Senior Web Developer, Applications Developer

Job Title: Senior Web Developer
Clearance Required: Public Trust
Work Location: Remote; Silver Spring, MD

 Alpha Omega is seeking a qualified developer who will serve as the primary front-end designer with major responsibilities to build and develop websites, work and collaborate with stakeholders, and multiple IT teams to ensure project success.
Web development work focused on enhancing customer experience, usability, and performance of and implementing the migration of local historical NOAA websites by implementing best practice UX/UI design, interpreting and displaying scientific information for a wide audience, and improving technical aspects of site performance through cloud migration using primarily the migration to the cloud-primarily using WordPress

Key Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable websites using WordPress.
• Write efficient code and maintain code quality, organization, documentation, and automatization
• Create websites using standard HTML/CSS best practices
• Work with peer web designers and stakeholders to gather requirements, meet project deliverables and milestones to produce quality websites
• Work with IT security staff and communications professionals to meet yearly web certifications and implement security updates as required
• Provide regular communication with stakeholders and colleagues to develop and deploy requested content – ensuring there is a clear establishment of what can be created within a specified timeframe
• Consult with stakeholders and communications professionals to determine the scope of content, integrate new features as requested, provide recommendations based on performance metrics, and ensure branding compliance for front-facing websites.
• Research different software programs and maintain software documentation
• Improve website user experience through Human Centered Design (HCD) and analytics-informed performance enhancements
• Build and maintain a stock content library and NOAA-compliant web style guide to be used for front-facing websites.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these issues
• Provide analytics-based performance reports to identify performance and usability issues and make recommendations for improvement.
• Provide content management training to NOAA staff on an as-needed basis.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience/Skills:
  • 5+ years of experience in web development using WordPress
  •  3+ years’ experience directly supporting stakeholders in requirements gathering, design, and coordination
  • Proficient with WordPress, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript
  • Experience with cloud technologies, cloud-based website development, and local > cloud website migration.
  • Familiarity with Google and Bing search and site performance tools such as Bing Search, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Pagespeed Insights, and Google Tag Manager
  • Proficient with graphic design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of OAR lab and line office scientific activities, OAR & NOAA strategic goals, and NOAA science and technology focus areas
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git Hub)
• Familiar with Visual Studio 2016
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, experience with older versions accepted

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $61,000- $105,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

Application Deadline: March 23,2025

Joining the Alpha Omega team entitles you to participate in all retirement benefits, plans of deferred compensation, health and insurance benefits, and other such benefits as set forth in the company’s policy and benefits manuals. See below, to name a few:

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage un