Web Designer & Developer - Luxury British Brand

Location
Redditch, Worcestershire
Salary
£30,000 to £40,000 per annum +life insurance+birthday off+25 days
Posted
20 Apr 2016
Closes
18 May 2016
Ref
8415
Sectors
IT, Web Design
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Web Designer & Developer - Luxury British Brand
Redditch, Worcestershire
£30,000 - £40,000 + Group life insurance scheme + birthday off + 25 days holiday per year


**Excellent career-development opportunity for a talented digital designer / developer with Social Media and SEO skills to join a much-loved British Brand with a heritage spanning 46 years**

The Web Designer & Developer Role:

As Web Designer and Developer at you will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining all our web based entities and social media presences and contributing enhancements within our web based CRM & ERP platform. You will be responsible for furthering the effectiveness of our social media presence and SEO of our web entities, continually maximizing the effective reach to our audience. You will be working directly with our IT, Design, PR and Marketing teams and Directors within the role.

Web Designer & Developer Duties and responsibilities:

> Continually develop all our web entities in all capacities, including design of the whole site visually, logically and in code.
> Continually improve the effectiveness of our SEO & Web presence helping reach as many as our target audience as possible.
> Continually improve the effectiveness our Social Media presence, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & YouTube maximizing our reach.
> Working with our IT team on development projects.
> Updating content on all web entities / presences, on occasion this may extend out of office hours.
> Design, produce & distribute high quality marketing Mail-outs.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Essential:

> Have a minimum of 3 years commercial web development experience including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, Adobe Photoshop, Google Analytics & SEO.

Proficiency in:

> HTML, CSS, PHP, .Net, JavaScript, JSON, MySQL & SQL
> Experience with MVC, JSON, JQuery and REST APIs
> SEO, including full and effective utilization of social networking and multimedia sites.
> Adobe Creative Suite
> Designing secure systems, e.g. familiar with building solutions hardened for SQL injection and XSS vulnerability etc
> Implementing & maintaining CMSs.
> Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code
> Knowledge of building responsive layouts
> Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility

Desirable:

> Experience in mobile device development, this can include Cordova and PhoneGap.
> Server management experience including Apache, IIS and SQL/MySQL.
> SharePoint knowledge

Personal Requirements:

> Visually creative and innovative
> A passion and eagerness within your field
> A competitive energy and eye for spotting opportunities to apply new ideas and technology to, this is a company where you will thrive!
> Enjoy working with people, strong communication skills, hands-on
> Ability to work under pressure and within business critical timelines
> Be an organised, methodical and strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail

You may have worked in the following capacities:
Digital Designer, Creative Designer, Web Developer, Graduate Developer, Junior Developer, Mid-weight Developer, Web Manager, Website Manager, eCommerce Developer, Full Stack Developer.

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The Web Designer & Developer role is being managed by agency innovator RecruitmentRevolution.com. By applying for this role you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.