Consultant - Frontend Developer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Partner with Engineering Manager - IAC, Content Engineering Lead and Service Delivery Lead - IAC to drive a technical direction and standards for web and front-end applications across the enterprise

• Plan and manage technical throughput of work in the web space aligning with engineering leadership to ensure focus on the right outcomes
• Articulate technical direction and upskill anyone leveraging core web platforms including internal and external engineers across all digital applications
• Drive to standard technical implementation leveraging standard languages, frameworks, and pipelines
• Drive modernisation plan to bring legacy applications in line with new standards where appropriate
• Partner with core engineering group to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon in addition to cost of running our web capabilities globally
• Ensure secure reliable and efficient operation ensuring the latest standards are adopted
• Position the web toolkit and associated capabilities amongst other internal and external capability
• Provide technical leadership, consultation for functional team engineers and outsourced partners providing trouble shooting and support when using the platform
• Deploy squads as required to support functional engineering in leveraging the core web services
• Look for opportunities to modernise applications running on the core platform helping company to maximise investments and drive more reliable outcomes
• Drive web core technical direction ensuring we continue to invest in a strong core foundation
• Coach engineers in the web core team helping their technical development
• Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control
• Lead the squad attending daily stand ups and building against defined backlog items
• Report up process, activity and key achievements across the team
• Help break user stories into technical deliverables

External Skills And Expertise

Must have Skills:

• ReactJS
• TypeScript
• Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud

Good to have:

• Node JS
• Rest API
• CICD

Knowledge on ReactJs & TypeScript

Experience leveraging headless API driven CMS and common development toolchain including Github suite (SCM, Actions)

Javascript experience including experience with node.JS, next.js advantageous

Experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)

Experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud

Experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.)

Experience working within a “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.

Proven track record of “hands-on” software engineering (e.g. Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, etc.)

Experience with SaaS technologies advantageous including; Salesforce, Veeva, Kentico Kontent

Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.

Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.

Experience working with authentication and authorisation protocols/patterns.

Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.

Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.

Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that result in a definitive direction.

Experience and knowledge of infrastructure, CICD and deployment an advantage