Lead Frontend Consultant
About the role and what you'll be doing
Our Technical Leads are hands-on, and using your knowledge of application architecture, be responsible for selecting and building the most suitable frontend solution for your client, this will include architecting CSR and SSR mixed solutions and influencing the success of the project.
You will work closely with senior technical people from the client, navigating through complex stakeholder relationships, guiding architectural and technical decisions, as well as coaching and mentoring members of the project team.
Amido has a diverse set of communities, as well as your core competency that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to, and learn from, where projects and client commitments allow.
You will be a self-starter, and proactive in your project work and your career, continuously looking for ways to add value, improve and lead your community and Amido.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely for a majority of the time so if you are not required to be on client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Amido offices.
What you’ll bring to Amido
You will be in a leadership position working across the SDLC on large, complex and scalable projects with high volume and high availability microservices. Such as, you’ll need to bring your skills and experience:
- Working with Vanilla JavaScript and the advantages and disadvantages of the different frameworks
- Designing and implementing system solutions using appropriate cloud-based services/platform with a deep understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of different enterprise environments
- Architecting back end for front end and architecting and implementing a containerised frontend solution
- Architecting a CSR and SSR mixed solution and articulating the reasoning behind the solution
- Creating design systems and CSS libraries, linking both functional and design engineering
- Working with creative and UX designers to create suitable behavioural elements within the design system
- Confidently providing direction to your team, resolving challenges and being responsible for outcomes
- Creating a collaborative team environment where everyone’s opinion is heard, but you know when to be assertive, back down or escalate
- Understanding the way projects affect your client’s success and adds value to their business
- Great communication skills in particular: presenting, collaborating and partnering with stakeholders
What we offer you
- We will give you a place to strive and grow, where you will have the opportunity to work on interesting, yet challenging projects. Applying your thinking to build a better world founded on intelligent technologies alongside highly skilled and like-minded individuals.
- This will be an extremely varied position that’s all about problem-solving and finding the right technical solutions for your client. You will be given autonomy over your work so that you will have the opportunity to shape the projects you’re working on.
- We are a people-first business, which means people are at the heart of everything we do here. We offer our consultants a safe environment where knowledge sharing, and open communication is encouraged. Whether at one of the internal monthly events, such as Lunch & Learns, Tech Time, and internal competency meet-ups, or at one of our community groups, such as football, gaming, yoga, or wellbeing; we have strived to build a business where everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued.
Benefits package
- 27 days annual leave, rising each year to a total of 30 days (plus bank holidays)
- An annual training budget of £2,000
- Generous company pension
- Private healthcare with Vitality
- Season Ticket loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life insurance
- Income protection
Apply for this role
If you haven't had a response within two weeks, please assume that we won't be taking your application to the next stage on this occasion. We list all our roles on the Careers page so do keep checking the page in the coming months to see if anything else opens up.
