The LCMS Mission
"In grateful response to God's grace and empowered by the Holy Spirit through Word and Sacraments, the mission of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is vigorously to make known the love of Christ by word and deed within our churches, communities, and world."

Department Profile

• LCMS Communications is responsible for informing, reporting, and interpreting, in consultation with applicable officers and boards, the Synod's purpose, program and positions to its members and for promoting an increased understanding of the same to the public.

Reporting Relationships

• Reports to the Director of Web Services

Essential Job Functions

• This position is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing the new LCMS website platform, including forms, workflows, and integrations.
• Builds, tests, and deploys components for the new LCMS website platform.
• Develops forms, workflows, and digital tools.
• Implement integrations between the CMS, Salesforce, and other systems.
• Ensures code quality, security, and accessibility.
• Collaborate with Communications on content needs.
• Works with IT on creating and maintaining stable and secure environments.
• Create documentation.
• Supports debugging, maintenance, and updates.

Education and Experience

• Active member of an LCMS congregation preferred, but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Mid-level to senior engineering experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience building modern websites or web applications.
• Five years or more experience in web development.
• Two years or more experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP
• One year or more experience with in Drupal development.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

• Familiarity with API integrations
• Understanding integrations with CRMs.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Ability to collaborate with mixed teams.
• Commitment to accessibility, security, and performance.

Supervisory Responsibility

• None