Lead UI Developer (vue.js)

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:
· Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
· Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
· A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
· Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
· A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
· Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
· Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches sabbatical programs 1 month paid paternity leave 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
· More traditional benefits such as 25 days holiday a gym discount scheme online shopping discounts an Employee Assistance Program a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a UI Engineer at IBM you see the big picture able to imagine successful technology-driven solutions from start to finish. As a Full-Stack Application Developer you’ll help design develop and integrate solutions using best practice technologies tools techniques and products our clients demand today.

You’ll work with clients co-creating solutions to major real-world challenges by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. In your role you may be responsible for:
• Use IBM’s Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance security quality and stability.
• Work with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases (SQL Postgres DB2 MongoDB) operating systems (Linux Windows iOS Android) and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js AngularJS React.js Ember.js Bootstrap and JQuery).
• Work across the entire system architecture from backend to front end to design develop and support high quality and scalable products.
• Help maintain and improve code quality organization and automatization
• Create everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a complete minimally viable product

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Building User Interfaces (UI): Develop responsive accessible and visually appealing web applications using HTML CSS and JavaScript ensuring consistent user experiences across devices and browsers.
• Collaborating with Designers: Work closely with UI/UX designers to translate design mockups wireframes and prototypes into functional code maintaining design integrity.
• Optimizing Performance: Ensure optimal performance of web pages by minimizing load times and improving overall site responsiveness through techniques like lazy loading and code splitting.
• Ensuring Cross-Browser Compatibility: Test and debug applications across different browsers and devices to ensure compatibility and consistent functionality for all users.
• Implementing APIs: Integrate front-end applications with back-end services and APIs handling data display form submission and real-time interaction using frameworks like React Angular or Vue.js

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
N/A

As an equal opportunities’ employer we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However for you to be eligible for this role you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so.