Senior Front-End Web Developer
Role Description
We are looking for a Senior Front-End Web Developer to join the Web Team within the Communications Department at Queen Mary University of London. The Senior Front-end Web Developer will work with the Head of Web Development, to understand and plan for strategic institutional and team goals. You'll be responsible for leading the technical and user interface (UI) development, and maintenance of Queen Mary's website and related web presence, supporting the university to achieve student recruitment and marketing goals. You'll work with the Website Product Manager to ensure key strategic teamwork is planned and executed effectively across the team using an agile approach.
About You
Your skills and experience have driven impactful changes in your career, particularly within the public sector, charities, NGOs, or education. You'll be versed in solving technical issues, delivering design and implementation products and collaborating with non-technical or multidisciplinary teams. By joining our in-house web team, you will have the opportunity to showcase your excellent teamwork skills and work collaboratively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders. You'll help bring best practices and innovation to Queen Mary, driving positive change and excellence in our digital initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery of university-wide digital design, web development, support, and end-user training programmes.
- Work with the Head of Web Development to define and implement web development strategies aligned to institutional goals.
- Design, develop and maintain high-quality, accessible, and standards-compliant web solutions across Queen Mary's web presence.
- Capture and analyse user requirements and website analytics to inform continuous improvement and user-centred design.
- Provide functional and technical leadership for website management across the University, setting standards for excellence.
- Integrate third-party systems and APIs to enhance functionality and streamline web development processes.
- Coach, guide and support junior team members to maintain high technical standards and team effectiveness.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of technical projects and ensure lessons learned and best practice are embedded in future work.
About the department
You will join a forward-thinking solution-focused Web team within the External Relations Directorate. Our directorate is responsible for raising the awareness and reputation of Queen Mary among its target audiences, and for increasing the quality and quantity of Queen Mary applicants. We collaborate with stakeholders, we support staff, students and prospective students to achieve more.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we've fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it's simply 'the right thing to do' but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.
Queen Mary's commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.