Digital Lead Developer, Charity/nfp, C£65k

**Digital Lead Developer, Charity/NfP, c£65k**

Reporting to the Head of Digital and working closely with an experienced and delightful Programme Manager, the Digital Technical Lead will work on a variety of digital solutions with budgets ranging from 10’ks to 100’ks managing contract resources and 3rdparty agency developers and having budgetary responsibility. Technical environment is predominantly Drupal, Wordpress and Salesforce. Key responsibilities will include:

- Ensuring all software solutions and development implemented meets technical/security/infrastructure needs of organisation i.e. QA
- Acts as the lead technical developer for all new software initiatives
- Prioritises and triages all work of developer team
- Decides when code is ready for deployment
- Directing work of developer team (staff, contractors and agency staff) to build software solutions / new website functionality to meet the needs of the organisation, including planning, designing, developing and liaising with 3rd parties, where required
- Ensure all development work (including word done by agency technical teams) follows industry standard coding practises, internal processes and is ready for deployment
- Supports the robust and open comms between developer team and digital project manager team, working closely with digital project managers and digital programme manager throughout project life cycle from initiation/discovery through to build and retrospectives
- Provide technical leadership with digital infrastructure work in collaboration with IT services team and external agencies, directing work that has high dependency between developer team, IT services team and agencies/contractors responsible for infrastructuresupport and ensure this work is managed appropriately
- Leading on technical strategy for digital estate, in terms of technical direction and decisions, recommending mitigations and solutions for technical risks and issues, and escalating any new risks/issues as required
- Leads on technical input and direction for new digital solutions being implemented by organisation
- Coaches and provides technical training support for team, as appropriate

You can demonstrate
- Excellent Drupal 9 knowledge (core + contrib modules, custom module and theme creation, Twig templating)
- Strong modern, object-oriented PHP experience using frameworks eg. Laravel, Symfony and dependency management via Composer, step debugging using XDebug
- Excellent modern Javascript knowledge including ES6/ES2015 modules, TypeScript etc.
- Thorough, demonstrable understanding of front end technologies ie. HTML5, CSS and modern workflow, tools to manage project complexity eg. Grunt, Gulp, Webpack etc.
- SQL database management experience
- NodeJS coding and project setup experience (eg. using NPM, Yarn)
- Strong knowledge of Git (Bitbucket Cloud experience useful) - evidence of ability to manage the merge, release process for multiple contributors as part of a QA and deployment pipeline
- Good experience of setting up and using Docker for local development - both raw Docker/Docker Compose and tools such as DDEV, Lando, Docksal
- Experience with cloud hosting platforms - specifically Pantheon but also eg. AWS EC2, Azure Cloud
- Familiarity with DevOps tools and workflows eg. Ansible, Puppet, Capistrano
- Linux admin skills sufficient to provide assistance to more junior staff in debugging software stack issues and also to infrastructure engineers during outages, attacks etc.
- Able to communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders

Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Landmark Faith Recruiting Solutions is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.