Frontend Architect

About this role:

The UI Architect should collaborate with other architects, and technology decision-makers to guide overall direction of the user interface layer of web applications and should work closely with technical leads, developers and management in a highly collaborative environment. Candidate must be a good team player. He/She should collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with delivery teams during both design and development phases to ensure adherence to UI architectural standards and best practices
• Partner with other Architects to continue to drive the development of a modern user interface layer
• Document standards and ensure they are effectively implemented by the development teams and understood by technology partners
• Design and develop proof of concept prototypes for advanced features and designs
• Provide technical guidance to both local and remote development teams as required
• Continuously evaluate, design and improve the software development and delivery processes
• Continuously evaluate design and improve the software development and delivery processes with a deep focus on mobile web performance optimization techniques
• Working with necessary stakeholders to develop and maintain a set of performance criteria for all development projects including memory leaks and profiling/snapshots
• Providing suggestions for improvement in Development or Testing practices to lead to increased performance of the application
• Provide technical oversight and perform code reviews for multiple development efforts
• Guide a team of developers to address the highest of the identified production concerns
• Work with the Product Management teams to understand customer performance expectations and to set testing criteria to meet or achieve these standards as future versions are released

Requirements:

• 7+ years’ experience in the design, development and use of component based UI architectures.
• Good understanding of ReactJS, micro-frontend implementation
• Good understanding of SEO
• Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs
• Proficient in code visioning tools
• Experience in developing and optimizing large scale Node.JS applications
• Demonstrable knowledge of large scale, JavaScript application architectures
• Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)
• A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimize web performance
• Knowledge of image authoring tools