Responsibilities

• Advanced Web Auditing: Lead end-to-end technical site audits, identifying structural obstacles, rendering issues, and optimisation opportunities to enhance site usability, speed, and indexing efficiency. With experience with Apache configuration files (redirects) and knowledge of CLI (command-line interface) tools.
• Next-Gen Search Optimisation: Architect technical strategies tailored for modern search ecosystems, ensuring client websites are optimised for crawlability, accessibility, and content extraction across traditional search, AI summaries, and generative AI chat experiences.
• Semantic & Structural Design: Oversee structured data schema implementation, semantic HTML, site architecture, and rendering optimisation (client-side, server-side, dynamic rendering) to maximise machine understanding.
• Performance & Core Web Vitals: Oversee front-end web performance analysis, leveraging tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and WebPageTest to drive Core Web Vitals compliance.
• Actionable Ticketing: Translate complex technical audit findings into clear, digestible, developer-ready specifications and tickets (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps) that client engineering teams can seamlessly implement.
• Developer Advocacy: Work directly with client web developers, frontend engineers, and technical architects to communicate requirements, align on standards (W3C, WCAG), and validate implemented fixes.
• Front-End & Code Expertise: Apply strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to debug complex front-end SEO issues, client-side frameworks, and DOM manipulation challenges.
• Site Migrations: Serve as the senior lead on technically heavy projects, including site migrations, platform rebuilds, re-architectures, and international rollouts, protecting baseline traffic and mitigating operational risk.
• Technical Roadmapping: Formulate and manage robust technical roadmaps for key accounts, scoping accurate effort requirements and resource allocation.
• Escalation & Technical Resolution: Serve as the senior point of escalation for complex technical issues, indexing emergencies, or performance drops across the Organic client portfolio.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in Technical SEO within an agency environment.
• Expert knowledge of Technical SEO best practice, site migrations and web performance optimisation.
• Strong understanding of AI search, emerging search technologies and the evolving search landscape.
• Confident working with developers and translating technical recommendations into actionable solutions.
• Commercially minded with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and driving capability development across a business.

Benefits

• Sabbatical: Paid sabbatical at 7 years with an option to take it unpaid at 5 years
• 25 days holiday a year
• Discretionary annual performance based incentive
• Sale commission
• Recruitment referrals bonus
• Health & Wellbeing contribution
• 2 Recharge Days each holiday year
• Ride to Work scheme
• Railcard
• Season Ticket loan