Senior Developer / Web Systems Manager 912

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:
• .Net
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• SASS
• jQuery
• Gulp
• GIT
• MYSQL
• 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.