Lead Interface Developer

Company Description

Digitas is the Global Marketing & Technology Services brand and part of Publicis Groupe.Digitas' Connected Marketing Agency proposition is based on the principle that there are better ways for brands to connect with people and people with each other. Leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities and a proprietary planning process called North, Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes for our clients. Recognised by Gartner, Forrester, IDC and WARC, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 4,000 employees across over 30 countries and 50 offices.Digitas India’s 300+ member technology teams works with some marquee brands in India, North America, UK, Nordics and Australia. Our teams comprise of people with some of the most advanced technology skillsets and platform expertise – Front end, Mobile, Content Management (Sitecore, Adobe, Episerver, Drupal], Commerce [Hybris, Demandware, Magento, Sitecore], Marketing Automation [Adobe, Salesforce], DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure and more. We are Strategic & implementation partners with best OEM’s like Sitecore (Gold), Adobe (Premium), Salesforce, Acquia.Our offices are in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai, with flexible options for our talent to operate from any part of the country.To connect with Digitas or learn more, visit: www.digitas.com/en-in/

Job Description

Operations

• Owning responsibility of technical decisions made on Ops tickets and projects.
• Estimates work stream-related activities accurately with Service Delivery/Project Manager
• Ensure system performance targets are achieved; with regards to incident, service request SLA’s and maintaining or improving service KPI’s.
• Through strong relationships collaborate and triage with internal and external colleagues to resolve ‘cross system/functional’ incidents/problems to resolution.
• Implement or improve operational standards by introducing/improving standards such as daily checks, batch/job management, housekeeping, monitoring, log/error management and diagnostic capture
• Collaborate with service delivery and release managers to support changes into production reducing any impact.
• Ensure completeness of root cause analysis for major/critical incidents, and where possible resolve or provide workarounds, suggestions and improvements to mitigate future incidents.
• Work within a live DB environment ensuring application functionality and business workflows are performing, and functional.

General

• Adopts a flexible approach to completing workload to ensure delivery within agreed timeframes
• Ensures that technical solution is implemented according to technical design and standards/best practices
• Maintains, up-to-date, accurate and thorough technical design and support documentation covering areas of project responsibility
• Anticipates and reports delivery issues clearly and at the earliest possible opportunity to Project Manager and Technical Team Lead
• Unit tests code and delivers high quality work to agreed deadlines.
• Perform code reviews
• Ensures team follow documented technical design and standards/best practices
• Conducts self and communicates professionally with clients and colleagues
• Exhibit professionalism in-terms of code quality, code performance, maintainability and reusability
• Ensure completion of work as per project plan/timeline shared by PM or SDM
• Provide regular updates on tasks to PM or SDM based on which they can manage client expectations.
• Pro-active in maintaining and increasing the teams and your own technical knowledge
• Identify training needs or requirements for yourself individually and for the team
• Coach, mentor and develop team members - mentors junior colleagues offering opinions and input in a supportive manner
• Ensure all technical and non-technical support documentation is up-to-date on Confluence
• May be required to work on Planned On-Call from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience

• Computer Science Degree through a reputable University.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, Responsive websites
• Experience of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms such as SASS and LESS
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Javascript language -advantage if can also write server side
• Able to communicate with back-end via AJAX, WebSockets
• Strong knowledge of advanced javascript libraries and frameworks, such as React, jQuery, BootStrap, Foundation, BoilerPlate
• Experience in MVC frameworks used on server side e.g. Express and view templating languages e.g. Jade, handlebars etc
• Knowledge of build tools eg Gulp/Grunt/Bower/Yeoman
• Strong understanding of SEO, accessibility, and performance optimization
• Experienced of writing unit tests in BDD style using libraries like Mocha.js and assertion libraries like Expect.js and TDD such as Jasmine.js
• Ability to evaluate technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Cross browser development proficiency
• Problem solving skills, having ability to read, review and fix code of peers
• Experience with IIS/Apache, GIT / Bitbucket
• Experience in client communication via Email and over Conference Calls.
• Should have > 6+ years of relevant experience

In addition, the following would be beneficial:

• Exposure to one or more of the following enterprise eCommerce or CMS solutions such as AEM, Episerver / Optimizely or Sitecore
• Experience of NodeJS development and frameworks including Express and Angular
• Ready to work during UK Business Hours: 12 to 9 PM I.S.T
• Flexibility to work in Multi client setup as per changing priorities & Business needs

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Additional Information

Publicis Groupe Commitment to Diversity & Equity Policy:

Publicis Groupe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in spirit and in action at every level of the organization. It reflects our core values and embodies our purpose of building a great company enabling human potential. We have a deep-rooted appreciation for how diversity of thought drives innovation, and we ground that value in a culture of collaboration and connected thinking.

• Diversity & inclusion are business imperatives on which Publicis Groupe will not negotiate. While fostering a work environment that is inclusive of all talent is a collective responsibility, it is leadership’s job to nurture the career aspirations and goals of all our talent. Promoting gender equality starts at the top and the Groupe will not tolerate anyone speaking for our organization who does not value the importance of inclusion. Publicis Groupe works very hard to champion diversity and will continue to insist that each agency’s leadership be champions of both diversity and inclusion.
• Our Core values “ VIVA LA DIFFERENC’E is based on the very aspect of celebrating differences 
• Our strategy focuses on bringing together teams with diverse perspectives, disciplines, and experiences, because diversity of thought best serves our clients and their customers who they aspire to impact

Equal Employment Commitment:

1. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
2. When recruiting, developing and promoting our employees, our decisions will be based solely on performance, merit, competence and potential.
3. We shall have fair, transparent and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with applicable law and other provisions of this Code. These policies shall provide for clear terms of employment, training, development and performance management.