JOB DESCRIPTION:

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:

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


• 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.


• 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.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 10+ 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 in Javascript, ES6/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap OR foundation UI, REST,SSR (Next JS) and GraphQL


• Strong knowledge on any of the Javascript frameworks Angular/React/Vue


• Advanced knowledge of unit testing frameworks Jest, Enzyme and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD).


• Experience in developing and optimizing large scale JS applications and integration with AEM/CMS platforms.


• 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.


• Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs.


• In depth understanding of agile development methodologies.


• Experience delivering large programs in a complete agile model

Technical Skills

* Proficiency Legends