Hogarth is the Global Content Production Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
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The Role:
The Front End Developer Lead needs to build/modify responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. based on the visual briefs. The Front-End Developer will work on localization of the page based on the assets provided which includes updating links, images, and text in accordance to the client’s coding standards. As the senior, you will be responsible for the quality of code produced directly by yourself and your appointed team of developers.
They will work closely with other discipline leads (QA/PM) to ensure scoping, estimates and requirements are estimated correctly and delivered with minimal errors.
They must be enthusiastic about technology and constantly be looking at the next innovation. On top of possessing strong oral, interpersonal and organizational abilities, you must be able to work in a fast paced environment. Flexibility and tolerance are a necessity.
Key Responsibilities:
- They will be required to support with the training and mentoring of the development team
- Liaise with QA and PM teams to update on progress and drive the development to deliver to the highest standard
- Develop new digital assets as identified by supervisor and management
- Modify existing code to accommodate for a locale or create now assets based on existing guidelines – including changing image paths, server-side includes (SSI), file names, directories, other elements, and other development tasks
- Ensure all your work is performed according to the brief and minimum requirements for each client
- Develop fast and efficiently to meet tight deadlines
- Produce digital assets in several languages
- Update and amend existing assets
- Maintain client digital assets to the best of your ability using clean, accessible mark-up according to the latest web standards
- Help and advise project managers with client’s digital requests
- Keep an eye on the latest trends to help boost development efficiencies
- Awareness of the client's mobile platform with the ability to build solutions that take advantage of the latest operating system features while remaining performant on the latest devices
- Project and resource planning
- Take technical briefs from the client and brief it on to the rest of the team
- Interview and train new hires
- Share best practices with the other Lead Developers across the other markets
Requirements:
- A minimum of 10 years commercial development experience within an agency
- Experience leading teams of developers and oversight/delivery of successful web projects
- BA degree in computer science, MIS, or related experience with a grasp on data structures and algorithms
- Fluent in English and [insert native language], written and oral, due to the nature of the work
- Experience of creating technical and functional specifications
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organised
- Strong Subversion skills (command-line)
- Strong understanding and experience of branch management, continuous integration and agile approach
- Experience of working ticketing systems such as JIRA and how to break down tasks
- Experience of establishing code standards and best practice within development teams
- Expertise of FE pre-processing (Sass and Browserify)
- Expertise in web languages and standard technologies, including version control systems (SVN and GIT), repositories, and build tools (Grunt, Gulp)
- Expertise in HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, and JavaScript/JQuery
- Good JS debugging skills
- Experience with localization processes
- Responsive development experience
- Experience working with Front-End Frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation)
- Image manipulation software (Photoshop, Fireworks) and able to slice elements out of a PSD
- Accessible and SEO based coding
- Self-starter who is able to hand-code front-end NOT using any WYSIWYG tools like Dreamweaver and keen to learn new technologies
- Clear understanding of Usability
- Proficient in developing to W3C Standards
- Knowledge of the challenges of Email newsletter builds
- Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
- Experience in working with Bash shell
- Experience with optimization for mobile devices and familiarity with responsive and adaptive methods
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