Technical Lead / Frontend Development Lead

About the role

VML Enterprise Solutions (part of WPP) is seeking a Technical Lead / Frontend Development Lead for its India professional services team in Noida, India, working in a hybrid model. The role focuses on developing and implementing customer web platforms using front-end technologies, defining scope, timelines, and technical solutions, and leading end-to-end delivery. Day-to-day work includes leading discovery sessions, workshops, client communication, mentoring developers, and ensuring adherence to best practices.

What you’ll do

• Participate in Discovery sessions to identify business priorities and expectations of authoring experience in CMS
• Lead workshops between creative, content teams, and development teams in relation to template and component identification and requirements, and governance strategy between development and authoring t
• Collaborate and work closely with customer and manage expectations, ensure clear communication, define scope, agree on timelines and manage client dependencies
• Gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Lead story/task grooming sessions and evaluate the dependencies and prerequisites for the tasks
• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code
• Review PRs and manage quality of development, coach and mentor team on development skills and ensure adherence to best practices
• Support client content team on platform usage, guidance and support

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a globally dispersed scrum team
• Demonstrated experience in Agile methodologies
• Collaboration and engagement skills
• Experience working with Communications and/or Marketing teams and/or Design Agencies
• Experience in leading a project team
• Experience in working directly with customer

Nice to have

• Experience with any known CMS with functional knowledge of template editor and content author roles
• Expertise in responsive design and mobile application design
• Expertise in front-end development, especially JAM stack
• In depth knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 (Less, Sass is a plus), knowledge of BEM methodology is preferred
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Detailed knowledge of JavaScript (ES6 is a plus)
• Experience with Atomic design paradigm is a plus
• Expertise in Design systems, Style guides, Pattern libraries

Skills