Job Description:

New innovations and technologies are disrupting the business environment. Organizations that want to remain competitive must embrace innovation or risk being left behind. At EY, we help our clients solve large and complex end-to-end business transformation challenges through a combination of human-centred design thinking, business innovation and digital technology.

In Digital Engineering we shape, concept and build innovative solutions that address the most important issues and opportunities for our clients. Our consultants work in agile, cross-functional teams addressing some of most significant issues facing society today, such as transition to sustainable energy, digitisation of government, scaling high-growth businesses, exploiting the potential of AI, moving to a post-Covid world and improving wellness with digital healthcare.

The core capabilities of our team include:

Digital strategy, horizon scanning, and strategic planning. Working in combined teams with Business Designers, Researchers, Strategists, Industry and Functional Specialists, we develop a vision, roadmap and case for change to address fundamental issues facing our clients, such as “how can we grow?”, “how do we respond to disruption?” and “what can we do next?”

Digital technology delivery management. Using principles of lean start-up and agile, we manage large-scale delivery programmes that include custom software and SaaS solutions, using an ecosystem of EY, client and partner agency resources. We have a range of skills across programme management, solution architecture, product management, business analysis and delivery management,

Digital software engineering. Many of our solutions involve custom engineering of unique solutions and experiences created from modern web-scale technologies, such as HTML5, JavaScript, Micro-Services, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

As a technology specialist, EY offers you the opportunity to apply your skills in a highly strategic context, working on meaningful and impactful solutions that build a better working world. EY is a leader in Business Transformation services and the Digital Engineering team is a rapidly growing to enable us to deliver more of our technology work without needing to rely on ecosystem partners. This is an exciting time and new joiners will have many opportunities to make their mark on the business and accelerate their personal and professional growth.

The opportunity

As a Frontend Developer you will design and deliver user interfaces for market-facing and digitally enabled product for our clients.

Working within cross-functional teams, you will be responsible for designing and building software that is stable, performant, secure and accessible to meet users’ needs. You will apply appropriate technologies, UX patterns and best practices to deliver innovative frontend engineering solutions to achieve measurable results for our client.

You will help to shape and build our digital and software engineering capabilities by contributing to a range of practice development initiatives.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop functional and appealing web- and mobile-based applications based on usability

• Use agreed standards and specifications to design, create, test and document new user interfaces or to make changes to existing ones

• Take a modern approach to development, testing and automation of processes

• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of prototyping interface designs and technical approaches at different fidelities and in different media, including paper and code

• Advocate for making the frontend as accessible as possible. Can test components and pages against accessibility standards and fix accessibility issues identified through testing

• Apply technical knowledge and expertise to turn prototypes into technical designs

• Integrate and test user interface components and systems to create operational services and products

• Collaborate with user researcher and product teams to understand users’ needs and take these into consideration when making decisions to solve frontend engineering challenges

Skills and attributes for success

• Agile mindset and an advocate and practitioner of XP practices

• Balance the trade-offs of delivering sustainable code that provides an excellent customer experience

• Be open-minded and happy to explore and learn new technologies and promote best practice

• Ability to have productive conversations with both business and technical audiences

• Commitment to continuous improvement and a drive to better the software development profession

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelors and / or master’s degree in technology subject areas (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering) or relevant experience

• 2+ years’ experience in software development as a frontend developer working across the full product/ software lifecycle (design, implementation, testing)

• An understanding of accessibility standards and ability to create user interfaces that conform to them

• Experience using modern web frameworks (e.g. React), iOS and android mobile application development SDK

• Experience of writing HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery and similar frontend development SDK/frameworks

• Worked with distributed version control tools (e.g. Git, GitHub) and SEO experience

• Experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming skills and automated testing frameworks

• Experience working in an agile environment, where agile and/or lean practices and approaches are applied as a way of working to deliver technology products

• Excellent communication skills and ability to produce high-quality written deliverables in fluent English

• A willingness to travel and work in client sites, both in the UK and overseas as and when required

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2021 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

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