Senior Developer / Systems Manager
Salary: £40,000 – 45,000
Location: Huddersfield
Industry: Marketing
Work Hours: 37.5 hours
Minimum Requirements:
* Education Requirements: None other than commercial exposure
* Experience Requirements: Minimum of 3-5 years in a web role
* Qualifications: Any web/systems qualifications considered
* Skills: Web project development
* Responsibilities: Web management
Benefits:
* Healthcare: We offer AXA PPP medical health cover upon completion of probation.
* Staff discount scheme: Perkbox offers a range of free and discounted services.
* Workplace pension: We offer the Government workplace pension scheme to all our employees.
* Social events: Dress-down days, quizzes, nights out and charity fundraisers are all part of our social calendar.
* Staff Perks: Our staff members enjoy a fully stocked 'treat' cupboard including cake, biscuits, healthy snacks, and pop.
* Birthday: A day off on your birthday.
About the Role:
Are you a talented developer looking for a challenge and complete ownership of development systems within an SME business? If you are passionate about working on projects from concept to delivery and have a minimum of three years’ experience, then we have a great opportunity for you to grow with the company.
You will be responsible for maintaining and updating all web-related projects and server environments, as well as being involved with other technical projects, including migrating the current Umbraco content management system/site to version 8 and creating additional conversion rate-focused landing pages. A good understanding of UX, SEO, and technical requirements is essential.
You will support the wider digital marketing strategy by providing support on the creation of A/B testing and the implementation of test outcomes.
You will play a key part of our Digital Marketing team, reporting to the Senior Digital Manager, and will be expected to take ownership of all development projects.
Main Duties Include:
* Maintaining and updating the software on our server.
* Migration of website from Umbraco version 7 to version 8.
* Producing a weekly maintenance log of issues and fixes and potential impacts on the business.
* Keeping up to date on the latest Umbraco developments and ensuring that our website environment is always up to date with the latest patches and security fixes.
* Creation and updates to new and existing web templates – working on both front and back end.
* Investigating areas of technical improvements to all web assets and providing recommendations to the Senior Digital Marketing and SEO Manager.
* Working with the wider marketing teams to implement API connections to tools to aid reporting.
* Investigating & troubleshooting development-related website issues.
* Supporting the Senior Digital Marketing and SEO Manager with projects to improve the site through implementation of new features and functionality.
Key Qualifications and Experience:
* Umbraco experience (doesn't need to be in-depth).
* Experience in:
o .Net
o HTML
o CSS
o JavaScript
o SASS
o jQuery
o Gulp
o GIT
o MYSQL
o API development including ASP.net Core
* Previous experience in website migration from Umbraco version 7 to version 8.
* A strong understanding of the full development lifecycle.
* Prioritisation of personal workload to meet business needs.
* Eager to learn and willing to continually improve.
* Strong understanding and experience of responsive design and mobile-first.
* Self-starter and confident to question and interpret briefs.
* Ability to take direction and constructive feedback from senior members of the team.
* Highly organised and able to deliver within accurate timescales.
* Experience of working in a KPI-driven environment with clear evidence of achieving and exceeding goals and targets.
About Us:
A thriving organisation specialising in the full range of legal services. We are committed to developing our team to deliver a first-class service to our customers.
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