Lead UI Developer

Role:

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Lead UI Developer Location:

Cincinnati, OH JD:

- Key Responsibilities Collaborate with clients, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to understand UI/UX requirements and translate them into scalable front-end solutions. Lead the architecture and design of modern web applications using Angular and/or React. Define the right front-end frameworks, component models, state management approaches, integration patterns, responsive layouts, caching strategies, and security controls. Design highly scalable, reusable, flexible, and resilient front-end architectures aligned with business and enterprise goals. Provide technical leadership across the full project lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, development, testing, deployment, optimization, and production support. Recommend appropriate technologies, design patterns, and implementation approaches, with clear articulation of trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Establish front-end governance, coding standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for UI engineering. Drive performance optimization, refactoring, and modernization of existing UI modules and applications. Contribute hands-on to the development of critical components and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices. Design and review technical components across presentation tier, integration layer, server interactions, and data access touchpoints where relevant. Partner with UX/design teams to identify design issues, propose elegant solutions, and promote a user-centered design approach. Work with DevOps, infrastructure, and performance engineering teams to define build, release, deployment, observability, and runtime characteristics of applications. Lead code reviews, architectural reviews, production troubleshooting, and war room support when needed. Review and approve third-party and integration solution architecture in alignment with enterprise standards. Define and validate non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, accessibility, maintainability, and security. Mentor junior developers and engineers on front-end architecture, design patterns, clean code, testing, and delivery practices. Support estimation, solution planning, and technical input for project initiation, scope definition, and delivery planning. Maintain proactive and professional communication with customers, peers, and leadership teams. Required Qualifications Bachelor s degree or equivalent. 10+ years of overall IT experience in application development and maintenance. 2+ years of experience in a Lead or Architect role for front-end/UI engineering. Strong hands-on experience in Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and responsive web application development. Strong expertise in front-end architecture patterns including component-based architecture, micro frontends, and modern

MVC/MVVM

approaches. Experience building and integrating with RESTful APIs/services. Strong experience with RxJS, asynchronous programming, and common design patterns. Hands-on experience with front-end build and workflow tools such as Webpack, npm/yarn, and modern CI/CD pipelines. Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, and front-end security best practices. Experience with Agile delivery models, distributed teams, and DevOps practices including CI/CD. Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes and customer value. Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills. Proven ability to lead teams while remaining hands-on.