Project Overview: The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) provides timely access to global environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote, protect, and enhance the Nation’s economy, security, environment, and quality of life. Through the Web, we convey and amplify our core mission stories letting the public, stakeholders, and partners know how we are working for them to provide information and resources to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts. It is our obligation to use our websites and social media channels to present timely information and data to the public. As part of policies for the Federal Government, which includes the IDEA Act, NESDIS is modernizing our web presence to improve the Customer Experience (CX) to offer more services and information to a variety of audiences (both technical and non-technical).

As technology continues to rapidly change, it is critical that NESDIS keep up with digital trends and federal web strategies, including mandates to accelerate efforts to make government information available to Americans anytime, anywhere, and on any device as well as improving upon CX and introducing plain language models.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Selects and evaluates technology, plans the continuous integration environment, issue tracking system, version control system, hosting environment, deployment processes, and external API integrations.

2. Architects the overall system implementation by using diagrams, prototyping and proof of concepts.

3. Articulates the differences between competing architecture designs and the rational for selecting one over another.

4. Works with the Product Owner to develop product roadmaps and measurable technical success criteria.

5. Clearly communicates and works with stakeholders at every level.

6. Serve as the manager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward ensuring the simplest and most elegant system possible to accomplish the desired need.

7. Planning work with Big Data, technical architecture, SaSS, PaaS, Git, Docker, DevOps, Drupal Multisite, traditional/headless/decoupled CMS, and CI/CD. Knowledge of Open Science and Open Data

8. Provide leadership and management expertise for leading technical staff

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Understands how to deploy systems on infrastructure as a service platform

• Comfortable with liberally sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within agile methodologies

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS Cloud

• Experience with Acquia hosting platform

• Experience in Javascript, Bootstrap, jQuery, Backbone.js, Ember.js, D3, PHP, Angular, React.js, HTML, CSS as well as integration of consuming RESTful APIs.

• Triple Certified Drupal Expert preferred

Education/Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience working with Drupal

• 3+ year’s work experience in web and application development

• 2+ years working with Agile methodologies

• 2+ working experience with SDLC

• 2+ years’ experience working with integrations and APIs

Benefits: Competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, 401(k) Plan, Training Programs, Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled