Technical Architect

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it! 

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Our recruitment process is designed to empower you in making the most informed decisions. Acquia is committed to providing an inclusive, transparent, efficient, and educational interview experience that cultivates exploration into career opportunities at Acquia

You will discover the opportunity to grow your career here and learn from a global team that empowers you to exceed boundaries and achieve the extraordinary

Key responsibilities

• Using Acquia Professional Services best practices, craft technical solutions that balance business needs, feasibility, quality, and time to deliver.
• Define and document the technical architecture of assigned projects.
• Collaborate with product and other internal Acquia teams to identify opportunities and raise and resolve integration issues.
• Validate technical output against standards and architecture direction.
• Manage technical relationships with internal stakeholders, the customer, and partners.
• Provide the technical standards for quality, performance and security to the project team.
• Assure deployments are tested and deployed successfully.
• As needed, and depending on skill set, assume any number of the responsibilities of the Developer or Front-end Developer role.
• Ad Hoc duties as assigned.
• Ability to time-shift schedule to accommodate customer timezone and on-call considerations as needed.

Key requirements

• 5-9 years of experience along with the minimum 2+ years of exp as a Technical Architect exp
• Prior deep experience building, leading and architecting Drupal applications with 5+ years developing Drupal applications
• Experience in the development tools such as Git, Composer, Drush, Lando / DDev / Cloud IDEs, etc.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality software on time.
• Experience with and interest in complex implementations.
• Ability to develop, review, and test custom Drupal modules and themes.
• Desire to learn and adapt to new applications and frameworks, and eager to work on exciting and innovative technologies.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple projects at the same time.
• Ability to clearly communicate project escalations proactively.
• Skilled at collaborating with team members and partners in a matrixed environment.
• Flexible and able to deal with frequently shifting priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with an ability to collaborate asynchronously in a multi-time zone environment.
• Experience and interest in Agile methodologies including Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience and interest in automated testing and continuous integration are a plus.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more! 

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Interested residents of Colorado may contact NA-recruiting@acquia.com as it relates to regulation C.R.S. § 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked here.