Front End Developer

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 5.30pm (start and finish time adaptable to flexitime policy)

Role Description:

As a Front End Developer for a Bournemouth based digital agency with more than 15 years of success and stability, your main responsibility is to write the code to create exceptional interactive experiences for their clients. This will involve working closely with their Experience Team to transform their designs and wireframes into high quality, rich, interactive website experiences.

You will seamlessly integrate your templates into their .NET content management platforms (also known as Experience Platforms), which are Sitecore, Episerver, Ektron, Telerik Sitefinity and Kentico. Your work will also integrate with their chosen Marketing Automation platforms (also known as Engagement Marketing or Email Marketing Platforms); which are Marketo, Silverpop and Dotmailer. You will also work closely with their Back End Developers to implement their bespoke controls and plug-ins in order to deliver complex and interactive data driven websites.

You will need to learn the content management platforms they partner with and demonstrate the ability to think with the CMS to define, document and prototype client solutions. You will have a good eye for design and have a good level of understanding regarding web site production. You will have demonstrable experience & portfolio and maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends for front end development such as responsive design.

Skills/Knowledge Desirable:

- Experienced HTML, XHTML, CSS coding skills including the use of frameworks such as Bootstrap
- JavaScript skills and a desire to enhance these to a high level for interactive tools and features
- Experienced with integrating code and also configuration of content management systems - ideally .NET (see above)
- Experience in coding for device diversity, PC/Mac; Tablet; Smartphone and cross browser support
- Enthusiasm for emerging standards and techniques - HTML 5, CSS 3, responsive design
- Good experience with integrating controls and plug-ins and widgets to produce dynamic page
- Experience in the creation of HTML emails, including responsive emails, is desirable
- Experience with CSS pre-processors and front-end build systems such as SCSS and Gulp is desirable
- Experience in delivering accessible (at least to W3C WAI WCAG 2.0 AA) public websites is desirable
- Some creative software and graphics manipulation capability is desirable
- Experience with version control systems such as Team Foundation Server (TFS) is desirable
- Experience with XML, XSLT and technical SEO techniques is desirable

Personal Responsibilities:

- Estimating work, flagging up risks and 'unknowns', completion of personal timesheets
- Website development and delivery
- Maintenance and support for existing websites and hosting services

Personal Situation: The ideal candidate will be based in or near Bournemouth or have ties with the area.

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