Job Description:

• Responsible for architecting and defining the Front-end framework to solve complex designs and interactions that reflect the user experience and creative proposition
• Mentor and guide all project activities on multiple small to medium sized projects or one large project
• Shift between a creative and a technical focus depending on the project need and/or the type of project
• Develop supporting proposal materials for projects
• Develop, scope and plan work
• Write technical documentation (admin guides), white papers, presentations, and contribute to determining internal processes
• Manage a group of developers
• Assist in recruiting new software developers 
• Manage the relationship with external software providers/vendors
• Make sure that the software quality of the team it’s at the highest level
• Work hand in hand with the Product Manager to set the scrum meetings
• Document all the software development in Confluence

Qualifications, Skills and Prior Work Experience:

• Extensive experience in Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) / Demandware is mandatory 
• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with front-end application architecture and development
• Experience with coding modular object-oriented JavaScript
• Knowledge and understanding about JavaScript design patterns (Factory Pattern, Strategy Pattern, Module Pattern, Reveal Pattern, Facade Pattern, Asynchronous Module Definition etc.)
• Well versed with jQuery framework and patterns used. Should be able to write custom plugins for jQuery
• Knowledge about JavaScript MV* frameworks
• Hands-on experience with AngularJS framework and its constructs like custom directives, services etc.
• Hands-on experience with CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS, STYLUS)
• Understanding and hand-on experience with writing modular CSS using SMACSS and Object Oriented CSS methodologies
• Understanding of front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, Semantic-UI and Foundation
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Experience and understanding with writing JavaScript unit tests (Jasmine + Karma)
• Experienced with front-end tooling able to write custom automation tasks for Grunt
• Experienced with architecture and development of front-end tailored for various Content Management Systems in the likes of Sharepoint, Umbraco, Episerver, Sitefinity and Sitecore
• Should maintain and extend front-end development Guidelines and boilerplate that is currently being used as a starting point for projects executed by both internal and offshore front-end development teams
• Should be able to incorporate and understand HTML5 semantic elements and understand the SEO benefits of Microdata and Google Rich snippets for inpage SEO
• University Degree in Information Systems/ Computer Science