Salary-$130k, hybrid schedule
Job Description
Location : Minneapolis, MN
The Senior Web Developer position will be responsible for the development of websites within a Java-based Content Management System platform (A e Experience Manager), including site structure, custom components, custom workflows, and unit testing. This role provides technical consulting to management, business users, and technical associates and works closely with other developers to complete requests and implement features.
Essential Functions
Strategy & Planning
• Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates a functional specification, and determine the most efficient/appropriate technologies.
• Research and improve current coding standards.
• Research and implement new development techniques.
• Submit and review technical and process improvement recommendations as a member of the technical leadership team.
• Work with business and IT teams to plan new features, gather requirements, and suggest solutions.
• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support).
• Ability to work with new technologies while showing drive, versatility, adaptability, and creative thinking.
• Help foster a culture of innovation and out-of-the-box thinking.
Acquisition & Deployment
• Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications, and/or customer requirements to design and build Internet solutions utilizing multiple technologies.
• Estimate hours for project tasks.
• Schedule and lead brainstorming activities surrounding development functionality.
• Perform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude for established programming standards, methods, and best practices.
• Mitigate significant risks associated with projects, which have high technical complexity and/or involve significant challenges to the business.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure shared use of standard tools and processes.
• Communicate effectively by using natural language and by writing clear and concise code.
Operational Management
• Manage and prioritize workload between project and maintenance tasks.
• Maintain and modify web applications; make approved changes by amending application documentation, developing detailed programming logic, and coding changes.
• Provide support for critical web application problems and issues.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert in the discovery and investigation of critical production problems as required.
• Train and teach other developers.
• Help foster the development of the team's cross-functional and collaborative capabilities.
Incidental Functions
• Conduct research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks.
• Train and knowledge share with development teams.
• Mentor and coach developers and/or Professional Apprentices.
• Project and task management and reporting as necessary.
• Make presentations to management, clients, and peer groups as requested.
• Schedule and lead project and communication meetings with clients.
• Provide tier 2, on-call support for critical web application problems and issues.
• Analyze the performance of websites and take action to correct deficiencies based on consultation with clients and approval of supervisor.
• Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
• Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensure compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
• Minimal travel is required
• Work outside the standard office 7.5 hour workday may be required.
Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent experience.
Knowledge & Experience
• 5+ years IT experience.
• 3+ years with CSS 3 and/or HTML5.
• 3+ years with JavaScript.
• 3+ years with a server-side programming language (i.e. Java, Python, PHP, etc.)
• 2+ years with a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) or NoSQL database.
• 5+ years of object-oriented analysis and design.
• Experience with version control systems such as git, mercurial, or subversion.
• Experience with command-line tools.
• Experience working on all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Experience working as part of an enterprise web team, interfacing with other developers, designers, web engineers, and external agencies or partners.
• Experience with Mac development environment.
Preferred Experience
• Experience working with content management solutions (A e Experience Manager)
• Experience working with HTL/Sightly skills; headless CMS
• Follow web accessibility (Section 508 and WAI) standards as well as WCAG 2.0 AA
• Experience in React
• Experience with HTML/CSS/JS debugging tools (Firebug, Chrome Developer)
• Experience creating and consuming web services (SOAP and/or RESTful)
• Experience with virtual machines and containerization
• Experience with unit tests/automated testing
• Experience with automated build scripts (such as Ant/Maven and/or Webpack/Gulp/NPM)
Personal Attributes
• Strong written and oral communications skills.
• Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
• Strong systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to quickly pick up new tools and technologies.
• Willingness and ability to train and teach others.
• Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
• Ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
• Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity.