YOUR POSITION WITH TNC
The Web Developer is a member of the Marketing Technology team, delivering technology-based web solutions in support of TNC’s flagship websites, nature.org and conservationgateway.org, to enhance capabilities and mitigate risks of TNC’s growing digital universe. They participate in all functions of technology applications development life cycle of TNC’s marketing systems, product and services to support Marketing’s goals.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
The Web Developer develops systems and solutions for marketing and conservation web strategies, multichannel outreach, geotargeting, personalization and measurement. They translate partner and user needs into system requirements following TNC web development methodology and best practices. They will be responsible for developing and maintaining TNC web systems, components, templates, interactive features, forms, tools and web pages. As needed, they act as a quality assurance analyst to conduct peer review and validate programmer work done in all phases of the project life cycle. They perform tasks assigned as required to complete projects including but not limited to; technical design, development, system documentation, generating reports and analyzing results. They provide support for troubleshooting and bug resolution as needed and assigned. They participate in dedicated systems teams, collaborating with other TNC business unit partners, and contributing to regular stand-ups and other meetings as needed.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
- Analyze and document end-user requirements for technology projects with medium degree of complexity at low levels of impact on organization-wide initiatives.
- Design and develop new technology systems and solutions according to system requirements following TNC methodology and development best practices.
- Act as team member on technology application maintenance projects related to application upgrades, conversions, and modifications.
- Perform tasks assigned as required to complete technology projects including technical design, development, system documentation, generating reports, and analyzing results.
- Provide support for production problems as assigned.
- Act as a quality assurance analyst to conduct peer reviews and validate programmer analyst work done in all phases of the project life cycle.
- Provide support for business applications including diagnosing problems requiring analysis and troubleshooting. Design and implement solutions for corrective action in consultation with product management team.
- Assist with data standards compliance and best practices to facilitate integration between systems within IT and its external partners.
- Acquire, maintain, expand, and convey knowledge of relevant technologies and businesses supported and serve as a mentor to other team members.
- Attend, and may conduct, training classes to maintain a knowledge base of current technology. Review technical publications on pertinent topics.
- Participate in dedicated systems teams as assigned, collaborating with other TNC business unit partners, and contributing to regular project meetings.
- Support and advise the Marketing Technology UX Team in the development of new web features and products.
- Analyze, design, develop and implement new web features and functionality based on end-user needs and business requirements, including page templates, components for content authors, advanced site search and filtering functionality, navigation and interactive elements, and related system configurations.
- Collaborate with and support dedicated IT teams in developing marketing technology systems.
- May supervise one or more administrative or professional staff.
- Some occasional travel may be required.
- Other related duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in information systems or a related field and 2 years’ progressive experience in an IT field or equivalent combination.
- Experience with full life-cycle technology application development.
- Experience in web development and image editing software (if necessary).
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience translating business requirements to systems development specifications and documenting those specifications.
- Experience in enterprise CMS platforms, including designing and building templates, components and workflows.
- Proficiency in client-side programming including modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks and the latest HTML proposed standard combined with the latest proposed standard for CSS.
- Experience in web development and image editing software.
- Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.
- Experience working in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) or similar CMS built on sling framework architecture.
- May include certifications, languages, software knowledge, such as experience in Atlassian applications (JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence); Java; analytics; CSS tokenization; and website internal search development.
- Familiarity and active participation in Agile events, including standups, backlog refinement and retrospectives.
- Knowledge of Atlassian products such as Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence appreciated.
- Ability to utilize knowledge to identify solutions, communication and influencing skills, specific managerial functions, etc.
- Experience working with APIs to connect disparate systems and/or databases is helpful.
