Drupal Developer

• Federal Government
• ASAP - June 2027
• Canberra, ACT

We are seeking a Drupal Developer to support a Federal Government Department, the Drupal Developer builds and supports Drupal‑based solutions that enable the delivery of the new departmental website. The role works within a multi‑disciplinary Agile team and collaborates with designers, content specialists, testers and technical leads to deliver secure, accessible and high‑performing digital components.

Key duties and responsibilities

Drupal & PHP development

• Design, develop, test and deploy custom Drupal 9/10+ modules, themes and integrations.
• Build clean, reusable, maintainable Drupal/PHP code aligned with industry best practice.
• Configure and extend Drupal core and contributed modules to meet functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Develop secure API integrations for third‑party systems and data exchange.

Quality, performance & documentation

• Apply coding standards, version control workflows (Git) and peer‑review practices.
• Support automated testing, debugging and performance optimisation.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation for custom modules, integrations and system behaviour.

Collaboration & delivery

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Translate business, UX and content requirements into technical solutions.
• Work closely with product, design and content specialists to ensure solutions meet user and business needs.

Continuous improvement

• Keep up to date with the Drupal and PHP ecosystem, security patches and best practice.
• Recommend and implement improvements to development workflows and tooling.
• Support the responsible and effective use of modern development approaches, including AI‑assisted tooling.

Essential criteria

• Strong experience developing and supporting Drupal 9/10+ applications.
• High proficiency in PHP and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Twig).
• Experience with Drupal theming, configuration management and module development.
• Good understanding of relational databases (e.g. MySQL) and query optimisation.
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot and optimise Drupal performance.
• Experience using Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills, and experience contributing within Agile teams.

Desirable criteria

• Experience integrating APIs and authentication services (REST, OAuth, SAML).
• Exposure to automated testing frameworks (PHPUnit, Jest, Cypress etc.).
• Understanding of web security best practice in PHP/Drupal environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery tools (DevOps)
• Contribution to open‑source or Drupal community projects.

Please further discussion, please contact:

Emily Priest

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