We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Customer Services team focusing on the Hackney website.
The Lead Software Engineer will provide technical expertise needed to explore CMS platform options for for a local authority website (.gov.uk).
This investigation forms part of a wider website discovery project, exploring transformative improvements to enhance the resident experience and maximise the website's value by increasing digital uptake.
Activities will include:
- Review of the current Wordpress CMS Identify existing issues within the code
- Recommend improvements to this CMS based on our high level requirements
- Estimate effort required to make improvements
- Evaluation of other CMS options
- Compare against our website high level requirements
- Estimate effort required to build a new website on these platforms
- Evaluate potential value against effort, in order to recommend the preferred CMS for the Hackney website
- Contribute to a CMS options recommendation
The suitable candidate will require:
- Working with CMS Extensive knowledge of Wordpress and other CMS platforms
- Confident working with frontend development languages, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Confident working with CMS specific languages such as PHP.
- Demonstrable experience delivering CMS products.
- CMS Evaluation Ability to critically evaluate various technical products (CMS) and present findings to a non-technical audience.
This is a 6 month contract and it will be a hybrid role starting immedately. If your interested in this role please apply and I will contact you back to discuss this in more detail.