Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer - Reading

Project Freelance; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx-Conseil in Reading seeks a Senior Liferay DXP Software Developer with 3–5 years of hands-on Liferay and Java experience to lead a Liferay DXP upgrade and related migrations. You’ll influence technical discussions on how to adapt current hooks in 6.2 for smooth migration to DXP and contribute to strategy for content migration.

The role covers deployment, workstation setup, dependency management and CI, with a 6-month contract based in Reading.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on Liferay DXP and Java development experience.
• Experience with Liferay 6.2 hooks and migrations.
• Ability to contribute to content migration strategy and content structure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and upgrade Liferay DXP components and portlets.
• Design migration scripts and templates for content portlets.
• Collaborate on deployment, CI, and environment setup.
• Provide knowledge transfer and training on best practices.

Skills

Liferay

Java

Software Development

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 Reading.