Lead Front-End Developer

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

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Job summary

This role qualifies for a £5000 per annum recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 8A base salary.

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.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an expert practitioner in front-end development who cares about software quality, user interfaces and experiences. You'll help to build new user interfaces using the NICE Design System component library, and improve existing front-end systems. You'll help to improve the NICE Design System and contribute to its roll out across services. You'll work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team with UX designers, developers, testers, business analysts and delivery managers. You'll lead the front-end community at NICE, helping to define front-end development principles and best practices. You'll play a key role in shaping departmental strategy where applicable. Mentoring and line management will be part of the role.

Our Tech StackWe're building a new web platform using full-stack React (Next.js) with Typescript. 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. We use Jest and RTL for front-end unit tests.

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. We develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services, including NICE's website which attracts more than 2 million users a month.

Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.

Our development teams work mostly remotely with an expectation of working 1 day a week at our Manchester city centre office as required by line manager/team.

Our benefits include:

Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.
Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays
Access to modern offices with showers, bike storage facilities and refreshments such as tea and coffee.
Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Eco-NICE, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
Personal development tailored to your needs.

Date posted

02 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum (plus R&R)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

907-622

Job locations

Level 1A

City Tower

Manchester

M1 4BT

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Lead Front-End Developer, you will:

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.

Line-manage a small team of senior and junior front-end developers including coaching and mentoring them with their skill development.

Be user-focussed, driven by user requirements and work closely with the User Experience Design team.

Plan and undertake the research and assessment of emerging front-end technologies for use across the wider department, including advising and influencing adoption plans.

Act as a digital ambassador for NICE and Digital Services by sharing experiences through blog posts and engaging with the front-end development community.

Design the data security of new and existing front-end systems in order to protect information from unauthorised access, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.

Establish and implement front-end development, accessibility and client-side performance best practice 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.

Assessment will be via a panel interview and a technical assessment for skills relevant to the role. Technical assessment will focus on the following competencies:

Knowledge of maintainable HTML, CSS and Javascript/React

Communicating to technical and non-technical colleagues

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 demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.

Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.