Company overview

Kellett Communications is a northern-owned advertising agency with offices in Yellowknife and Whitehorse (established in 1998). We are dedicated to providing clients strategic marketing communications and focused on helping northern businesses thrive. Our team of writers, designers, developers and planners bring experience gained from all around the world to the North, resulting in a truly unique team of creative explorers.

Scope of Position

The Senior Website Developeris responsible for determining and developing the look and feel for websites including site navigation design and visual execution. The Senior Website Developer uses a variety of languages or tools during project development.

Core Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and assumes overall accountability for a successful implementation phase on all client projects.

Oversees employee, freelance or partner web developers, ensuring technical solutions are properly specified and architected, reviewing code for quality assurance purposes.

Support projects from inception through beta testing and final product delivery, planning architecture, layout, solutions provided, scoping projects, estimating hours, reviewing all materials, including checking all estimates and specifications.

Identify, communicate, and overcome development problems and creative challenges related to complex web and application-based projects.

Collaborate with artistic and creative directors, creative teams and web designers throughout projects, in support of creative process.

Keep current with programming languages/platforms within the web development/web application, and desktop application space.

Provide tactical application mentorship to other developers and act as a go-to person within technical areas of expertise.

Responsible for various aspects of ongoing support and maintenance contracts or engagements.

Partners with account managers and other web developers to successfully manage client relationships.

Turns design and user interface mock-ups into functional websites.

In a hands-on fashion, ensures all technology solutions are properly architected and specified.

Ensures HTML/CSS is cross-browser and standards compliant and meets accessibility requirements.

Integrates websites with existing applications or third-party/open-source platforms.