the candidate will work with team members and third-party implementation partners and will contribute to the product vision and the technical underpinnings of all facets of the platform. The role requires exceptional programming skills, experience with automated tests, experience with cloud hosting providers (Acquia, Pantheon) that specialize in Drupal, platform development and migrations, and integrating technologies via APIs and web services. The Web Platform Developer will be a key contributor to the platform build and ongoing development, including planning, requirements gathering, and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
Typical Core Duties:
- Participate fully in software development life cycle
- Write tests for automated testing suites
- Research, design, and implement technical solutions to deliver business requirements
- Identify opportunities to improve and simplify applications portfolio and implement related enhancements
- Contribute to creation and maturing of software development best practices and new technologies
- Draw on relationship and technical skills to act as technical liaison to internal and external clients and to mentor junior staff
- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of five years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
- Minimum of 3+ years of recent expert-level Drupal development experience
- Experience with PHP, vanilla JavaScript or JS libraries (jQuery, React), HTML5, CSS3
- Experience with Cypress and other modern testing tools
- Experience building and using CI/CD workflows integrated with version control systems
- Experience with user experience methods and an understanding of WCAG 2.1, WAI-ARIA, and the techniques used to make websites, electronic documents, and media content accessible.
- Experience working with Acquia Site Factory and Pantheon WebOps platform
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives, streamline processes and prioritize projects and tasks
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to assess and apply new technologies in innovative ways to solve business and technical problems
Responsibilities:
- Participate fully in software development life cycle
- Write tests for automated testing suites
- Research, design, and implement technical solutions to deliver business requirements
- Identify opportunities to improve and simplify applications portfolio and implement related enhancements
- Contribute to creation and maturing of software development best practices and new technologies
- Draw on relationship and technical skills to act as technical liaison to internal and external clients and to mentor junior staff
- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduc
