diff --git a/config_adapters.py b/config_adapters.py
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+"""
+Configuration adapters for mapping native specifications from DRM to DRMAA API
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+from typing import (List, ClassVar, Union, Optional, TYPE_CHECKING)
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict, fields, InitVar
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+import re
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from drmaa import JobTemplate
+
+# DRMAA specific fields, anything else should be put into native spec
+DRMAA_FIELDS = [
+    "email", "deadlineTime", "errorPath", "hardRunDurationLimit",
+    "hardWallclockTimeLimit", "inputPath", "outputPath", "jobCategory",
+    "jobName", "outputPath", "workingDirectory", "transferFiles",
+    "remoteCommand", "args", "jobName", "jobCategory", "blockEmail"
+]
+
+TIMESTR_VALIDATE = re.compile("^(\\d+:)?[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]$")
+
+
+@dataclass
+class DRMAACompatible(ABC):
+    '''
+    Abstract dataclass for mapping DRM specific configuration to a
+    DRMAA compatible specification
+
+    Properties:
+        _mapped_fields: List of DRM specific keys to re-map onto
+            the DRMAA specification if used. Preferably users will
+            use the DRMAA variant of these specifications rather than
+            the corresponding native specification
+    '''
+
+    _mapped_fields: ClassVar[List[str]]
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        '''
+        Display formatted configuration for executor
+        '''
+        attrs = asdict(self)
+        drmaa_fields = "\n".join([
+            f"{field}:\t{attrs.get(field)}" for field in DRMAA_FIELDS
+            if attrs.get(field) is not None
+        ])
+
+        drm_fields = "\n".join([
+            f"{field}:\t{attrs.get(field)}" for field in self._native_fields()
+            if attrs.get(field) is not None
+        ])
+
+        return ("DRMAA Config:\n" + drmaa_fields + "\nNative Specification\n" +
+                drm_fields)
+
+    def get_drmaa_config(self, jt: JobTemplate) -> JobTemplate:
+        '''
+        Apply settings onto DRMAA JobTemplate
+        '''
+
+        for field in DRMAA_FIELDS:
+            value = getattr(self, field, None)
+            if value is not None:
+                setattr(jt, field, value)
+
+        jt.nativeSpecification = self.drm2drmaa()
+        return jt
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def drm2drmaa(self) -> str:
+        '''
+        Build native specification from DRM-specific fields
+        '''
+
+    def _native_fields(self):
+        return [
+            f for f in asdict(self).keys()
+            if (f not in self._mapped_fields) and (f not in DRMAA_FIELDS)
+        ]
+
+    def set_fields(self, **drmaa_kwargs):
+        for field, value in drmaa_kwargs.items():
+            if field not in DRMAA_FIELDS:
+                raise AttributeError(
+                    "Malformed adapter class! Cannot map field"
+                    f" {field} to a DRMAA-compliant field")
+
+            setattr(self, field, value)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class DRMAAConfig(DRMAACompatible):
+    def drm2drmaa(self):
+        return
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SlurmConfig(DRMAACompatible):
+    '''
+    Transform SLURM resource specification into DRMAA-compliant inputs
+
+    References:
+        See https://github.com/natefoo/slurm-drmaa for native specification
+        details
+    '''
+
+    _mapped_fields: ClassVar[List[str]] = {
+        "error", "output", "job_name", "time"
+    }
+
+    job_name: InitVar[str]
+    time: InitVar[str]
+    error: InitVar[str] = None
+    output: InitVar[str] = None
+
+    account: Optional[str] = None
+    acctg_freq: Optional[str] = None
+    comment: Optional[str] = None
+    constraint: Optional[List] = None
+    cpus_per_task: Optional[int] = None
+    contiguous: Optional[bool] = None
+    dependency: Optional[List] = None
+    exclusive: Optional[bool] = None
+    gres: Optional[Union[List[str], str]] = None
+    no_kill: Optional[bool] = None
+    licenses: Optional[List[str]] = None
+    clusters: Optional[Union[List[str], str]] = None
+    mail_type: Optional[str] = None
+    mem: Optional[int] = None
+    mincpus: Optional[int] = None
+    nodes: Optional[int] = None
+    ntasks: Optional[int] = None
+    no_requeue: Optional[bool] = None
+    ntasks_per_node: Optional[int] = None
+    partition: Optional[int] = None
+    qos: Optional[str] = None
+    requeue: Optional[bool] = None
+    reservation: Optional[str] = None
+    share: Optional[bool] = None
+    tmp: Optional[str] = None
+    nodelist: Optional[Union[List[str], str]] = None
+    exclude: Optional[Union[List[str], str]] = None
+
+    def __post_init__(self, job_name, time, error, output):
+        '''
+        Transform Union[List[str]] --> comma-delimited str
+        '''
+
+        _validate_timestr(time, "time")
+        super().set_fields(jobName=job_name,
+                           hardWallclockTimeLimit=time,
+                           errorPath=error,
+                           outputPath=output)
+
+        self.job_name = job_name
+        self.time = time
+        self.error = error
+        self.output = output
+
+        for field in fields(self):
+            value = getattr(self, field.name)
+            if field.type == Union[List[str], str] and isinstance(value, list):
+                setattr(self, field.name, ",".join(value))
+
+    def drm2drmaa(self) -> str:
+        return self._transform_attrs()
+
+    def _transform_attrs(self) -> str:
+        '''
+        Remap named attributes to "-" form, excludes renaming
+        DRMAA-compliant fields (set in __post_init__()) then join
+        attributes into a nativeSpecification string
+        '''
+
+        out = []
+        for field in self._native_fields():
+
+            value = getattr(self, field)
+            if value is None:
+                continue
+
+            field_fmtd = field.replace("_", "-")
+            if isinstance(value, bool):
+                out.append(f"--{field_fmtd}")
+            else:
+                out.append(f"--{field_fmtd}={value}")
+        return " ".join(out)
+
+
+def _timestr_to_sec(timestr: str) -> int:
+    '''
+    Transform a time-string (D-HH:MM:SS) --> seconds
+    '''
+
+    days = 0
+    if "-" in timestr:
+        day_str, timestr = timestr.split('-')
+        days = int(day_str)
+
+    seconds = (24 * days) * (60**2)
+    for exp, unit in enumerate(reversed(timestr.split(":"))):
+        seconds += int(unit) * (60**exp)
+
+    return seconds
+
+
+def _validate_timestr(timestr: str, field_name: str) -> str:
+    '''
+    Validate timestring to make sure it meets
+    expected format.
+    '''
+
+    if not isinstance(timestr, str):
+        raise TypeError(f"Expected {field_name} to be of type string "
+                        f"but received {type(timestr)}!")
+
+    result = TIMESTR_VALIDATE.match(timestr)
+    if not result:
+        raise ValueError(f"Expected {field_name} to be of format "
+                         "X...XX:XX:XX or XX:XX! "
+                         f"but received {timestr}")
+
+    return timestr
diff --git a/drmaa_patches.py b/drmaa_patches.py
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+'''
+Patches on DRMAA-python module
+'''
+
+from drmaa import JobTemplate, Session
+from drmaa.helpers import Attribute, IntConverter
+
+
+#TODO: Make sure this is actually correct?
+# Works for SLURM
+CORRECT_TO_STRING = [
+        "hardWallclockTimeLimit"
+]
+
+
+class PatchedIntConverter():
+    '''
+    Helper class to correctly encode Integer values
+    as little-endian bytes for Python 3
+
+    Info:
+        The standard IntConverter class attempts to convert
+        integer values to bytes using `bytes(value)` which
+        results in a zero'd byte-array of length `value`.
+    '''
+    @staticmethod
+    def to_drmaa(value: int) -> bytes:
+        return value.to_bytes(8, byteorder="little")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_drmaa(value: bytes) -> int:
+        return int.from_bytes(value, byteorder="little")
+
+
+class PatchedJobTemplate(JobTemplate):
+    def __init__(self):
+        '''
+        Dynamically patch attributes using IntConverter
+        '''
+        super(PatchedJobTemplate, self).__init__()
+        for attr, value in vars(JobTemplate).items():
+            if isinstance(value, Attribute):
+                if attr in CORRECT_TO_STRING:
+                    setattr(value, "converter", None)
+                elif value.converter is IntConverter:
+                    setattr(value, "converter", PatchedIntConverter)
+
+
+class PatchedSession(Session):
+    '''
+    Override createJobTemplate method to return
+    Patched version
+    '''
+    @staticmethod
+    def createJobTemplate(self) -> PatchedJobTemplate:
+        return PatchedJobTemplate()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+++ b/requirements.txt
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+apache-airflow==2.1.4
+apache-airflow-providers-ftp==2.0.1
+apache-airflow-providers-http==2.0.1
+apache-airflow-providers-imap==2.0.1
+apache-airflow-providers-sqlite==2.0.1
+apache-airflow-providers-ssh==2.2.0
+coverage==5.3.1
+flake8==3.8.4
+pytest==6.2.5
+pytest-cov==2.11.0
+pytest-forked==1.3.0
+pytest-mock==3.6.1
+pytest-xdist==2.2.0
+Sphinx==3.4.3
+toml==0.10.2
diff --git a/tests/test_config_adapters.py b/tests/test_config_adapters.py
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+"""
+Tests for config_adapters.py to ensure that mapping
+from DRM-specific configuration to DRMAA spec works
+correctly
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from drmaa_executor_plugin.drmaa_patches import (PatchedJobTemplate as
+                                                 JobTemplate)
+from drmaa_executor_plugin.config_adapters import SlurmConfig
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def job_template():
+    jt = JobTemplate()
+    yield jt
+    jt.delete()
+
+
+def test_slurm_config_transforms_to_drmaa(job_template):
+    '''
+    Check whether SLURM adapter class correctly
+    transforms SLURM specs to DRMAA attributes
+    '''
+
+    error = "TEST_VALUE"
+    output = "TEST_VALUE"
+    time = "10:00:00"
+    job_name = "FAKE_JOB"
+
+    expected_drmaa_attrs = {
+        "errorPath": error,
+        "outputPath": output,
+        "hardWallclockTimeLimit": "10:00:00",
+        "jobName": job_name
+    }
+
+    slurm_config = SlurmConfig(error=error,
+                               output=output,
+                               time=time,
+                               job_name=job_name)
+
+    jt = slurm_config.get_drmaa_config(job_template)
+
+    # Test attributes matches what is expected
+    for k, v in expected_drmaa_attrs.items():
+        assert getattr(jt, k) == v
+
+
+def test_slurm_config_native_spec_transforms_correctly(job_template):
+    '''
+    Test whether scheduler-specific configuration is transformed
+    into nativeSpecification correctly
+    '''
+
+    job_name = "TEST"
+    time = "01:00"
+    account = "TEST"
+    cpus_per_task = 5
+    slurm_config = SlurmConfig(job_name=job_name,
+                               time=time,
+                               account=account,
+                               cpus_per_task=cpus_per_task)
+
+    jt = slurm_config.get_drmaa_config(job_template)
+    for spec in ['account=TEST', 'cpus-per-task=5']:
+        assert spec in jt.nativeSpecification
+
+
+def test_invalid_timestr_fails():
+    job_name = "TEST"
+    time = "FAILURE"
+    account = "TEST"
+    cpus_per_task = 10
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        SlurmConfig(job_name=job_name,
+                    time=time,
+                    account=account,
+                    cpus_per_task=cpus_per_task)
+
+
+def test_timestr_not_string_fails():
+    job_name = "TEST"
+    time = 10
+    account = "TEST"
+    cpus_per_task = 10
+
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+        SlurmConfig(job_name=job_name,
+                    time=time,
+                    account=account,
+                    cpus_per_task=cpus_per_task)