Information Systems Specialist Digital Web Developer

Overview

In this role you will develop, maintain and enhance Drupal-based websites and digital services to enable easy access, transactions, and interactions with council services. You’ll work within a multidisciplinary Digital Services team to deliver accessible, secure, user-centred experiences that support the council’s digital transformation. You will shape customer journeys, improve website functionality, and contribute to digital products that improve outcomes. This is a collaborative, impact‑driven opportunity within a forward‑looking public sector digital agenda.

Pay / Benefits

• generous holiday entitlement
• flexible working opportunities
• reduced hour contracts
• job share options
• opportunity for guaranteed interview in certain schemes
• support for safeguarding checks

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enhance Drupal websites and digital services
• Write clean, secure, maintainable code following development standards
• Create reusable components, templates and functionality for consistent digital services
• Build integrations with internal and external systems using APIs and other technologies
• Troubleshoot defects, performance issues and technical problems across websites and applications
• Contribute to testing and quality assurance activities
• Support accessibility, usability, performance and security improvements
• Collaborate with content specialists, UX researchers and stakeholders to understand user needs and deliver solutions
• Participate in technical discussions, service improvements and continuous development
• Provide technical advice and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team

Key requirements

• Experience developing and maintaining websites using Drupal or equivalent CMS
• Strong PHP (Twig) development skills with clean, well-documented code
• Experience developing custom Drupal modules, themes and site functionality
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and modern front-end practices
• Experience using Git and GitHub for source control
• Understanding of web accessibility standards and inclusive design
• Knowledge of testing approaches and QA processes
• Experience working with REST APIs, system integrations and containerised environments (Docker or DDEV)
• Understanding of website performance optimisation, analytics and SEO
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues and work in multidisciplinary teams

• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Problem solving
• Drupal development
• PHP (Twig)
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery

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