Essential Functions

Strategy & Planning

• Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates a functional specification, and determines 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.
• Estimate hours for project tasks.
• Schedule and lead brainstorming activities surrounding development functionality.
• Perform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude of 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 the shared use of standard tools and processes.
• Communicate effectively by using natural language and by writing clear and concise code.

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor degree or foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent experience.

Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years with CSS and/or HTML.
• 3+ years with CSS 3 and/or HTML5.
• 3+ years with JavaScript.
• React experience.
• 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.

Preferred Experience

• Understanding of responsive web development and design.
• Follow web accessibility (Section 508 and WAI) standards as well as WCAG 2.0 AA
• Experience working with content management solutions such as AEM.
• Experience in AngularJS and/or Angular.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.
• Experience with HTML/CSS/JS debugging tools (Firebug, Chrome Developer).
• Experience creating and consuming web services (SOAP and/or RESTful).
• Experience with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.
• 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 communication 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.