About this role
MUFG Pension & Market Services is a global, digitally enabled business that empowers a brighter future by connecting millions of people with their assets – safely, securely and responsibly.
Through our two businesses MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets, we partner with a diversified portfolio of global clients to provide robust, efficient and scalable services, purpose-built solutions and modern technology platforms that deliver world class outcomes and experiences.
A member of MUFG, a global financial group, we help manage regulatory complexity, improve data management and connect people with their assets, through exceptional user experience that leverages the expertise of our people combined with scalable technology, digital connectivity and data insights.
Overview
The Senior Developer, Sitecore, serves as a key technical lead within project teams, bridging the gap between development and technical leadership. The role is responsible for taking ownership of project delivery, particularly for medium to large-scale engagements involving multiple team members, while contributing hands-on to development activities. The incumbent provides technical guidance, resolves complex challenges, supports team members in overcoming delivery blockers, and ensures the successful execution of project objectives. Acting as a primary point of contact for technical and delivery-related matters, the role helps drive efficient project outcomes, fosters collaboration, and enables the team to effectively manage multiple priorities and stakeholder requirements.
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities
Strategic Focus
• Provide technical expertise and support to senior team members in the successful delivery of projects. • Contribute to project delivery by applying technical skills, resolving challenges, and removing blockers. • Analyse, design, and document technical solutions in accordance with project requirements and best practices. • Demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement by enhancing both technical expertise and business knowledge.
Operational Management
• Responsible for developing high-quality, rapid-to-market IT solutions within an Agile environment. • Generate innovative solutions to problems and identify opportunities to improve business services and processes. • Collaborate with team members, systems analysts, testers, and delivery managers to deliver high-quality software solutions. • Develop code and perform unit testing in accordance with specifications and quality standards. • Perform defect triage and manage issues through to technical resolution. • Actively participate in daily stand-up meetings and other Agile ceremonies. • Take ownership of code management within the team and ensure the effective use of source control systems and practices. • Collaborate with DevOps teams to support and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes. • The above key accountabilities are not exhaustive and may be amended from time to time to meet evolving business requirements. As this role forms part of a global team, occasional travel and flexibility in working hours may be required.
People Leadership
• Provide hands-on, expert-level technical guidance and support to developers to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality solutions. • Coach, mentor, and support junior developers and configurators, taking ownership of their ongoing technical development on Sitecore projects. • Review and provide oversight of team deliverables across all project phases, including Planning, Analysis, Design, Build, and Testing, to ensure adherence to quality standards and project objectives.
Governance & Risk
• Review code to ensure compliance with established coding standards, information security (InfoSec) principles, and organisational best practices. • Ensure all assigned work is delivered within agreed timelines and quality standards, while meeting stakeholder expectations and project objectives.
Experience & Personal Attributes
Experience
• 7+ Years of overall software Development experience with minimum 6 years of Sitecore development Experience. • Design & develop enterprise-scale solutions using Sitecore 10, Sitecore XM Cloud, Sitecore JSS, and Headless architecture, leveraging both custom development and out-of-the-box Sitecore capabilities. • Develop and customize Sitecore components, templates, pipelines, workflows, APIs, and Sitecore extensions while implementing best practices for content management, personalization, and authoring experiences. • Design and integrate REST APIs and message-queue-based solutions, with a strong understanding of dependency injection (DI), inversion of control (IoC), and service-oriented architectures. • Perform performance tuning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis of complex application issues, including assembly inspection/decomplication, load testing, and optimization of Sitecore and .NET applications. • Apply software engineering best practices, including SOLID principles, design patterns, refactoring techniques, code reviews, and architectural governance standards. • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define technical solutions, and ensure successful end-to-end delivery of applications. • Manage source code and deployment processes using Git, branching strategies, merge methodologies, CI/CD pipelines. • Act as a Sitecore Senior Developer by providing technical leadership, mentoring team members, driving best practices, and owning application delivery and support. • Sitecore Certified Professional Developer (Sitecore 10) is preferable; Sitecore XM Cloud, Sitecore JSS/Headless, Microsoft Azure (AZ-204/AZ-305), Azure DevOps (AZ-400) is an added advantage.
Personal Attributes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly and effectively. • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and time management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting capabilities. • Highly adaptable and quick to learn, with the ability to rapidly acquire new business knowledge and operate effectively within complex and evolving environments.