Web Design jobs in Higham Ferrers

Sage Homes is an innovative Blackstone and Regis business addressing the housing crisis in England by making good homes affordable for people across the country who need them.

Since 2017 we have delivered around 12,000 new homes across affordable rent, shared ownership and social rent for individuals and families. In 2021 Sage Homes became the largest provider of new affordable housing in England, and by 2030 we have committed to deliver 30,000 high-quality affordable homes across the country.

We have invested more than £3 billion into high-quality affordable housing. Our entrepreneurial spirit combined with our technical expertise has got us to where we are today and will enable future sustainable growth.

We are seeking a talented and motivated Web Developer to join our growing team. As Web Developer you will be responsible for the development of both our new Kentico based Tenant Portal and our Sales Power Apps Portal. This role may also support some training, deployment and project administration tasks.

You will work with Business Analysts, Data Analyst, Project Managers, and Business Team SME's as required.

The role is based in our Northampton office with hybrid working arrangements of 2- 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home if required.

Duties include:

• To be the subject matter expert for web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap etc
• To ensure, with the support of their Development team peers and Technical Architects, that development work is delivered on time and budget and in line with the technical vision for the project and company best practices.
• Build web pages in both the Kentico and Power Apps platforms
• Follow established Sage design guidelines
• Performing peer reviews against the work of others, in line with quality standards.
• Refining and estimating work using standard Agile practices and methodologies.
• Liaise with users to refine requirements and deliver better solutions
• To strive to improve technical and agile skills, both through on-the-job upskilling and through requesting support/training where necessary.
• Creating and maintaining sufficient levels of documentation for the solutions produced.

As the successful candidate, you will be highly skilled in the required technologies and delivery focussed. You will be passionate, committed, organised, and a fast learner, while at the same time being adaptable, coachable, and open to new approaches to technology solution projects.

Most important:

• Experience with Kentico or other content management systems and MS Dynamics
• Technical competency in server-side development, with a focus on web technologies and associated frameworks, predominantly based upon ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core or Node, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
• Experience with user experience (UX) design
• Azure/Cloud Devops deployment experience
• Agile experience: Writing Epics, Personas, and User Stories
• Create detailed requirements, including acceptance criteria
• Writing and execution of test cases that tie to design requirements
• Can create OPM on whiteboard
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint

Important:

• Experience of Progressive Web Apps and it's offline functionality
• Experience in full life cycle of complex software deployment projects
• Experience with SQL Server
• A working knowledge of source control techniques, specifically using Git
• Capture bugs and enhancements requests
• Experience with Jira or similar
• An understanding of the different types of testing, including experience of Unit Testing

Desirable, but not essential:

• Experience of Power Apps Portals, .NET, C#, SQL
• Contribute to deployment plans
• Comprehensive organisational design experience

We are committed to ensuring you have the best career here at Sage. As well as regular support and guidance from your manager you can expect to receive a variety of learning and development opportunities to support you as you grow within our business. This includes internally and externally delivered development programmes and opportunities to study for professional accreditations and qualifications.

We truly care about the outcomes we deliver; creating safe and environmentally friendly places for people to flourish. And we're curious, passionate and inventive in the way we create social change.

Sage is a fast-paced and supportive environment where ambitious and proactive employees thrive. People are empowered to use their pioneering efforts to grow themselves and our business.

We are proudly committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where the diversity of our people and their ideas are truly valued and we love to see applicants from diverse backgrounds and different walks of life.

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