Why Partner with Mobilunity for Drupal Staff Augmentation
Mobilunity supports companies that expand Drupal teams while retaining full control over their platforms and delivery.
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Years Experience building and supporting distributed development teams
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Teams Extended using structured team augmentation approaches
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Specialists Integrated into client-led engineering and product teams
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Key Drupal Roles That Strengthen Your Team
Different stages of a Drupal platform require different levels of expertise. Below are common Drupal roles that are often added to client-led teams.
Drupal Developer
Drupal Developers help move day-to-day work forward. They implement features, adjust configuration, fix bugs, and support module or theme updates, allowing your internal team to keep momentum without being overloaded by routine tasks.
Senior Drupal Developer
Senior Drupal Developers handle more complex technical topics, such as performance tuning, advanced module customization, and tricky integrations. They help reduce technical debt and support stable development over the long term.
Drupal Tech Lead
A Drupal Tech Lead coordinates technical choices across the CMS stack. This role keeps architecture consistent, reviews important changes, and supports communication between Drupal developers, frontend teams, and other stakeholders.
Drupal Architect
Drupal Architects focus on the overall structure of your Drupal ecosystem. They define patterns for scalability, content modeling, and integrations, helping avoid structural bottlenecks as your site and requirements grow.
Why Companies Choose Mobilunity for Drupal Staff Augmentation
We focus on long-term Drupal collaboration where clients keep full control over their platforms.
Experience with Drupal in Real Use
Our teams support organizations that use Drupal in production, not only in test environments. This helps developers understand real performance limits, content volumes, integration issues, and what is needed to keep sites stable while features and content change over time.
Attention to Team Compatibility
Developers are selected for both technical skills and how they fit your team. Matching tools, communication style, and working tempo helps reduce misunderstandings, makes cooperation smoother, and supports long-term collaboration instead of short-term, one-off engagements.
Your Team Sets the Direction
You stay responsible for priorities, release timing, and platform decisions. Drupal developers work inside your structure, follow your guidelines, and report to your internal leads, so control over the platform never leaves your organization.
Flexible Capacity, No Long-Term Hiring Pressure
You can increase or decrease Drupal capacity as your roadmap and workload change. This flexibility lets you respond to busy periods or quieter phases without immediately creating permanent roles or reorganizing your internal team.
Clear Communication Lines
You work directly with developers in day-to-day communication, without extra layers in the middle. This keeps discussions simple, shortens feedback loops, and helps decisions move faster while keeping everyone aligned on current tasks and priorities.
Support Around the Collaboration, Not the Code
Administrative and operational tasks are handled outside your engineering team. Your leaders can focus on the Drupal platform, while coordination, contracts, and similar topics are managed separately to keep collaboration organized and easy to maintain.
Drupal Team Augmentation Models
Choose how Drupal specialists should work with your team based on workload, timelines, and internal capacity.
Dedicated Full-Time Collaboration
This setup is suitable when Drupal plays a central role in your digital presence and you need ongoing development or maintenance.
- Full-time Drupal developers working only with your team
- Stable involvement in daily tasks and roadmap items
- Growing familiarity with your content model and integrations
- Direct communication with your internal leads
- Predictable monthly capacity planning
Flexible Part-Time Collaboration
This format works well when you have focused needs or uneven Drupal workload across the year.
- Developers engaged for limited hours or defined scopes
- Capacity adjusted to content, migration, or upgrade cycles
- Efficient use of Drupal expertise without full-time allocation
- Easier to scale involvement up or down over time
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How Drupal Developers Join Your Team
This process is aimed at making integration smooth while keeping all key decisions on your side.
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Discussing Your Needs
We start by understanding your Drupal setup, current bottlenecks, and expected workload. Together we outline what kind of Drupal experience you need, which areas should be supported, and how new developers will collaborate with your existing team.
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Selecting Suitable Developers
Based on the agreed requirements, Drupal specialists with the right background are shortlisted. You review their profiles, talk directly with candidates, and choose the people who best match your technical expectations and communication style.
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Setting Up Access and Workflows
After selection, developers receive access to your environments, repositories, and communication channels. They follow your processes, coding standards, and release routines to start contributing without disrupting ongoing work.
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Ongoing Collaboration in Daily Work
Developers become part of your regular routines, such as planning, code reviews, and deployments. Capacity can be adjusted over time as your Drupal priorities change, whether you are focused on new features, upgrades, or long-term support.
Skills of Drupal Developers You Can Hire
Drupal specialists added to your team bring a mix of backend, CMS, and front-end skills that support real-world site development and maintenance.
Proficiency with PHP and Related Frameworks
Developers are comfortable with PHP as a language and familiar with common patterns used in modern PHP ecosystems. This helps them handle custom logic, integrations, and performance-sensitive parts of Drupal-based systems.
Expertise in Installing and Building Drupal Modules
Engineers know how to select, configure, and extend Drupal modules. They can work with community modules or build custom ones to support business rules, integrations, and tailored content features.
Experience with Drupal Theme Development
Developers understand Drupal’s theming layer and know how to implement or adjust themes for brand alignment, layout updates, and responsive behavior while keeping maintainability in mind.
Understanding of Databases
Specialists are familiar with relational databases and how Drupal interacts with them. They can support schema changes, query efficiency, and data consistency for content-heavy sites.
Focus on Security Maintenance
Developers are used to applying security updates, monitoring advisories, and following best practices to keep Drupal instances aligned with security requirements and internal policies.
Debugging and Updating Experience
They handle bug fixing, version upgrades, and ongoing improvements without large disruptions. This helps keep Drupal sites stable while introducing new features or configuration changes.
Integration and API Work
Many Drupal developers also work with REST or other APIs, enabling your site to connect to external services, internal platforms, or other digital channels as needed.
Build Your Drupal Capacity with Confidence
Add experienced Drupal developers to your team to support content updates, feature development, integrations, and long-term maintenance. Specialists work under your direction, use your toolset, and help keep the platform moving forward in a predictable way.
- Drupal work focused on production environments
- Developers matched to your tools and workflows
- Smooth onboarding into your existing routines
- Flexible collaboration without long-term lock-in
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Drupal Staff Augmentation Capabilities
These are typical areas where Drupal developers can support your internal team once they are integrated.
Drupal Site Development and Enhancement
Developers help build and extend Drupal-based sites, working on features, content structures, and configuration changes within your existing architecture and standards.
Module Selection and Customization
Specialists assist in choosing and configuring modules, as well as creating custom modules when standard options are not enough to meet business requirements.
Theme Implementation and Adjustments
Developers implement or adapt themes to support design updates, responsive behavior, and layout changes while staying aligned with your brand and UX direction.
Integration and API Support
Engineers help connect Drupal with internal systems, external services, or other channels via APIs, so content and data can flow reliably between platforms.
Performance and Stability Improvements
Developers work on tuning queries, caching, and configuration to help sites run more smoothly as content and traffic grow.
Security and Update Handling
Specialists help apply security patches, keep modules and core up to date, and follow security guidelines defined inside your organization.
Drupal QA and Testing Support
Through Drupal testing talent augmentation, teams can add specialists focused on regression checks, upgrade validation, and basic functional testing around key Drupal features.
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Team Expansion Models Compared
When you need more Drupal capacity, you usually choose between in-house hiring, working with external vendors, or using a staff augmentation Drupal model. Each option offers a different balance of speed, control, and flexibility.
| Feature | Staff Augmentation | In-House Hiring | External Vendor |
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| Cost predictability |  |  | |
| Speed of scaling | | | |
| Direct control over engineers | | | |
| Flexible team size | |  | |
| Direct communication | | | |
| Access to niche Drupal skills | | | |
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Popular Stacks for Staff Augmentation Requested by Our Clients
Clients ask for support across many technologies, depending on how their products are built and which skills are missing inside their teams. The list below covers common areas where companies add specialists through team augmentation.
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Mobilunity provides an excellent and efficient tech talent service. All my staffing requests, even for niche technologies, were fulfilled in a 2 to 4-week time period, with top-notch candidates. Besides that, I like the caring environment that the Mobilunity team provides for the developers and ensures that everybody is able to work without distractions.
I strongly recommend Mobilunity as a tech talent partner!
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