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Job Description

Resource Innovations is seeking a Senior Web Developer to join our growing team in Information Technology. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Web Developer with a strong background in Comprehensive Web Design and Management to join our dynamic team.

As a Senior Web Developer you will provide technical ownership from requirements discovery through production support and retirement. Senior Web Developer works closely with business stakeholders, product and content owners, user-experience professionals, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure teams, enterprise architecture, and external service providers.

This position is defined by engineering capability and operating discipline rather than allegiance to a particular product or vendor. The successful candidate applies durable engineering principles, follows defined processes and procedures, learns unfamiliar technologies quickly, and selects tools according to documented business and technical requirements.

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we're leading the charge to power change.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Web Engineering & Application Ownership
• Own the lifecycle of web applications, websites, CMS platforms, APIs, and integrations from requirements through retirement.
• Translate business, marketing, content, and UX requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Design, develop, configure, customize, and support web applications and digital platforms.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, architectures, hosting models, and implementation approaches based on business requirements and long-term supportability.
• Ensure solutions meet accessibility, security, performance, reliability, and usability standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application, integration, hosting, identity, data, and production issues.
• Identify and remediate technical debt, unsupported technologies, and operational risks.
• Define and maintain technical standards, architecture patterns, and development best practices.
• Support application modernization, platform optimization, upgrades, and migrations.
• Maintain accountability for overall application health, stability, supportability, and continuous improvement.
• Business, Marketing & Stakeholder Partnership
• Serve as the primary technical partner for Marketing, Creative, UX, Account Management, business stakeholders, vendors, and clients.
• Participate in discovery sessions, workshops, design reviews, planning meetings, and technical consultations.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly recommendations and actionable guidance.
• Help stakeholders understand technical options, tradeoffs, costs, risks, and long-term implications of implementation decisions.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Creative teams to transform campaign concepts, designs, and user journeys into effective digital experiences.
• Ensure solutions align with brand standards, customer experience objectives, accessibility requirements, and business goals.
• Identify opportunities where technology can improve engagement, operational efficiency, analytics, or campaign performance.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and delivery impacts proactively.
• Document key decisions, assumptions, requirements, and action items to maintain stakeholder alignment.
• Foster productive working relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• Project Planning, Scoping & Delivery
• Evaluate project requests and define technical scope, requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
• Develop effort estimates, delivery timelines, resource requirements, and implementation plans.
• Contribute to project budgets, statements of work, and technical recommendations.
• Recommend phased delivery approaches and alternative solutions when budget, timeline, or resource constraints exist.
• Assess and communicate the impact of scope changes on cost, schedule, quality, and supportability.
• Distinguish between configuration, customization, integration, and custom development approaches and recommend the most appropriate solution.
• Define acceptance criteria, success measures, and implementation requirements.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, vendors, and external partners as needed.
• Balance multiple concurrent projects, enhancements, production support activities, and urgent requests.
• Drive projects through delivery while maintaining alignment with business objectives and organizational priorities.
• Effectively prioritize planned development work alongside quick-turn requests, production fixes, campaign deadlines, and emerging business needs.
• Development Operations & Engineering Excellence
• Follow and champion a disciplined Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and operational governance model.
• Adhere to established standards for architecture, coding, documentation, security, testing, release management, and change control.
• Utilize source-control best practices including branching strategies, versioning, peer review, and traceability.
• Implement and maintain automated build, testing, deployment, rollback, and validation processes where appropriate.
• Define and execute testing strategies covering functionality, performance, accessibility, security, and reliability.
• Produce documentation sufficient for support, maintenance, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and future enhancement efforts.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering standards and team practices.
• Perform root-cause analysis for production issues and implement durable corrective actions.
• Monitor application health, performance, and operational metrics to proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Promote a culture of quality, operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Governance, Accessibility, Security, and Quality - Required
• Develop and maintain applications in accordance with organizational architecture, privacy, records, security, accessibility, source-control, change, release, vulnerability-management, and lifecycle-governance requirements.
• Design, develop, test, and remediate web applications and digital content to conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA at minimum, and WCAG 2.2 Level AA or a later standard when adopted by organizational policy or required by applicable law, regulation, contract, or customer commitment.
• Maintain practical knowledge of applicable accessibility obligations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act; Section 508 where applicable; Colorado accessibility requirements for covered state and local government entities; California digital-accessibility requirements for covered state entities; and other requirements applicable to the organization's services and customers.
• Incorporate accessibility throughout the SDLC and implement semantic HTML, keyboard operation, visible and logical focus, accessible forms and validation, appropriate structure, text reflow, contrast, accessible media, and compatibility with representative assistive technologies.
• Use native semantic elements whenever possible and correctly apply ARIA roles, states, and properties only when native semantics are insufficient.
• Perform automated and manual accessibility testing, including keyboard-only testing and representative screen-reader testing; document and remediate failures as software defects.
• Assess accessibility of third-party components, plugins, themes, embedded content, and integrations before implementation; document risk and escalate material exceptions.
• Apply secure-development practices and recognized web-application security guidance, including protection against common vulnerability classes, secure authentication and session management, least privilege, safe secrets handling, dependency governance, and appropriate code and vulnerability scanning.
• Maintain traceability among business requirements, technical and accessibility requirements, code changes, reviews, tests, approvals, releases, and material exceptions where required by organizational process.
• Participate constructively in architecture review, security review, code review, change control, incident and problem management, post-incident review, and audit or compliance activities.
• Cloud, Infrastructure, and Service Boundaries
• The role is the workload owner for assigned web applications and a technical partner to cloud and infrastructure teams. It is not, by default, the owner of enterprise cloud landing zones, tenant administration, enterprise networking, infrastructure security architecture, or infrastructure operations. Hosting placement and transfer of operational responsibility are governed architecture and business decisions.
• Understand the operational implications of managed hosting, SaaS, PaaS, containers, serverless services, and traditional infrastructure without assuming that every workload should be brought in house.
• Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams on supported hosting patterns, identity, networking dependencies, DNS, TLS, secrets, managed data services, storage, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, availability, and cost controls.
• Design applications for secure configuration, telemetry, diagnostics, stateless or scalable operation where appropriate, recoverability, and controlled deployment.
• Own application code, application configuration, integrations, application security, accessibility, performance, application-level monitoring, and application lifecycle within the approved platform contract.
• Escalate platform-capability gaps and avoid creating unmanaged infrastruct