Senior Associate

Company Description

ReSources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communications group. Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Re:Sources has grown to 5,000+ people servicing a global network of prestigious advertising, public relations, media, healthcare and digital marketing agencies. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury and risk management to help Publicis Groupe agencies do what they do best: create and innovate for their clients.
In addition to providing essential, everyday services to our agencies, Re sources develops and implements platforms, applications and tools to enhance productivity, encourage collaboration and enable professional and personal development. We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. With our support, Publicis Groupe agencies continue to create and deliver award-winning campaigns for their clients.

Job Description

Position Description

Enterprise Applications Services:

Position title: Node JS Developer

Department: Enterprise Applications Services

Location: Position has a global remit

Reports to (role): Manager Technology

Main purpose:

• Be the direct contact for internal clients for all technical aspects during the initial engagement and kick-off stages of application development projects. Have the ability to drive high level solution architecture design (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Support the project team for all infrastructure related issues, including Agile tools and Source Control.
• Provide knowledge on full-scale continuous delivery process & solutions and understand continuous integration and automated tests (unit, front-end, load) frameworks, scripts and other artefacts created by engineers and be able to support the systems evolution as and when necessary.
• Be responsible for the setup, continuous maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of development/ testing/ staging and production environments across internal clients accounts in collaboration with the technology team.

Key responsibilities:

The key accountabilities for this role are, but not limited to;

• Sprint planning, Product Demonstrations
• The technical team is appropriately mentored.
• The deliverables for each Sprint are clearly understood by the Agile Team(s).
• Ensure that the Agile team(s) delivers working software of sufficient quality to deliver to clients at the end of each development sprint.
• Provide Risk Management for all technical risks
• The Agile Requirements Repository is properly administered.
• Source Control repositories are appropriately managed
• The Agile team receives sufficient resourcing to be able to complete its objectives.

Specific responsibilities:

• Write maintainable and effective code base
• Follow best practices for test driven environment, continuous integration.
• Design, develop, test and implement end-to-end requirement
• Contribute on all phases of development life cycle
• Perform unit testing and troubleshooting applications
• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Business Compliance

Ensure a sound understanding of, demonstrate commitment to and comply with all legislation & Publicis Groupe Policies e.g., Janus, GSO and IT policies, etc.

Personal & Team Accountabilities

Actively develop and maintain strong working relationships with all Re:Sources personnel both at a interpersonal level and across all business processes within the wider business environment.

Actively maintain communication and behaviour standards that foster a culture of strong customer and service excellence both within Re:Sources and across all customer and supplier organisations.

Key relationships

(internal &/or external):

Re:Sources Teams, particularly Business Improvement and IT

Agile Development Teams

External System Suppliers

Key

competencies:

Minimum experience (relevant): 5

Maximum experience (relevant): 9

Must have skills:

• Strong knowledge of scripting like EJS, JavaScript, Typescript and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Node frameworks like Express JS.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks like Angular and React.
• Strong proficiency in MySQL/MsSQL
• Experience in writing unit tests (JEST/ MOCHA/CHAI)
• In Depth Knowledge of Creating Secure Restful Web Services or Microservices along with caching, content management capabilities. Knowledge of API Design and Development and Security Patterns on API.
• Consistently performing code review
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure Cloud

Good to have skills :

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university; Master's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
• Facilitation of requirements analysis meetings
• Agile techniques and methodologies
• Knowledge of Agile lifecycle management repositories

Attributes/behaviours

• Ability to design, develop, implement complex requirement.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Pro-active support to the business is a key attribute for this role with a customer service focus to link both systems requirements with business outcomes.

Declaration

I have fully read the above position description. I declare that:

• • I accept and understand my responsibilities listed in this position description and agree to carry them out to the best of my ability.
  • I accept and understand the potential implications of breaching my responsibilities listed in this position description, including the possibility of disciplinary action and / or dismissal.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) currently in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at-will" relationship.

Re:Sources is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualifications

Must Be IT Graduate.

Additional Information

6+ Years of experience in Node JS

Publicis Groupe Commitment to Diversity & Equity Policy:

Publicis Groupe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in spirit and in action at every level of the organization. It reflects our core values and embodies our purpose of building a great company enabling human potential. We have a deep-rooted appreciation for how diversity of thought drives innovation, and we ground that value in a culture of collaboration and connected thinking.

• Diversity & inclusion are business imperatives on which Publicis Groupe will not negotiate. While fostering a work environment that is inclusive of all talent is a collective responsibility, it is leadership’s job to nurture the career aspirations and goals of all our talent. Promoting gender equality starts at the top and the Groupe will not tolerate anyone speaking for our organization who does not value the importance of inclusion. Publicis Groupe works very hard to champion diversity and will continue to insist that each agency’s leadership be champions of both diversity and inclusion.
• Our Core values “ VIVA LA DIFFERENC’E is based on the very aspect of celebrating differences 
• Our strategy focuses on bringing together teams with diverse perspectives, disciplines, and experiences, because diversity of thought best serves our clients and their customers who they aspire to impact

Equal Employment Commitment:

1. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
2. When recruiting, developing and promoting our employees, our decisions will be based solely on performance, merit, competence and potential.
3. We shall have fair, transparent and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with applicable law and other provisions of this Code. These policies shall provide for clear terms of employment, training, development and performance management.