HUIT is seeking a Senior Technical Lead 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. This is a hands-on technical role with management responsibilities.

The candidate will be the technical lead from Harvard on the project, working with third-party implementation partners and is expected to have both a deep understanding of the product vision as well as the technical underpinnings of all facets of the platform. The role requires exceptional programming skills, experience with cloud hosting providers (Acquia, Pantheon) that specialize in Drupal and Wordpress, platform development and migrations, and integrating technologies via APIs and web services. The Senior Technical Lead will be responsible for partnering with the vendor to define and manage technical aspects of the platform build and ongoing development, including planning, requirements gathering, and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. The Senior Technical Lead will also be responsible for growing Harvard's internal technical capacity to operate and maintain the platform.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Additional Qualification and Skills:

The following Additional Qualifications are strongly preferred. If you meet some, but not all, you are still encouraged to apply; we value employees with a willingness to learn.

• Minimum of 5+ years of recent expert-level Drupal development experience
• Minimum of 2+ years as a manager or team lead
• Experience with WordPress theme and plugin development, PHP, vanilla JavaScript or JS libraries (jQuery, React), HTML5, CSS3
• 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.

Certificates and Licenses:

• Completion of Harvard IT Academy specified foundational courses (or external equivalent) preferred
• Bachelor's degree (preferably in Computer Science or a technical field) or equivalent related experience or other relevant certifications, such as Acquia Certified Site Builder, preferred.