Brighton and Hove City Council is seeking a Digital Developer to join our team of Website developers. The focus of this role will be on our Drupal forms estate using the Webform modules built in Form Builder. These forms will integrate with our in-house developed application for managing all submissions. Configuring workflows within this application is a function this role would also become expert in.
This role is part of a highly skilled and busy digital and data team who are all committed to helping deliver successful outcomes for our digital and data programmes. These programmes are an important part of the Council’s Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) strategy. Additional funding has been made available to support our DDaT capabilities through innovative programmes such as Turbocharging Innovation and Turbocharging Systems, so we are seeking experienced and driven individuals to support our ambitions.
Contract type: This role is permanent
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Andy Broomfield by email
[email protected]
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who wants to be involved in innovative solution design. You’ll be part of the team supporting digital transformation that truly makes an impact.
As part of the council’s IT&D service and reporting into the Website Project Manager, the role sits within the Digital team alongside colleagues that develop and support platforms such as Drupal for our Corporate website CMS, Mendix for Rapid Application Development, and Boomi for enterprise integration. The Digital team (including a DevOps function) and the Data Solutions team work very closely together to develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain complex digital solutions.
The role will support the high demand around our corporate public-facing forms solution, including helping develop and maintain our design standards, core component management, and workflow configuration, with an emphasis on a user-centred design approach. Working very closely with Product Managers, you’d be instrumental in delivering a significant forms rationalisation project, a project to transition many non-standard forms to our corporate solution, migrating some digital transactions from our Mendix platform to Drupal, and delivering to a constant flow of new requirements.
In this role, you’ll need to have:
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A solid understanding of online form concepts
- Experience developing forms solutions;
- An appreciation of good UX;
- Be capable of working with both a visual development tool and configuration languages such as YAML
- A solid knowledge of web development and web standards, including Accessibility; and
- Experience of Agile development in a corporate environment.
This role primarily focuses on using the Form Builder application and the associated in-house built Contact Management application. Whilst not directly a role involving Drupal module development, an understanding of Drupal concepts such as site building and front-end development with semantic HTML, Twig templating, CSS and JavaScript would be an advantage.
Further details are available in the Job Description.
Working with us
IT and Digital teams are a diverse and talented group. You'll find us a very open and welcoming group of colleagues who encourage a respectful, supportive, and collaborative work ethic.
We completely endorse a flexible workplace, with our staff working full time, part-time, and compressed hours, to fit around care commitments and work life balance needs. The teams are currently working largely remotely, so you'll need experience of working with systems and people in this way. The successful applicant may work flexibly but may need to attend the office where service demands require it. Should working from home not be possible, safe office accommodation is available.
If this role interests you, we would love to hear from you.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.
We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Please note that this post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Criminal Records Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
