About the role
In this role, you will collaborate with platform engineers, business stakeholders, and the Digital Experience Team to deliver modern, user-focused digital products and services. Leveraging your Drupal expertise and contemporary web development skills, you’ll help shape our web architecture, influence the future Drupal roadmap, and deliver innovative, scalable solutions that support our long-term digital vision and create meaningful value for the organisation and community.
Work type: Fixed term contract (24 months)
Classification: Band 7, $109,342 pa plus super
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and deliver enterprise-grade Drupal solutions that underpin the City of Greater Geelong’s web presence, exercising a high degree of technical expertise and judgement across custom development, theming, and reusable components.
- Contribute to and influence the endorsed Drupal roadmap, ensuring platform development is aligned with Council priorities, community expectations, and strategic digital objectives.
- Provide specialist input into solution design, including headless and decoupled Drupal architectures, to support scalable, secure, and future-ready digital service delivery.
- Develop and manage integrations with Council systems (e.g. CRM, ERP, and service platforms), ensuring reliability, security, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Apply and uphold standards for accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), performance, security, and privacy, ensuring compliance with government legislation and best practice.
- Drive the adoption of contemporary Drupal development practices, including governance, coding standards, CI/CD, automated testing, and quality assurance, contributing to continuous improvement of delivery capability.
- Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and provide oversight of external vendors, ensuring delivered outcomes meet Council standards, user needs, and agreed delivery outcomes.
- Analyse, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues, while contributing to platform optimisation, knowledge sharing, and the ongoing sustainability of Council’s digital services.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will have relevant qualification in Computer Science or related field and or significant professional experience in a comparable organisation.
Essential Experience:
- Relevant qualification in Computer Science or related field and or significant professional experience in a comparable organisation.
- Demonstrated expertise in Drupal development (Drupal 10/11), including custom module development, theming, configuration management, and site building.
- Proven experience in integrating Drupal with enterprise systems (e.g. CRM, ERP, service platforms) using RESTful APIs.
- Experience applying contemporary development practices such as Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and version control (e.g. Git/MS DevOps).
- Strong understanding of web standards including security, performance optimisation, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), and privacy requirements.
- Experience in designing and implementing headless or decoupled Drupal architectures and integrating with modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js).
Desirable:
- Experience in designing and implementing headless or decoupled Drupal architectures and integrating with modern front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Next.js).
- Knowledge of content strategy, UX/UI principles, and digital service design practices.
Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check and Working with Children’s Check as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City).
If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Child Safety Responsibilities
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.
Diversity and Inclusion
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.
We are the City
From parks to offices, childcare centres to works depots, leisure facilities to the Wool Museum and waterfront, our team plays a vital role in shaping our vibrant and growing community. Our community counts on us to get the essentials right while looking for ways to go beyond. By listening, collaborating, and focusing on sustainability, we strive to do the basics brilliantly and create a lasting impact. If you’re ready to be part of something bigger, join us in shaping the future of Geelong.
We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process.
Applications and Enquiries
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Enquiries: Tony Grgurevic| Digital Experience Lead | TGrgurevic@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
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