Job summary
We're looking for a Lead Front-End Developer to join our inclusive and dedicated engineering team at NICE. We're passionate about meeting user needs whilst building robust and sustainable technology solutions.
Responsibilities
As a Lead Front-End Developer, you lead the delivery of front-end work, supporting and mentoring other front-end developers
You will be an expert practitioner in front-end development approaches to deliver accessible and performant user interfaces. You'll help establish a front-end strategy for NICE, evolving our Design System component library and bring a front-end perspective to roadmaps. You'll help to improve the front-end discipline at NICE, mentoring other front-end developers and establishing front-end development principles and best practices.
Our Tech Stack
We're building a new web platform using full-stack React (Next.js). We also have C# for backend services, SQL and NoSQL databases. We use elasticsearch for search and we run our apps on AWS with a growing interest in cloud-native architectures.
Contract type: Permanent, full time or part-time (min 22.5 hours per week)
This role qualifies for a £5000 per annum recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 8A base salary.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the build of maintainable, accessible web applications, user interfaces and the NICE Design System to serve a variety of user needs and NICE services, taking responsibility for the quality of the code you produce.
- Be user-focussed and driven by user requirements.
- Have an eye for design and work closely with the User Experience Design team to advise on prototypes.
- Establish and implement front-end development, accessibility and client-side performance best practise policies for the development department, including training of the wider team.
- Develop a front-end development strategy for NICE Digital Services, including negotiating technical priorities with senior technical staff.
- Plan and undertake the research and assessment of emerging front-end technologies for use across the wider department, including advising and influencing adoption plans.
- Be a self-directed learner, keeping up to date with modern front-end tools and techniques.
- Work independently, having a high level of disciplined self-management and ownership of front-end development issues.
- Be able to communicate highly complex technical issues and risks to non-technical business stakeholders external to the team, both verbally and written.
- Recruit senior and junior front-end developers including sifting and interviewing
- Coach and mentor front-end developers with their skill development.
About us
The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user-centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams. Together with analytics and insight we develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services. We are playing a key role in the implementation of NICE's digital transformation programme, and also keeping our critical live services running well.
The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF which together attract more than 2 million users a month.
The directorate is also responsible for NICE's internal guidance production systems including content management, authoring, and publishing systems, with a view to generate internal efficiencies and to ensure NICE takes advantage of digital innovations arising across the health and care landscape, such as machine learning and data science. As such DIT has a key role to play in keeping NICE's guidance relevant, high-quality, up-to-date, and accessible.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, remote/flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. Our development teams work mostly remotely with occasional travel into our Manchester city centre office as required by line manager/team.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, remote/flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. Our development teams work mostly remotely with occasional travel into our Manchester city centre office as required by line manager/team.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience building robust, cross-browser and cross-device user interfaces
- Experience in building accessible interfaces that work for as many users as possible, regardless of their needs
- Experience of using testing to validate solutions
Desirable
- Experience maintaining and using design systems
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), ReactJS and JS build tools
- Detailed knowledge of semantic HTML5 and CSS3 and SASS
- Detailed understanding of progressive enhancement and other front-end software design principles
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience building robust, cross-browser and cross-device user interfaces
- Experience in building accessible interfaces that work for as many users as possible, regardless of their needs
- Experience of using testing to validate solutions
Desirable
- Experience maintaining and using design systems
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), ReactJS and JS build tools
- Detailed knowledge of semantic HTML5 and CSS3 and SASS
- Detailed understanding of progressive enhancement and other front-end software design principles
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
