JavaScript Job: Front End Developer

CGI, one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms globally, is at the forefront of transforming digital experiences. Through practical and strategic innovations, we are helping drive value and greater efficiencies into commercial and government organizations around the world. We are growing and are looking to establish a center of excellence to deliver the best in class service to our many different clients. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing complex software solutions for our client. You will work closely with a team of developers to understand business requirements and develop customized software solutions that meet the needs of the business.
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While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.
Your future duties and responsibilities
As a Front End Developer, you have a proven technical foundation, with focus on growing your development skills; you are able to deliver small to medium-sized well-defined tasks, working individually or pairing with others and you have a small amount of experience in a well-defined area:

• Collaborate with the other developers on the team to define and integrate REST APIs with the UI components
• Ensure high code quality through automated unit and functional testing
• Automate processes within the development pipeline; identify opportunities for efficiency gains and reducing time-to-market, and enabling continuous delivery
• Design and develop code structures based on technical design defined by the team
• Work within an Agile product team comprised of technical, product and business team members to deliver exceptional products
• You will actively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
• Good communication including the ability to distill technical details into human terms

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• 5+ years of experience with front-end development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as front-end frameworks such as Angular or React
• Advanced knowledge of front-end HTML/HTML5, JavaScript (including jQuery), XML and CSS
• Strong working knowledge of web development technologies such as ASP.NET, MVC, and Web API to build web-based applications.
• Knowledge of database technologies such as SQL Server or Oracle to design and implement data storage and retrieval mechanisms.
• Deep expertise with web-based application architectures and frameworks (including Angular or React) and the way it integrates with services
• Experience with code merging and branching methodologies using Git and code release process

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:

• Familiar with financial services operations and technology, including major platforms, technologies, applications, architectures, business models and internal structures
• Knowledge of developing distributed cloud applications (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Openshift, Docker)