Development Lead (Project)

Description:

Key Accountabilities
The following aspects of this role are indicative only and in no way limit the Company in allocating additional accountabilities (specific tasks, projects, or related activities) to the employee, within the scope of the employees level of competence, experience, knowledge, and qualification.
Responsibility Area
Website application development & deliver
Action and oversee development for new and existing responsive landing pages, websites and STP applications.
Perform and lead technical scoping to produce functional requirements and specifications for the team to follow and execute
Apply logic and analysis to understand the cause of problems and to identify the best solution taking into account the impact on stakeholders and others involved.
Help others, provide assistance with minimal direction, and communicate effectively to ensure all expectations are met.
Merge code and prepare releases for deployment, outside of business hours, ensuring minimal disruption to the business.
Rollback releases when problems arise, and testing does not pass.
Leadership
Perform line management, facilitate personal development and be an example to the other developers.
Demonstrate the ability to lead team projects and otherwise offer leadership during periods of business change and growth.
Demonstrate the ability to set high quality coding and process standards that have the support of the team and reflect industry benchmarks
Manage team resources and help raise skills in the team to deliver required outcomes.
Communicate effectively to the team, drive good documentation, and help relate our practices and processes, so that the benefits are understood
Prototyping, research, and innovation
Research new and upcoming technologies, frameworks, and trends
Develop innovative ways to share/capture information
Learn and improve current skills in Web development
Propose and prototype new technologies and solutions
Code Quality & Testing
Ensure cross-browser/device/platform functional compatibility testing is carried out
Peer review development work to ensure quality control and workflows are adhered to
Define & adhere to performance budgets, completing page speed analysis checks and code optimisations.
Essential
Excellent supervisory and management skills
Excellent consultation and communication skills
Tertiary level qualifications (e.g., bachelors degree or higher) in a relevant computer science discipline.
At least 5 years front-end web development
Strong corporate web design/development experience ideally within the financial services space
Strong JavaScript (jQuery and native), HTML5 and CSS3 (LESS) skills
Working knowledge of web design and development tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Sublime Text and Visual Studio
Experience working with Content Management Systems
Experience developing responsive websites for mobile devices
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