OCTO Web Developer Master

Washington, United States | Posted on 06/06/2026 Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain Drupal-based websites supporting DC.gov and District agency platforms. Build and customize Drupal modules, themes, content types, taxonomies, and views per agency requirements. Perform Drupal core and contributed module updates, security patches, and version migrations (e.g., Drupal 7 to Drupal 10/11). Integrate Drupal sites with enterprise systems, APIs, and third‑party services. Ensure deliverables comply with Section 508, WCAG 2.1 AA, and District web standards. Apply web security best practices consistent with OCTO and federal cybersecurity guidelines. Collaborate with OCTO project managers, UX designers, content strategists, and agency stakeholders. Produce technical documentation, code comments, and operational runbooks. Provide Tier 3 production support and participate in deployment activities, including occasional after‑hours work. Required Technical Skills HTML & Markup: Strong command of semantic HTML5: sectioning elements, headings hierarchy, lists, tables, and forms. Solid grasp of web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA): ARIA roles and attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, alt text, and accessible form labeling. Familiarity with structured data and SEO markup: meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Schema.org/JSON‑LD. Understanding how Drupal renders markup through Twig and ability to produce clean, valid output via template overrides. CSS & Styling: Deep working knowledge of modern CSS layout: Flexbox and CSS Grid, with sound judgment about when to use each. Proficiency with responsive design: media queries, fluid typography, container queries, and mobile‑first methodology. Command of cascade, specificity, and inheritance, with ability to debug specificity conflicts. Comfort with CSS custom properties, modern color/spacing tokens, and maintainable theming patterns. Nice to Have Strong SCSS/SASS skills: nesting, mixins, functions, partials, disciplined file architecture. Consistent CSS methodology such as BEM and understanding how it maps onto Drupal’s class conventions. Familiarity with CSS transitions, transforms, animations with attention to performance and reduced‑motion preferences. Strong DOM manipulation and event handling, event delegation, performance‑conscious listeners. Fluency with Fetch API and asynchronous data handling, JSON parsing, error handling. Understanding how to attach and scope JS correctly through the Libraries API rather than inline scripts. Awareness of frontend performance: defer/async loading, minimizing reflows, debouncing/throttling, avoid render‑blocking scripts. Experience with a build/tooling pipeline (Webpack, Vite, Gulp) and linting/formatting (ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint). Exposure to modern framework (React/Vue) for decoupled or partially decoupled Drupal frontends. Hands‑on experience with Domain Access module, Domain Config module, cache contexts/invalidation, domain‑aware menu/block/pathauto strategies. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (BLT, GitHub Actions, Acquia Pipelines). Hands‑on Acquia Cloud experience: environments, Cloud Hooks, code/database/files workflow, Acquia CLI. Comfort with multi‑database configuration and routing. Experience building and consuming REST APIs: JSON:API, REST module, custom REST resources. Experience with common third‑party integrations: analytics, marketing automation. Drupal Site Administration & Configuration Management Fluency with Drupal 9/10/11 admin UI: content types, fields, vocabularies, view modes, form/display modes, blocks, menus, URL aliases, redirects. Solid command of Configuration Management workflows: config export/import, config_split, config_ignore. Strong grasp of user access control: roles, permissions, content moderation workflows, custom workflow states/transitions. Demonstrated expertise with Views: complex queries, contextual filters, relationships, exposed filters/sorts, output rewriting, REST exports. Experience administering Media Library, image styles, responsive image styles, crop/focal‑point strategies. Clear mental model of what belongs in config vs. content vs. state vs. settings.php. Theming & Frontend Strong Twig skills: template suggestions, preprocessing, theme hook implementations. Comfort with Libraries API: defining JS/CSS, managing dependencies, conditional loading. Experience with modern base themes (Olivero/Stable9) and component‑based theming. Familiarity with Single Directory Components (SDC) for Drupal 10.3+. Solid responsive design fundamentals, disciplined CSS methodology (BEM), SCSS/SASS proficiency. Security Disciplined input sanitization and output escaping (XSS filters, Twig autoescaping). Use of placeholders to prevent SQL injection and applying access checks on entity queries. Knowledge of file‑upload security, CSRF tokens, trusted host patterns. Experience conducting permission audits and reviewing for privilege escalation. DevOps, Deployment & Tooling Understanding of Git workflows: feature branches, rebase vs. merge, conflict resolution, hotfix patterns. Strong Drush proficiency: cache rebuilds, config import/export, user management. Competence with Composer for project scaffolding, patching, autoloader generation. Experience with local development environment, ideally Lando (DDEV/Docksal welcome). Additional Documentation & Standards Ability to write technical documentation usable by non‑developer content editors. Methodical diagnostic approach for debugging complex issues. Code‑review hygiene: readable commits, descriptive PRs, openness to feedback. Adherence to Drupal community coding standards (PHPCS with Drupal and DrupalPractice rulesets). Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. #J-18808-Ljbffr Sugatu Consulting