Remote Lead Frontend Technical Architect

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Responsibilities

Frontend Architecture & Technical Strategy

• Own and drive the frontend technical architecture, ensuring applications are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with the overall technology direction.

• Define and promote consistent frontend architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and development practices across all pods.

• Work closely with Tech Leads and Pod Leads to establish frontend best practices and consistent approaches to solving technical challenges.

• Review and challenge technical designs and proposed solutions, ensuring they meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.

• Identify opportunities to simplify solutions, reduce complexity, and introduce more effective ways of building frontend applications.

• Evaluate emerging frontend technologies, frameworks, and tools, recommending solutions that deliver measurable value.

Hands-On Development & Technical Leadership

• Remain hands-on with frontend development, contributing to complex implementations and resolving challenging technical issues.

• Lead technical spikes and proof-of-concepts (POCs) to investigate complex problems, validate approaches, and recommend appropriate technical solutions.

• Provide technical guidance and support to Tech Leads and developers, helping teams make sound technical decisions and follow agreed architectural standards.

• Review code, troubleshoot issues, and share technical knowledge while leading by example and raising engineering quality across pods.

• Support the investigation and resolution of critical production issues, collaborating across teams to identify root causes and implement long-term fixes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Integration

• Collaborate with Backend Architects and Tech Leads to understand frontend/backend dependencies, define API contracts, and address integration challenges early.

• Work with Tech Leads to translate business requirements into practical, achievable frontend solutions that support the intended user experience.

• Partner with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Backend Architects, and DevOps teams to ensure frontend solutions align with broader architecture and integration standards.

Performance, Quality & Security

• Drive frontend performance improvements, focusing on application load times, rendering, responsiveness, caching, and overall user experience.

• Define and promote frontend testing best practices across unit, integration, component, and end-to-end testing.

• Ensure quality is incorporated throughout the development process and that frontend security best practices are consistently followed.

• Collaborate with security and backend teams to identify and address vulnerabilities and protect application data.

• Define frontend monitoring and observability practices to improve visibility into application performance, errors, and production issues.

Developer Productivity & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity through better tooling, automation, CI/CD enhancements, and AI-assisted development practices.

• Continuously assess development practices and recommend improvements that help teams build and maintain applications more effectively.