We are looking for a passionate Digital Solutions Leader who can design and implement application architecture and own the application strategies and roadmap for a suite of systems or domain. The primary areas of focus are core development, design and direction of application architecture and alignment of architecture with business objectives and high-level company technology direction in helping clients envision and build a rich interactive, reliable and scalable digital ecosystem

The UI Architect will partner with other architects and technology decision-makers to guide overall direction of the user interface layer of the site and will work closely with Technical Leads, Application Architects, Software Developers and Management in a highly collaborative environment.

The candidate should have a proven track record of delivering to strategic business vision, enterprise level architecture strategies, and developing innovative enterprise IT enablement practices that create business value.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and collaboration: Confident leader who can facilitate discussions with business and IT stakeholders on best fit Ux design and technology enablement

Strategic Thinking: Ability to help us think creatively and design Ux feature sets that drive intuitive, personalized, and data driven experiences (“customers like you”, smart business classification, recommendation engines) based on VOA/VOC insights

Communication: Effective communication who can speak to business (executives and field folks) as well as IT.  Strong documentation (capability maps, architecture blueprints, roadmaps) and presentation skills as well

Insurance Domain: can be personal lines or commercial insurance but someone who is familiar with the value chain (distribution, sales, underwriting, policy admin, service, or claims) and omni channel (AMS, web, mobile, Comp Raters)  

Technologies: Web/Portal, DxP platforms, mobile, API’s, responsive design, SMS, Conversation AI/Chatbots, etc.

Digital Architecting: Develop Applications Target Architecture Blueprint, Transition Roadmap, High/Low Level Architecture design, Product Evaluations, Current Architecture evaluations, Solution Approach, Industry/Peer comparisons for several key Digital Engagements across channels.

• Identify right set of UI frameworks, UI libraries, layout and API interfaces


• Create technical architecture of UI framework


• Define standards and best practices


• Create POCs to evaluate tech stack, frameworks and approaches

Consulting: Be the change agent in the CIO/CTO/CMO space for several Fortune 500 clients by providing technology advisory services for strategic engagements and expanding further business growth by envisioning opportunities, Technical Point of Views, driving client discussions.

• Collaborate with clients, product management as well as UI team.


• Provide recommendations for technical architecture of UI portal framework along with pluggable modules.


• Recommend processes, services, software and other tools to support business objectives pertinent to user interfaces as well as infrastructure technologies


• Work closely with product managers, graphic designers plus usability experts to present compelling user experience.


• Ensure to guide process and technology adoption to assure appropriate QA testing of User Interfaces application.

Reusable Assets/Automation: Continuously working towards building reusable enterprise/business line level components, identifying process automation opportunities and incubating/institutionalizing DevOps.

New Technology Explorations:  Lead incubation, exploration & evaluation of new frameworks, technology and Proof Of Concepts that include Web Components, Cloud Migration, DevOps, Predictive Analytics, IOT, AR/VR etc.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

• 14+ years’ experience in the design, development and use of component based UI architectures. Additional consideration for experience working with high volume eCommerce websites


• Lead and direct UI software engineers and graphic designers and demonstrable knowledge of large scale, JavaScript application architectures


• Expert level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model


• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in React JS, Redux / Angular, Advanced JavaScript, ES6/TypeScript,


• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap / foundation UI / Material UI, REST, Jest / Enzyme / Chai / Mocha, SSR (Next JS), GraphQL


• Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)


• A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimize web performance


• Advanced knowledge of build systems such as Grunt/Gulp/ etc, including Linting, Compiling, Minifying, etc


• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure consistency in architecture and design/code practice


• Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs


• In depth understanding of agile development methodologies


• Experience delivering large programs in a complete agile model


• Work closely with next generation architecture development teams using cutting edge approaches and technologies.


• Work on new tools in leading industry trends, with new and emerging technologies, prototypes and engineering process improvements

DESIRED SKILLS

Knowledge and experience in the below domains

• Mobile technologies (Hybrid and Native Apps)


• SalesForce / Sitecore


• Knowledge of AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure/AEM


• Understanding of Jenkins and other Pipeline Automation related technologies


• Understanding of TeamCity / Octopus