Senior Web Developer and Designer

Overview :

The Senior Web Developer & Designer owns the end-to-end design, development, and ongoing optimization of company websites and digital experiences. This role blends creative direction with hands-on engineering across the stack, with deep expertise in WordPress architecture and theming. The ideal candidate pairs strong visual design sensibilities with production-grade coding, modern performance and accessibility standards, and a proactive use of AI to speed delivery and quality. You will partner closely with Marketing to ensure brand aesthetic, voice, and experience are cohesive and consistent across all channels.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack web builds with WordPress as the primary CMS, including custom themes, child themes, and plugins, Advanced Custom Fields or block-based editing, and integration with first- and third-party services.
• Design and implement page layouts, component libraries, and patterns in Figma or similar tools and code, maintaining a scalable design system that supports rapid iteration.
• Build performant, responsive, and accessible front-end experiences using modern HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React where appropriate for headless or hybrid architectures.
• Develop secure, maintainable back-end features in PHP 8+, manage MySQL schemas and queries, configure REST and GraphQL endpoints, and integrate marketing and analytics platforms including Marketo, GA4, and tag managers.
• Optimize Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores through code splitting, image optimization, critical CSS, caching, CDNs, and server-side performance tuning.
• Implement SEO technical fundamentals including structured data, semantic HTML, sitemaps, redirects, canonicalization, and crawl budget hygiene.
• Ensure WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility compliance and cross-browser, cross-device quality through automated and manual testing.
• Set up and maintain CI / CD pipelines, environments, where appropriate; manage code reviews, branching, and releases with Git.
• Harden security using least-privilege roles, secret management, WAF / CDN rules, and OWASP Top 10 mitigations; maintain reliable backup and rollback strategies.
• Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate ideation, wireframing, content generation, asset production, and QA; evaluate and integrate AI features such as on-site search, chat, and personalization when relevant.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into roadmaps, user stories, and acceptance criteria; communicate progress, trade-offs, and timelines clearly.
• Define analytics and experimentation frameworks, implement event tracking, and run A / B tests to improve conversion and user experience.
• Maintain site appearance and editorial velocity by enforcing content and display standards, templates, and governance in the CMS.
• Stay current with modern web techniques, security updates, and design trends; recommend pragmatic upgrades to tooling and stack.
• Maintains compliance with Inovalon's policies, procedures and mission statement.
• Adheres to all confidentiality and HIPAA requirements as outlined within Inovalon's Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the undertaking of the position.
• Fulfills those responsibilities and / or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Company.

Job Requirements

Nice to Have

Education

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