Principal UI Architect

Company: Buildit / Wipro Digital
Location: New York
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

buildit is a specialist software engineering and consulting organization within Wipro Digital. Our core charter is to help our enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformation programs through our velocity--- consulting practice or rescue at-risk and complex software engineering engagements with targeted interventions. In addition, our global co-innovation studios are designed to deliver end-to-end design, co-creation, professional education and rapid product development.-- What we do:

• Velocity Consulting:--Targeted intervention to solve highly complex engineering problems or rescue at-risk engagements by small group of experts
• Co-creation Studios:--Ideation, design, training, engineering to product development
• Professional Education:--High-impact training courses taught by practitioners (Agile, and Lean methodologies) We are looking for a Principal UI Architect [full stack engineer] to add to our specialist velocity consulting team to help our enterprise customers transforming their business. What you will do: Design and implement application architecture and own the application strategies and roadmap for a suite of enterprise application systems. The primary areas of focus are core development, design and direction of application architecture and alignment of architecture with business objectives to deliver business outcome. The UI Architect will partner and work closely with designers, technical leads, application architects, software developers, Dev-Ops engineers and business stakeholders in a highly collaborative environment as they design and build new components and or change requests to help guide overall direction of the user interface layer of the site. Job Description
  • Extensive hands-on-keyboard expertise of designing complex web portals
  • Integration web portals with different systems
  • Collaborate with delivery teams during both design and development phases to ensure adherence to UI architectural standards and best practices
  • Partner with other UI 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 / supervision to both local and remote development teams as required
  • 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
  • Lead and guide a team of developers to address the high priority production concerns
  • Promote cross team synergy and alignment to optimize code-sharing, improve site performance and increase speed to market
  • 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 Qualifications
    • 6-8 years' experience in the design, development and use of component-based UI architectures.
    • Expert level experience of VUE.JS framework
    • Expert level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model along with CSS, AJAX, DOM, Typescript
    • Advanced knowledge of Dev-Ops best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)
    • Experience in developing and optimizing large scale Node.JS applications
    • 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 Education:
      • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering plus 8 years of relevant work experience
      • or Master's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering plus 6 years of relevant work experience Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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