Description
The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), is one of the preeminent public universities in the country, and is one of the leading employers in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are currently seeking a Drupal 6 developer / designer to join our IST-Data Services team for an exciting new project that will implement a campus-wide technology catalog. This catalog will require single sign-on (CAS) authentication, but once authenticated will be fully community-sourced by the UCB community. It will house descriptive and definitional information about technologies used at UCB, ratings and reviews of these technologies, and other yet-to-be-identified resources that would serve the UCB community. The application will need to serve the entire campus community regardless of technical knowledge and will need to be as simple and intuitive as possible while offering strong, under-the-hood architectural organization to optimize searching, browsing, and views for highly disparate audiences. This project is sponsored by the Deputy CIO. The developer would work under the supervision of a project manager in the Data Services department and will follow an agile project management approach. The project will have an associated advisory group from which ongoing decisions will be made throughout design, prototyping, and releases.
Employment Type
- 1099 contractor only
- Telecommute: OK; but regular in-person check-ins required.
- Part-time position for 5 months starting May 1
** 70% time: May, June 2011
** 25% time: July, August, September 2011 - Please propose hourly rate.
Required Qualifications
- Strong architectural design knowledge to most effectively use/reuse data when creating content types and building panels and views
- Strong experience with search optimization and application of taxonomies
- Strong understanding of Drupal 6 and available modules
- Strong Drupal module building skills
- Uses "Everything in code" Drupal development method
- Strong user interface design skills
- High standards for code quality and attention to detail
- Experience both implementing and invoking hooks
- Experience with version control systems
- Experience with JIRA, or other issue tracking systems
- Active Drupal Community member, writing modules and submitting patches
- Effective communicator of ideas and isn’t afraid of the dry erase board
- Fast learner and agile
Desired Experience
- Extensive knowledge and experience applying Themes and Views
- Experience with Web Forms, Node Reference, Taxonomy, Panels, Rating, and Ranking modules
- Experience with single-sign-on authentication modules, i.e. CAS and Shibboleth
- Experience with and interest in community-sourced projects
- Experience integrating Apache Solr with Drupal
- Has developed applications with agile/iterative-based development processes
- Built applications for Higher-Education
- Strong use of CSS and HTML
- Experience with Drupal 7