Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer - Norwich

Project Freelance; Norwich; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx-Conseil in Norwich is seeking a Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer with 3–5 years of experience in Liferay and Java to lead a Liferay DXP upgrade project.

You will shape migration strategy, develop portlet migrations, and create templates to display migrated content, plus perform knowledge transfer on deployment, workstation setup, dependency management and CI. The role is a 6-month contract based in Norwich.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on Liferay DXP and Java experience.
• Experience with Liferay 6.2 and upgrades.
• Ability to contribute to architecture and migration planning.
• Knowledge transfer and training on best practices.

Responsibilities

• Participate in upgrade of Liferay DXP.
• Contribute to discussions on hooks migration to DXP.
• Define strategy for content migration and structure.
• Develop migration scripts and templates.
• Provide knowledge transfer and training on deployment, CI, and environments.

Skills

Liferay DXP

Java

Job description

Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer

We urgently require a Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer with at least 3 to 5 years expertise of working Liferay and Java.

The project involves a Liferay DXP Upgrade.

You will be involved in the technical discussions to how best to change current hooks in 6.2 in a way that can easily be migrated to Liferay DXP.

There will also be some technical consultancy required to define strategy and approach for content migration and content structure.

The following are some elements of what will be required:

• script to migrate snippet portlet preferences to Liferay Content
• template to display the migrated contentvia Liferay content portlet
• automatic replacement of the existing snippet portlet with a Liferay content portlet displaying appropriate content.

Additionally part of the project will contain department knowledge transfer and training on best practise use of Liferay DXP to include:

• Deployment
• workstation/developer environment setup
• dependency management
• continuous integration

This is a 6 month contract assignment.

Will be based in Norwich.