Front-End and Power Platform Developer

Location: London – Bedford Square

Reports to: Head of Digital Platform

Hours of work: Full time; 35 Hours, Monday – Friday; 10am – 6pm

The AA is an independent architectural school and an international cultural institution that serves as a forum for ideas. Being a major Centre for debate, the AA offers an unparalleled public programme of lectures, symposia, and

exhibitions, together with accompanying publications.

The Architectural Association was founded in 1847, opening as a day school in 1901. The AA is committed to public benefit attained by the learning, teaching, discussion and promotion of architecture. The School is recognised as a

worldwide leader in architectural education, with graduates that include many of the world’s leading architects, scholars, critics and educators. The academic and professional programmes of study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, up to and including doctoral level, are validated by external professional and academic bodies.

The AA campus is located in historic 18th century Bedford Square in London with a 350 acre woodland setting in Hooke Park in Dorset. The AA has an annual revenue of £18 million, a student body of 1000 students, 200 faculty, 90 staff, 6,500

members and thousands of visitors that come to engage with the most relevant debates in architecture today.

Role Overview:

As our Front-End and Power Platform Developer you will play a key role in enabling the AA to fully gain the maximum benefit from our data and content management system back-ends, creating and maintaining excellent user experiences through interfaces, layouts and interactions built to AA designs and style guidelines. Your work will be key to ensuring that a rich range of data and content can be experienced and interacted with by users through web pages which reflect AA design whilst also meeting high standards of usability and accessibility.

You will collaborate closely with our Design Studio and IT team (especially their ‘Database and Power Platform Developer’) to ensure that not only are our web pages accessible, stylish and fitting to our designs, but that they are integrated effectively with our underlying data and systems. You will develop existing and new Power Platform based web pages (primarily using Power Portals and Power Pages) which integrate with Dynamics 365 and our Microsoft Dataverse, but also pages and website front-ends which largely use API-based Content Management Systems and ReactJS.

The post is based in the small Digital Platforms team which holds responsibility for the development, management and maintenance of the school’s websites and several internal digital administration systems. Under the management of the Head of Digital

Platforms you will work collaboratively within the team’s ‘agile’ approach to workflow alongside permanent and consultant full stack web developers. An open and positive team player, you will communicate effectively not just within the team but also with other colleagues and stakeholders to ensure that your development work meets considered and exhaustive requirements.

What we offer:

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, including up to 40 days’ leave per annum, in addition to Bank Holiday, a defined pension scheme, season ticket loans and access to professional development opportunities.

You will also be able to take part and be involved in a creative and unique teaching environment, where the students display their amazing work with various on-site exhibitions, public programmes and lectures.

Our Bedford Square campus is based just a 5-minute walk from Tottenham Court Road station, right in the heart of Central London.

How to Apply:

Please email the below documents to recruitment@aaschool.ac.uk (via the ‘Apply’ button above) by the closing date of Monday 20^th January 2025 stating the job title in the subject heading.

• AA Application Form
• Cover Letter / Email highlighting why you feel you are the right person for the role. This should be no more than two-pages
• Full CV

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interviews will be held the week commencing on 27^th January 2025.

Informal enquires should be addressed to recruitment@aaschool.ac.uk or 02078874110.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. Reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Please note that it will not be possible for the AA School to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for successful candidates. Therefore, the appointed candidate will need to be eligible to work in the UK for the duration of their employment with the AA School, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

Thank you for your interest in the AA and this role.