OPG-001 Senior Front End Developer

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Who Speclialist Work With Developer is expected to work with Product Manager, WebOps team, Back-end Developers, User Researcher and UX Designer What Specialists Work On 1. Do the front-end development work on the 'SIRIUS' case management system 2. Maintain existing functionality and produce new features to ensure that the the business critical application (Sirius - a custom-built, open source case management system hosted on AWS) is iterated and improved via user first principles Where the Work Takes Place Expected to work from Embankment House, Nottingham Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements Expected to work onsite at least 3 days a week, with the option to work remotely for 2 days a week. Work Location Expected to work from Embankment House, Nottingham Security Clearance Baseline security clearance e.g. DBS or Disclosure Scotland. National Security Clearance may also be required once onsite Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Write well-structured HTML/Javascript/CSS that is semantically correct. Excellent knowledge of AngularJS and Protractor Javascript: understand prototypical inheritance and be able to create testable, modular code CSS3 with LESS experience Working within an agile environment WAI accessibility expertise [Level A, AA, AAA] Grunt, Gulp or equivalent Knowledge of the Git version control system Nice to Haves Good understanding of the GDS design principles and Service Design Manual Knowledge of Jira and Confluence Experience of Continuous integration (preferably with Jenkins) Good Docker knowledge Experience of Elasticsearch Experience of AWS hosting Basic PHP (Zend Framework 2) with experience of PHP Templates, Twig or similar. BDD and automated user acceptance testing using tools such as Gherkin/Cucumber, Behat and Webdriver Worked with a server based MVC framework Able to manipulate images in an image editor such as Photoshop or Pixelmator Responsive CSS, able to work across a wide range of devices and browsers User research and experience of co-locating with users and acting on feedback Some content design experience No. of Specialists to Evaluate 8 Cultural Fit Criteria A good understanding of the GDS design principles and Service Design Manual Working within an agile environment Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 5% Price 35% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet Budget range £580