Drupal Developer Lead

Job Title: Drupal Developer Lead
Clearance Required: Public Trust
Work Location: Remote.

Alpha Omega seeks a Drupal Developer Lead to guide and mentor a team of developers supporting the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This role requires hands-on Drupal development expertise combined with leadership skills to foster collaboration, peer review, and shared solution design. The Developer Lead will play a key role in ensuring technical quality, driving innovation, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the development team, ensuring best practices, coding standards, and continuous improvement.
• Perform peer reviews and encourage collaboration on technical solutions, design walkthroughs, and shared problem-solving.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with designers, QA, infrastructure, and content leads to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Hands-on Drupal development including custom module and theme creation, integration, and enhancements within Drupal 9/10.
• Lead modernization and enhancement projects to improve site usability, performance, accessibility (508 compliance), and user experience.
• Provide technical oversight for AWS-based architecture, including chatbot integrations (Node.js, AWS Lambda, etc.).
• Support Operations and Maintenance (O&M) web content updates on SAMHSA.gov and related sites, ensuring compliance with federal web standards (508, plain language, SEO, USWDS).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, acting as the escalation point for the development team.

Required Qualifications:

Experience/Skills:

• 6+ years of Drupal development experience (front-end and back-end).
• Proven leadership experience mentoring developers and conducting code reviews.
• Strong understanding of Drupal 9/10 architecture, custom modules/themes, and API integrations.
• Experience collaborating across teams and presenting technical solutions to stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to obtain security clearance - Public Trust.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with United States Web Design System (USWDS).
• Experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway).
• Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools (nice to have).
• Previous experience with federal web modernization projects.

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $110,000 - $145,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

Application Deadline: December 30, 2025

Joining the Alpha Omega team entitles you to participate in all retirement benefits, plans of deferred compensation, health and insurance benefits, and other such benefits as set forth in the company's policy and benefits manuals. See below, to name a few:

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company's holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
• FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
• Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit

We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Culture and Values:

Guided by our core values-Harmony, Engagement, Accountability, Resourcefulness, and Tenacity (HEART)- we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning and are committed to delivering high-impact solutions. We recognize and reward hard work.

Through our H.E.A.R.T. Awards Program, colleagues and managers can recognize each other for actions that exemplify these values. Recognized employees receive a detailed nomination highlighting their contributions, which is shared with their manager. Each quarter, select nominees have the opportunity to receive a monetary bonus as an extra thank-you for their impact.

Our Company:

Alpha Omega is an award-winning Federal IT solutions provider dedicated to delivering mission-enabling technology and strategic solutions across the National Security, Federal Financial, Healthcare, and Space & Science domains. Since our founding in 2016, we have grown to over 800 employees nationwide with $230m in revenue. With the January 2025 acquisitions of SeKON and Macro Solutions, we have expanded our capabilities to further support our customers in digital modernization, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

We are committed to supporting our agency partners as they transform their operations, delivering on our purpose to ensure the safety, security, and well-being of future generations:

• National Security - Supporting agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State.
• Federal Financial - We bring deep expertise in enterprise financial systems, supporting agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
• Healthcare - Our Health IT capabilities, enhance health outcomes for the warfighter via the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and support public health initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
• Space & Science - We leverage technology to advance agricultural sustainability, secure our nation's food supply, and prepare for natural disasters, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Through strategic partnerships, intellectual property, and relentless drive for innovation, Alpha Omega is shaping the future of government technology. We are proud to be a Virginia Best Places to Work 8 times, an Inc. 5000 honoree 7 times, and a Washington Post Top Workplaces 4 times. Join us in driving transformation that secures the nation's future.

Alpha Omega Integration, LLC (Alpha Omega) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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