Desired Skills and Experience

  • Works closely with the Creative Director and other developers to maintain and evolve the development standards of the agency
  • Considers development beyond the brief, and extends it to include commercial aspects and business value considerations
  • Articulates the reasons for evolvement of the development brief and how to improve the product beyond the brief
  • Demonstrates high levels of attention to detail and standards of accuracy in all code deliverables
  • Maintains and improves working knowledge of key development languages
  • Works as part of a New Business pitch team to sell the capabilities of the development function
  • Stays on the cutting edge, keeping up to date with new techniques and technologies, with a desire to learn and experiment
  • Develops design and UX knowledge to a sufficient standard, collaborating with other delivery functions
  • Develops and progresses opportunities to diversify the development product portfolio, highlighting opportunities to expand the agency capability set
  • Ensures best practice, experience and knowledge of best practices for development standards is adopted
  • Shows a clear adoption and development of latest techniques, offering exploratory solutions to development requirements
  • Develops a good ideology for managing maintainable, scalable solutions and blueprint products (re-usable assets)
  • Maintains regular day-to-day contact with key internal stakeholders to manage their expectations
  • Works to ensure clear communication with internal and external contacts through the most appropriate method
  • Inspires others to deliver their tasks to schedule and inside budgeted time
  • Raises delivery time scale concerns as soon as possible to limit damage to the project and allocated time budget
  • Tracks the marketplace to highlight any currently unseen commercial opportunities, escalating where appropriate
  • Encourages and inspires excellence in development and design teams
  • Motivates colleagues to work together in the most efficient manner including Project Management and Client Services
  • Actively challenges the status quo looking for ways to improve solutions recommended across teams
  • Consistently acknowledges and appreciates each team member’s contribution
  • Records and shares lessons learned with team members to facilitate continuous improvement
  • Ensures development architecture is always current and repositories are set up and maintained correctly
  • Accurately completes timesheets by the end of each week, and includes any information that is pertinent to the tracking of projects
  • Maintains all software to current version, escalating awareness of new software if necessary to complete tasks, as soon as possible.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of clients’ businesses and the context of their projects
  • Identifies additional opportunities as they relate to a specific project or client
  • Continually seeks opportunities to improve delivery against customer requirements
  • Be mindful of wider agency and client objectives and work with all areas of the business to deliver against them
  • Works closely with line manager to maximise own strengths, improve weaknesses and support individual and team career development
  • Maintains a good understanding of technologies, web development technologies and best practices and creative trends
  • Maintains a thorough understanding of LEWIS’ production capabilities
  • Maintains awareness of new and emerging trends and technologies and their potential within client projects
  • Runs and supports training sessions, with a view to maximising opportunities to expand team skills and grow revenues
  • Takes a proactive role in promoting the LEWIS brand, its work, identity and values
  • Supports the HR / talent team by promoting both internal and external opportunities at LEWIS across social media and via the referral scheme
  • Contributes and supports the continuous improvement of LEWIS systems, practices and policies
  • Regularly attends LEWIS training sessions and daily press briefings to enhance skills and develop knowledge
  • Be a positive voice for the agency, seeking to solve problems in proactive, collaborative and non-confrontational way
  • Minimum 2:1 degree in a technical discipline
  • 3 years C# / ASP.Net Development experience (MVC)
  • 2 Years Sitecore CMS Development Experience and/or 2 Years Sitefinity CMS Development Experience is preferred but not essential
  • Currently working on Sitecore Version 7+
  • Microsoft SQL 2008+
  • 2 years digital agency experience
  • Fully competent across Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Development methodologies both Agile and Waterfall
  • A sound level of sys admin knowledge and server management including hosting architectures
  • An understanding of ‘front end’ - HTML, CSS, jQuery
  • A quick learner and forward thinking
  • A passion for digital
  • Ambition and drive
  • A proactive approach and an ability to work independently
  • Must have strong communication skills, written and verbal
  • Fluent English Speaker
  • A well-rounded understanding of modern web technologies
  • Experience of delivering technically sophisticated / complex creative solutions – demonstrable ability to talk the talk with clients, suppliers and business stakeholders
  • Positive attitude and strong work ethic
  • Well organised, detail driven and results orientated
  • Leadership skills, able to motivate and inspire a team
  • Positive communication and negotiation skills, able to adapt leadership style to deal with different people and environments
  • A passion for digital; interest in latest digital trends, technology and innovation
  • Sets a good example for more junior members of the team

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