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Role: Website Developer

Duration: 3+ Months

Location: Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE – Note: candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered

Job Description:

Redesigning our agency’s intranet site is crucial to have a fully functioning website that shows the important services we offer to our employees. We want to improve communication to the staff and provide clarity on the services we offer. Our intranet website has not undergone any redesign for many years and needs to be updated with new functionality and advanced features. Getting a full-time dedicated resource who can work to re-brand our site and add newer functionality is crucial

Job Overview:

The existing site is written using a content management system called Umbraco. We would like to totally revamp the site using Umbraco as the platform.

Candidate must be proficient in the most current version of Umbraco, SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Dreamweaver. Knowledge of MS Visual Studio and MVC is helpful. Good communication (and writing) skills, and the ability to serve as a liaison between the IT Department and its business users. Prior experience with Web design, databases, application development and coding is required

Responsibilities include:

Redesign

Navigation Updates

Information Architecture: Review and changes to site structure

Page Layout: Update to page templates including main home page, category landing pages, article pages and other pages

Visual Design: Modernization of overall look and feel

Content: Migration of content from old site to new

Technology Upgrade

System Audit:

Review all Document Types and identify custom data types.

Review installed packages to identify migration path.

Review macros and identify migration path

CMS Upgrade: Upgrade of existing website developed in Umbraco 4.7.1 version to the latest Umbraco 7.9.2 version

We foresee a running upgrade in phases:

From 4.7 to the last 4.x release (4.11)

From last 4.x to 6

From 6 to 7

Project mission and scope

Overarching business goals

Legal, regulatory and privacy issues

Technological rules and restrictions

Production and Technical Specifications

Copy and Content Document

Umbraco CMS configuration and development

Content migration/population

Website Developer (1)

Most current version of Umbraco
HTML + CSS Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Visual Studio C# SQL Server Adobe Dreamweaver JavaScript
MVC
We require a staging and production environment.
We need knowledge transfer and technical documentation upon completion of the project.
We would require user and technical support for the site.
Timeframe for completion of this project will be June 30, 2018, however we must complete prior to this date to ensure adequate time for user acceptance testing.

Excellent communications skills

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE: –

Website Developer (1)