Cognizant

Drupal Lead Developer

Cognizant
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14 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize secure, scalable, and resilient WordPress and Drupal applications.
  • Architect reusable WordPress themes, plugins, and Drupal modules while maintaining code quality and performance.
  • Integrate enterprise APIs and third-party services into content management solutions.
  • Review, refactor, and harden legacy WordPress and Drupal implementations.
  • Implement security practices and support compliance with internal controls and industry regulations.
  • Optimize front-end rendering, backend processing, queries, caching strategies, and content delivery configurations.
  • Translate functional requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
  • Define test strategies, support automation coverage, and validate feature acceptance and non-functional requirements.
  • Mentor engineering peers on CMS practices, coding standards, and debugging strategies.
  • Partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams on deployment pipelines, automation, and reliable releases.
  • Analyze production incidents, perform root-cause investigations, and implement preventive fixes.
  • Collaborate with finance and accounting experts on compliant financial data flows when applicable.
  • Document technical decisions, solution architectures, and operational runbooks.

Requirements

  • 6 to 12 years of experience.
  • Extensive WordPress experience building custom themes, extending core capabilities, and managing complex enterprise plugin ecosystems.
  • Deep Drupal expertise configuring content types, views, custom modules, and user permissions for large-scale multisite environments.
  • Strong proficiency in PHP, relational databases, and modern front-end technologies used with WordPress and Drupal.
  • Understanding of finance and accounting processes and their related content and integration flows.
  • Experience with performance tuning, caching strategies, and monitoring tools.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for hybrid, cross-functional teams across time zones.
  • Experience with version control, code review, and structured technical documentation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment.
  • Location: Pan India.

Tech Stack

DrupalJavaScriptMySQLPHPWordPress

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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