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• To provide technical expertise and best practice development for web applications.
• Collaborate on TUI JavaScript Framework development
• To support team members with:
  1. Creating/maintaining Coding Standards
  2. Supporting and promoting Code Reviews
  3. Contributing to TUI JS framework API Documentation
• Functional prototyping

What You'll Be Doing

• Assist in defining a completely new Web Front End Framework
• Contribute to defining new Coding Standards including page performance recommendations and SLAs.
• Review other team members code and submit theirs for review.
• Support UI Team members and the wider Project Team members with changes to the development approach/methodology at TUI
• Drive quality & performance improvements by promoting new working practices
• Deliver significant improvements across our 3 major brand websites: Thomson, First Choice and Falcon Holidays
• Functional Prototyping
• Support our Legacy systems until their replacement via Phoenix
• Agree technical design with application developers and architects.
• Review and sign off documentation and communicate any need for change.
• Support developments through design, build, test, implementation and look for ways to improve quality and reduce risk.
• Effectively communicate progress and issues with the Project Managers and Project team
• Engage with the Project Team through entire project life cycle
• Work with your manager to help improve the quality delivered by all team members
• Ensure that change requests are captured and communicated to the Project Manager and Project teams so that impact can be assessed
• Communicate the need for change and highlight any opportunities to management concisely with a constructive benefits case

What We're Looking For

• Web, Mobile and Prototyping design principles and experience
• JavaScript expert comfortable using design patterns with JavaScript
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Java presentation layer experience
• CMS development and configuration experience. Hybris, Sitecore, Alfresco etc
• Extensive experience in systems analysis taking business requirements through to low-level design
• Strong team player
• Full understanding of the project life cycle
• Ability to provide accurate estimations
• Adaptable to changing priorities.
• Able to work on own initiative and anticipate workloads
• Awareness of targets and constraints and ability to work to these
• Team Player
• Takes Ownership and Action
• Positive outlook
• Able to adapt and influence
• Creative and Innovative
• Challenges to do better
• Customer Focus
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of both agile and waterfall development methodologies

Key Relationships (Internal & External contacts):

• Person(s) Nature
• Development Manager Line Manager
• Offshore Delivery Managers Consult, inform
• Project Managers Consult, inform
• Test Manager Consult, Consult, inform
• Technical Architects Consult, inform
• Web Designers Consult, inform
• User Experience Designers Consult, inform

Any additional relevant information:

• Encourage a Test driven development approach to help improve productivity and code integrity
• Multi Channel development team working on Web, Mobile Web & Apps, B2B & Enterprise applications
• Functional prototyping iterative development methodologies.

4 Key Technical Skills (Assessment Criteria):

• Technical Skills 1 JavaScript - Native & multiple Frameworks (Dojo, jQuery etc). Object Orientated, progressive enhancement, unobtrusive, design patterns and TDD
• Technical Skills 2 JSTL, Velocity, Spring MVC - Understanding of Java Presentation layer best
  practice built upon a business/service layer
• Technical Skills 3 XHTML/HTML5 - Semantic/well formed
• Technical Skills 4 CSS - Cross browser compatible but also experience of progressive enhancement and experience with Less an advantage
• Technical Skills 5 Apache Web Server - Set up and configuration
• Technical Skills 6 Tomcat Application Server - Set up and configuration
• Technical Skills 7 Version Control/SVN