Digital Lead Developer, Charity/NfP, c£65k
An experienced Digital Technical Lead Developer with strong Drupal experience and open to a hands-on approach will have a fantastic opportunity available for this charity/NfP membership organisation based in London. The Digital Technical Lead can be either predominantly home office based, or in their central London offices, or a combination (applications will be looked at very flexibly for UK “right to work” candidates who cannot easily reach London). The organisation is a global leader for their field and this is a new role as Digital Technical Lead in their Digital Change Programme to help them transform and be fit for future, this includes projects to replace some existing old technology with new solutions, and projects to refresh and develop better user journeys across our digital sites and services for various internal and external audiences.
Reporting to the Head of Digital and working closely with an experienced and delightful Programme Manager, the Digital Technical Lead will work on a variety of digital solutions with budgets ranging from 10’ks to 100’ks managing contract resources and 3rd party agency developers and having budgetary responsibility. Technical environment is predominantly Drupal, Wordpress and Salesforce. Key responsibilities will include:
* Ensuring all software solutions and development implemented meets technical/security/infrastructure needs of organisation i.e. QA
* Acts as the lead technical developer for all new software initiatives
* Prioritises and triages all work of developer team
* Decides when code is ready for deployment
* Manage the merge/deploy process for organisation applications
* Directing work of developer team (staff, contractors and agency staff) to build software solutions / new website functionality to meet the needs of the organisation, including planning, designing, developing and liaising with 3rd parties, where required
* Ensure all development work (including word done by agency technical teams) follows industry standard coding practises, internal processes and is ready for deployment
* Lead on technical documentation for all systems/applications used by organisation, and provide quality assurance of developer documentation work
* Supports the robust and open comms between developer team and digital project manager team, working closely with digital project managers and digital programme manager throughout project life cycle from initiation/discovery through to build and retrospectives
* Provide technical leadership with digital infrastructure work in collaboration with IT services team and external agencies, directing work that has high dependency between developer team, IT services team and agencies/contractors responsible for infrastructure support and ensure this work is managed appropriately
* Leading on technical strategy for digital estate, in terms of technical direction and decisions, recommending mitigations and solutions for technical risks and issues, and escalating any new risks/issues as required
* Maintaining security of applications, and associated systems/platforms, both open source and SaaS
* Leads on technical input and direction for new digital solutions being implemented by organisation
* Coaches and provides technical training support for team, as appropriate
You can demonstrate:
* Excellent Drupal 9 knowledge (core + contrib modules, custom module and theme creation, Twig templating)
* Strong modern, object-oriented PHP experience using frameworks eg. Laravel, Symfony and dependency management via Composer, step debugging using XDebug
* Excellent modern Javascript knowledge including ES6/ES2015 modules, TypeScript etc.
* Thorough, demonstrable understanding of front end technologies ie. HTML5, CSS and modern workflow, tools to manage project complexity eg. Grunt, Gulp, Webpack etc.
* SQL database management experience
* NodeJS coding and project setup experience (eg. using NPM, Yarn)
* Strong knowledge of Git (Bitbucket Cloud experience useful) – evidence of ability to manage the merge, release process for multiple contributors as part of a QA and deployment pipeline
* Good experience of setting up and using Docker for local development – both raw Docker/Docker Compose and tools such as DDEV, Lando, Docksal
* Experience with cloud hosting platforms – specifically Pantheon but also eg. AWS EC2, Azure Cloud
* Familiarity with DevOps tools and workflows eg. Ansible, Puppet, Capistrano
* Linux admin skills sufficient to provide assistance to more junior staff in debugging software stack issues and also to infrastructure engineers during outages, attacks etc.
* Able to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders
Sound interesting? Would you like to know more? We’d love to hear from you! For more information e-mail us or call for an informal chat during the day or to request an out of hours conversation. Ref: MD00462a. The position is available initially on a 2 year FTC with salary dependent upon experience of up to £65k and including excellent benefits including a great pension, annual leave, medical and flexible working practices. Full details and job description available.
Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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