Front-End UI Technical Architect
Company: ApTask
Location: Washington
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
About Client:
Client is a company that helps other businesses use technology to
improve and grow. They provide services like creating computer
programs, managing computer systems, and making sure everything is
secure. Client works with different industries like
telecommunications, healthcare, banking, and retail to help them
use new and exciting technologies like artificial intelligence,
cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. These technologies can
make businesses more efficient and innovative.
They have offices and people working all around the world, and
their team of experts helps businesses solve their technology
challenges. Client also cares about making a positive impact on
society and the environment, so they support social causes and work
to conserve resources.
Salary Range: $110K-$120K/Annum
Job Description:
The roles & responsibilities include the following:
- Lead front-end UI technical components for project Libra,
collaborate with stakeholders to define UI architecture,
considering scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
- Communicate critical UI design choices, specify requirements
and constraints for design and implementation, and provide input
for scoping the level effort for the project.
- Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering
changes in technology within the context of ITS current
implementation and our feature roadmap.
- Advise on designing micro front-end patterns, ensuring seamless
integration across components and services
- Define UI strategies for new features and components, assessing
if rollout plans are safe, progressive, and reversible.
- Champion micro front-end architecture.
- Break down monolithic UIs into smaller, independently
deployable units.
- Coordinate communication and data sharing between micro
front-ends.
- Familiarization with Asynchronous Service Patterns
- In-depth understanding of the business environment, its
processes and complexities of the organization and apply the
knowledge towards the proposed work program.
- Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible,
resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
- Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability
and consistency.
- Create UI pattern libraries that can be shared across
products.
- Ensure adherence to established UI guidelines and
standards.
- Profile and optimizing front-end performance.
- Implement best practices for minimizing JavaScript, CSS, and
HTML.
- Address bottlenecks related to rendering, data fetching, and
resource loading.
- Contribute to the development of a body of generally applicable
UI frameworks, methods, procedures, and deliverables.
- Utilize REST API invocation via libraries such as Axios etc.
and familiar with patterns such as promises
- Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies
and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be
developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
- Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions
recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
- Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and
standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.
- Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new
technologies.
- Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and
Business system components, envision solution for projects /
programs / applications.
- Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging
technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic
needs.
- Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between
design and implementation.
- Mentor UI engineers, guiding them on best practices.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
- Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise
Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with
the defined enterprise standards.
- Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with
management if there are any risks or issues.
- Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to
improve IT development and delivery.
- Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise
Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management
Office as and when needed.
- Understanding of security best practices and standards.
- Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology
strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their
business needs.
- Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments,
integration platforms, data flows, application inventories,
entity-relationships, and process workflows.
- Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile,
cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and
implementations aligned with specific business application
requirements and constraints.
- Identify the area in the architecture and design that are
contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to
remediate same.
- Work with other enterprise architecture team to align various
solutions architecture to enterprise standard, reference
architecture, patterns, and best practices.
- Identify technology trends which have the potential for the
World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms
and/or hosting solutions.
- Develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines,
individual parts, and configurations) for evolving the technical
infrastructure across the enterprise, to enable business strategy
and deliver business outcomes. Skills/Experience Required:
- About 8+ years of experience in architecting micro front-end
development and solutions on React
- Proven track record of building large-scale, production-grade
UI applications
- Proficiency in React.js and related technologies
- Familiarity with micro front-end patterns (e.g., single-spa,
module federation)
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles.
- Proficiency in at least one wireframing/prototyping tool (e.g.,
Axure, Omnigraffle).
- Command over DOM manipulation and performance
optimization.
- Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile
practices
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
- Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and
frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Staying informed about emerging front-end technologies and
trends.
- Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud platforms and services in an enterprise
environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and
patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor
design).
- Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development
initiatives.
- Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud
integration.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains
leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience
with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., using
AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager).
- Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices
and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker,
Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).
- Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting
changes to development, testing, deployment,
migration/transformation, and configuration management processes
consistent with a DevOps approach.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including
the ability to define technology roadmaps and evaluate
total-cost-of-ownership of solutions.
- Experience evaluating cloud service designs and alternatives to
achieve desired balance of performance, risk, and cost.
- Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green,
canary, rolling, draining)
- Experience managing programs and/or multiple projects,
including simultaneous task assignments.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to
communicate with all management levels.
- Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving
skills
- Organized, agile, persistent, and proactive. Ability to work on
multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, self-starters and
motivated, and able to work with others, and communicate
effectively.
- Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and
shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting
information in a clear and organized manner.
- Delivers information effectively in support of team or
workgroup. Good writing and editing skills, with a strong command
of English and an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear,
direct, and lively format.
- Able to take personal responsibility and accountability for
timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to
remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
- Strong experience in Modern Integration - cloud and in-premise
and/or hybrid, APIs, and ESB/SOA; and Data/Dataflow governance,
strategy, & implementation
- MUST have Micro Front-End experience
About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and
talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of
work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-certified company,
ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing
and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and
project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and
innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for
professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask
team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier
professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success
across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our
mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a
diverse and inclusive work environment.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by
video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to
present their current state or government issued ID during each
interview.
Candidate Data Collection Disclaimer:
At ApTask, we prioritize safeguarding your privacy. As part of our
recruitment process, certain Personally Identifiable Information
(PII) may be requested by our clients for verification and
application purposes. Rest assured, we strictly adhere to
confidentiality standards and comply with all relevant data
protection laws. Please note that we only collect the necessary
information as specified by each client and do not request
sensitive details during the initial stages of recruitment.
If you have any concerns or queries about your personal
information, please feel free to contact our compliance team at
businessexcellence@aptask.com .
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