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MAGENTO 2 | NEW ROLE | PROJECT LEAD
Hybrid | Sheffield | Close to M1 links
Are you ready for a new and exciting opportunity in 2025?
Major IT & Digital have partnered with one of the UKs leading wholesale and retail distribution businesses based in the heart of steel city of Sheffield.
This is a brand new opportunity to lead on new design and build projects working within a Magento 2 environment including both frontend and backend development.
Working for a well-established family business and IT development team with over 40 years industry experience which includes expansion plans internationally. The company achieved 16% growth last year with plans to hit the £200m mark in 2026.
You will be joining a diverse and skilled team of IT professionals to lead on the Magento 2 projects for my clients online stores and international brand partners and to support both the IT Director and Head of eCommerce in delivering scalable and effective Magento 2 platforms in a full stack and testing capacity.
This is a new role!
You will be joining a mixed team of 17 professional software developers, including Junior, Senior and Lead level on the ecommerce team, front end designers, BI analysts and technical support staff to drive you forward with SDLC and stakeholder management.
This is a new role and will require someone with extensive Magento 2 experience to lead of projects and drive the business values on delivering quality code with a strong focus on meeting customer requirements.
This would ideally suit someone from a agency background or similar industry exposure looking for that next step in their career to add value and contribute at a senior level and also happy to be involved in the full architecture and design (start to end process).
Due to these exciting fast-paced projects and hands on nature of the work involved this will require an onsite presence with 2 days working in the Sheffield office. This will give you the opportunity to contribute to the wider business successes planned over the next 12-18 months.
Heres the techy stuff
Degree educated preferred although someone with extensive Magento 2 experience is more highly desired
Magento development and customisation knowledge of design and development with an ability to implement custom modules and optimise code for performance and scalability
Frontend development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript including modern frameworks
Backend development using MySQL and API integration
Knowledge of performance optimisation and implement Magento best practices
Continuous development, bug fixes including version upgrades
Ability to set up frameworks for continuous testing, perform cross-browser and device testing to ensure compatibility for robust frontend and backend operations
Whats in it for me?
Project lead - exciting development opportunity
Competitive salary
25 days holiday (plus 8 public)
4% employer pension contributions
Great team culture
Training and wellbeing programme (healthcare plan)
3 days working from home
Free on-site car parking
Staff discounts
Interested in finding out more?
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