UI Architect

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Role: UI Architect

As an Architect, you will be working to keep the software technology aligned with the business requirement and will work in different engagements with different engineering teams to ensure the development of maintainable and scalable web applications.

Experience criteria:  12+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities:

• You will work directly with the AEM Architects owning the full-cycle of technical solutions of the applications to build a robust unified technical implementation and toolset. You will work with team to find and analyse present and anticipated future technical challenges with the projects.
• Define and decide development technology and platform, define development standards, tools, processes, etc.
• In collaboration with the Backend Architect discuss, formulate, and document a vision for Frontend architecture and approaches.
• Detail out and refine higher-level architecture decisions into a lower-level design.
• Lead implementation of technical and infrastructure initiatives to support architecture decisions.
• Overlook and review the work of the team to ensure that the architecture decisions are being executed and the team is following coding standards and architecture guidelines.
• Consult the UI team with ongoing projects. Help them align solutions with the architecture vision and industry best practices. Make software design (application-level) decisions with the team, take software architecture topics for further consideration and unification.
• Ensure technical knowledge sharing between development teams on related or similar projects.
• Lead the research on specific topics, experiment with various technologies, and provide recommendations based on your findings.
• Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvement at the architecture level.
• Constantly develop yourself and the team in technology advancements, research new approaches, tools and best practices in the software architecture and design space.
• Suggest improvements to our technology stack to optimize it for strategic growth and the competitive advantage.

Requirement:

• Previous experience working with multiple development teams.

• Experience in facilitating even the most heated discussions, ability to resolve them and take ownership for the decisions.
• Track record of delivering successful solutions as a leader.
• Be a world-class individual contributor. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do instead Lead by example.
• 10+ years of front-end web development experience — preference is given to candidates who have maintained or architected large scale application and use of component-based architectures, preferably with React and Redux or Vue.
• Additional consideration for experience working with high volume ECommerce websites or CMS platforms.
• Experience working with or building unified UI libraries            
• Clear understanding of software design patterns and principles.
• Experience with a variety of web application designs, including monolithic and SOA, understanding of service breakdown and communication principles.
• Experience guiding the continuous improvement of process and technology.
• Strong sense of ownership. You take responsibility for the success of the delivery.
• Commitment to quality. You take pride in everything you deliver as a reflection of yourself.
• Abstract thinking while paying attention to important details at the same time.
• Ability to take smart risks and champion new ideas.
• Ability to communicate clearly and constantly with teams in writing and on video calls.
• You must be an extraordinary individual contributor to thrive at Adobe.
• Ability to research and adopt new technologies quickly in a very dynamic working environment.

Technical Skills:

• In depth knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 (Less, Sass, Tailwind is a plus) with excellent knowledge of BEM methodology is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Hands on knowledge of JavaScript ES6 and design patterns
• Experience with Design System and knowledge on Atomic design paradigm is a plus.
• Extensive Experience in ReactJS is a must
• Experience working with RESTful and GraphQL APIs and Integration UI skills
• Experience in implementing Web Accessibility WCAG guidelines.
• Knowledge on Core Web Vitals, GLHS is required
• Experience working on Testing Frameworks like Jest, Jasmine, karma , Playwright will be a plus
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience in building PWA applications.
• Good knowledge of Node & npm, advanced knowledge of build systems such as Webpack/Grunt/Gulp etc, including Linting, Compiling, Minifying, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)
• A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimize web performance and Accessibility (WCAG) compliance.
• Familiarity with OWASP security; Aware of headless commerce implementation.
• Experience in building the front end for the AEM platform is an advantage.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.

Adherence to

o    Software development standards

o    Agile methodologies

o    Quality assurance

o    Standards Governance

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