Web Architect

WEB ARCHITECT

WE ARE SEEKING A TALENTED AND CREATIVE WEB ARCHITECT TO JOIN OUR SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE TEAM TO DEFINE THE FUTURE OF OUR CLIENT-SIDE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT.  YOU WILL APPRAISE AND PROMOTE THE FRAMEWORKS AND BEST PRACTICES THAT WE SHOULD ADOPT AS WELL AS PROVIDING A PROGRESSIVE DIRECTION FOR THE WEB DEVELOPMENT TEAMS ON PROJECTS.

This role is instrumental in driving the future development of all of our media and sales channels.  It is a great opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies in a world-leading E-commerce and media company.  You willparticipate in the definition of new functionality and processes whilst ensuring that the changing requirements of our Product Owners are delivered.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

- Work closely with our Creative and User Experience teams to deliver beautiful and intuitive web experiences
- As an advocate of web development you will define and effectively communicate our client-side architecture
- As our web technology evangelist you will publically represent NET-A-PORTER and promote it's use of cutting-edge web techniques through community events, our tech blog, etc
- Appraise, select and develop frameworks/libraries to create reusable and robust components to ease development and improve efficiency
- Capture and evolve guidelines and best practices for the web developers and ensure they are understood and applied consistently
- Work in partnership with Server Side development teams to define Client Server interfaces and response formats
- Work with the test teams to define our client-side testing strategy

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

- Proven experience heading up web development for a major site and enthusing web development teams to adopt progressive technologies/approaches to their work
- In depth knowledge of modern web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, browser/mobile/platform compatibilities, etc
- Mobile web development; detecting and support device capabilities, optimisations, etc
- Experience implementing data-driven web applications using various integration techniques such as REST (HATEOAS) and JSON
- Appraisal and adoption of JavaScript libraries/frameworks (jQuery, Backbone.js, etc.)
- Object Oriented, Functional and Event-Driven Programming concepts and design patterns
- Measuring site performance, optimising web content and JavaScript performance.  Experience with caching techniques including CDNs.
- Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation. 
- Solid appreciation of usability concerns and good design.  Experience measuring success criteria and using analytics/multi-variant tests to support product development
- CSS Pre-processors and Grids (SASS, Compass, Susy, etc.)
- Responsive design
- Semantic web and Search Engine Optimization techniques
- Client side unit- and feature-testing frameworks (JSUnit, Jasmine, etc.)
- Open source contribution 

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF THE FOLLOWING DESIRABLE 

- Web analytics tools and A-B/multi-variant testing techniques
- Content management systems
- Server Side JavaScript (node.js, rhino)
- Behavioural Driven Development for testing 

WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES THAT:   

- Are an excellent cross-team communicator
- Are a big-picture thinker
- Have a healthy dose of common sense and initiative
- Have a great sense of humour and attitude 

Location:
This role is based in our Head Office in W12.  

NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE