Roles & Responsibilities:

• Partner with Engineering Manager – IAC, Content Engineering Lead and Service Delivery Lead – IAC to drive a technical direction and standards for web and front-end applications across the enterprise
• Plan and manage technical throughput of work in the web space aligning with engineering leadership to ensure focus on the right outcomes
• Articulate technical direction and upskill anyone leveraging core web platforms including internal and external engineers across all digital applications
• Drive to standard technical implementation leveraging standard languages, frameworks, and pipelines
• Drive modernisation plan to bring legacy applications in line with new standards where appropriate
• Partner with core engineering group to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon in addition to cost of running our web capabilities globally
• Ensure secure reliable and efficient operation ensuring the latest standards are adopted
• Position the web toolkit and associated capabilities amongst other internal and external capability
• Provide technical leadership, consultation for functional team engineers and outsourced partners providing trouble shooting and support when using the platform
• Deploy squads as required to support functional engineering in leveraging the core web services
• Look for opportunities to modernise applications running on the core platform helping company to maximise investments and drive more reliable outcomes
• Drive web core technical direction ensuring we continue to invest in a strong core foundation
• Coach engineers in the web core team helping their technical development
• Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control
• Lead the squad attending daily stand ups and building against defined backlog items
• Report up process, activity and key achievements across the team
• Help break user stories into technical deliverables

External Skills And Expertise

Must have Skills:

• ReactJS
• TypeScript
• Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud

Good to have:

• Node JS
• Rest API
• CICD

• Knowledge on ReactJs & TypeScript
• Experience leveraging headless API-driven CMS and common development toolchain including Github suite (SCM, Actions)
• Javascript experience including experience with node.JS, next.js advantageous
• Experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)
• Experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
• Experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.)
• Experience working within a “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.
• Proven track record of “hands-on” software engineering (e.g. Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, etc.)
• Experience with SaaS technologies advantageous including; Salesforce, Veeva, Kentico Kontent
• Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.
• Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.
• Experience working with authentication and authorisation protocols/patterns.
• Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.
• Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.
• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that result in a definitive direction.
• Experience and knowledge of infrastructure, CICD and deployment an advantage

Experience

• 5-8 years