Senior Drupal Developer

We’re seeking a Senior Drupal Developer to support a major website modernisation program, delivering secure, accessible and high-performing digital services for a large public sector environment.

This role will suit an experienced Drupal/PHP developer who can work confidently in a multi-disciplinary Agile team, collaborating with designers, content specialists, testers and technical leads to deliver modern digital components and integrations.

Role details

Start date: Tuesday, 16 June 2026

Contract duration: ASAP to 30 June 2027

Location: ACT preferred

Work arrangements: Hybrid, with Canberra-based attendance preferred

Security clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deploy custom Drupal 9/10+ modules, themes and integrations.
• Build clean, reusable and 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.
• Apply coding standards, Git workflows and peer-review practices.
• Support automated testing, debugging and performance optimisation.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation for custom modules, integrations and system behaviour.
• 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 deliver user-centred outcomes.
• Keep up to date with the Drupal and PHP ecosystem, security patches and best practice.
• Recommend improvements to development workflows, tooling and modern development approaches, including AI-assisted tooling.

Essential skills and experience

• Strong experience developing and supporting Drupal 9/10+ applications.
• High proficiency in PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Twig.
• Experience with Drupal theming, configuration management and module development.
• A good understanding of relational databases, such as 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.
• Experience contributing effectively within Agile teams.

Desirable skills

• API and authentication integrations, including REST, OAuth and SAML.
• Automated testing frameworks such as PHPUnit, Jest or Cypress.
• Web security best practice in PHP/Drupal environments.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Agile delivery tools such as DevOps.
• Contributions to open-source or Drupal community projects.