Lead Drupal Developer

About this role

The Department of Finance is seeking an experienced EL1 Lead Drupal Developer with strong security and platform engineering expertise to support whole-of-government digital products. The role provides technical leadership, strategic direction and oversight of Drupal platform development, while ensuring secure, scalable and high-quality service delivery across Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service offerings.

The role contributes to maintaining platform stability, meeting security and compliance requirements, supporting strategic initiatives and strengthening development capability within the team.

The successful candidate will: • Have strong technical, communication, interpersonal and analytical skills. • Lead and provide direction in development activities. • Support and mentor junior staff. • Work effectively in an agile environment. • Actively contribute back to the Drupal community.

In addition to the broader capabilities outlined in the Finance People Capability Framework, Finance is seeking candidates who possess the following job specific skills and attributes aligned to our core capabilities:

Lead • Provide visible technical leadership for Drupal platform engineering, setting direction for secure, scalable and maintainable solutions. • Exercise sound judgement on architecture, security and operational trade-offs, escalating risks clearly and early. • Coach and mentor junior and graduate developers, building confidence and consistency across development practices. • Model integrity, stewardship and accountability in decisions that affect whole-of-government services.

Collaborate • Build constructive relationships with product, security, infrastructure, service operations and supplier stakeholders. • Translate complex technical issues into clear advice for non-technical decision makers. • Create inclusive technical discussions where different views are tested and incorporated into delivery decisions. • Represent Finance professionally in cross-team forums, working groups and service discussions.

Achieve • Deliver reliable platform outcomes across development, release, support and uplift activities. • Prioritise work in line with operational risk, platform stability, security obligations and strategic value. • Drive code quality, automated testing, release discipline and continuous delivery practices. • Maintain focus on measurable service outcomes, including reliability, accessibility, compliance and maintainability.

Think • Identify platform risks and opportunities before they affect delivery or service quality. • Apply systems thinking to how Drupal, AWS, Salesforce, CI/CD, security controls and service operations interact. • Research Drupal AI capabilities, modules and integration options to support responsible innovation. • Use evidence, logs, engineering analysis and stakeholder insight to inform technical recommendations.

Learn • Promote a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and technical curiosity. • Keep current with Drupal, DevOps, cloud, accessibility, security and responsible AI practices. • Share lessons from incidents, releases and uplift activities to improve team practice. • Support others to develop capability through mentoring, review, documentation and practical guidance.

Know • Advanced Drupal platform development and architecture. • Secure coding with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. • DevOps, CI/CD, GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, Docker, Kubernetes and Ansible. • PaaS/SaaS operations, AWS-hosted services and enterprise platform integration. • Accessibility, WCAG, security assurance, risk and compliance in regulated environments. • Digital product roadmap contribution and technical stakeholder engagement.