Senior Front End Developer

We’re looking for a brilliant and enthusiastic Senior Front End Developer to lead our front-end development activity in the Digital Experience team here at the University of Bristol. You’ll be responsible for our technical strategy and roadmap for front-end services across intranet and web products, bringing our infrastructure and ways of working up to modern standards.

It’s an exciting time to take on this new role, as we look to roll out a new design system that will change how we deliver front-end services on our website. You’ll be a strong communicator, liaising with senior leaders to articulate technical limitations and possibilities within the current and future tech stack, in particular around new approaches with the design system.

Managing a small team of developers, you will deliver services and solutions that meet our users’ needs and achieve the university’s strategic objectives. You’ll set the standards and best practices for the team and for 3rd party developers and make sure they’re adhered to. You’ll also need to be an excellent developer yourself, leading by example.

You will:

• Create the strategy and roadmap for our front-end technical infrastructure.
• Be responsible for rolling out a new design system across the university.
• Manage a team to deliver new solutions that solve user and business problems for our website and intranet.
• Be responsible for maintaining existing solutions, responding to issues and fixing bugs promptly.
• Set development standards within the team and make sure we maintain high quality technical documentation.
• Undertake research to evaluate the financial and technical viability of projects according to possible technical solutions.

• Love to lead teams and get the best out of them, building really strong relationships with all team members.
• Understand how to prioritise well in a challenging environment, making effective decisions for the users and the business.
• Are passionate and a strong advocate for accessible and performant technical solutions.
• Are a strong communicator, with the ability to translate technical and complex issues into a language that senior stakeholders understand.
• Are enthusiastic about making significant positive change to the way we do front-end development in a complex organisation.
• Are highly skilled in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) and JavaScript libraries such as React and VueJS.
• Have a great understanding of modern front-end tooling, including Yeoman, Webpack, Node, NPM and Gulp.

Why should you apply for this role?

• You will join one of the leading research universities in the UK (ranked 5th REF 2021)
• You will be able to work with prestigious industry partners across various sectors
• We are the 2nd largest employer in Bristol
• Hybrid working (2 days in the Bristol office, 3 days from home)

Contract type: Open Ended

Work pattern: Full Time

Grade: K

Salary: £48,350 - £54,395

School/Unit: External Relations

This advert will close at23:59 GMTon 25th January 

For informal queries, please contact John Bourne, [email protected]

Interviews are anticipated to take place on week commencing the 12th February

We recently launched our strategy  to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

We’re looking for a brilliant and enthusiastic Senior Front End Developer to lead our front-end development activity in the Digital Experience team here at the University of Bristol. You’ll be responsible for our technical strategy and roadmap for front-end services across intranet and web products, bringing our infrastructure and ways of working up to modern standards.

It’s an exciting time to take on this new role, as we look to roll out a new design system that will change how we deliver front-end services on our website. You’ll be a strong communicator, liaising with senior leaders to articulate technical limitations and possibilities within the current and future tech stack, in particular around new approaches with the design system.

Managing a small team of developers, you will deliver services and solutions that meet our users’ needs and achieve the university’s strategic objectives. You’ll set the standards and best practices for the team and for 3rd party developers and make sure they’re adhered to. You’ll also need to be an excellent developer yourself, leading by example.

You will:

• Create the strategy and roadmap for our front-end technical infrastructure.
• Be responsible for rolling out a new design system across the university.
• Manage a team to deliver new solutions that solve user and business problems for our website and intranet.
• Be responsible for maintaining existing solutions, responding to issues and fixing bugs promptly.
• Set development standards within the team and make sure we maintain high quality technical documentation.
• Undertake research to evaluate the financial and technical viability of projects according to possible technical solutions.

• Love to lead teams and get the best out of them, building really strong relationships with all team members.
• Understand how to prioritise well in a challenging environment, making effective decisions for the users and the business.
• Are passionate and a strong advocate for accessible and performant technical solutions.
• Are a strong communicator, with the ability to translate technical and complex issues into a language that senior stakeholders understand.
• Are enthusiastic about making significant positive change to the way we do front-end development in a complex organisation.
• Are highly skilled in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) and JavaScript libraries such as React and VueJS.
• Have a great understanding of modern front-end tooling, including Yeoman, Webpack, Node, NPM and Gulp.

Why should you apply for this role?

• You will join one of the leading research universities in the UK (ranked 5th REF 2021)
• You will be able to work with prestigious industry partners across various sectors
• We are the 2nd largest employer in Bristol
• Hybrid working (2 days in the Bristol office, 3 days from home)

Contract type: Open Ended

Work pattern: Full Time

Grade: K

Salary: £48,350 - £54,395

School/Unit: External Relations

This advert will close at23:59 GMTon 25th January 

For informal queries, please contact John Bourne, [email protected]

Interviews are anticipated to take place on week commencing the 12th February

We recently launched our strategy  to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.