Technical Architect-UI

Description GSPANN is hiring a Technical Architect with expertise in UI to lead the design and delivery of scalable, high-quality frontend solutions. The role involves providing architectural guidance, driving pre-sales, and ensuring on-time delivery of e-commerce and omni-channel applications.

Role and Responsibilities

Act as the primary spokesperson for solutions and applications, liaising with customers and delivering capability demonstrations. Lead client proposals, including presentations, scoping, effort estimation, and other pre-sales activities. Create Statements of Work (SOWs) with milestone plans, key deliverables, assumptions, commercials, dependencies, and other contractual artifacts. Collaborate with clients to develop eCommerce strategies aligned with their business goals. Provide technical and architectural guidance for frontend web applications. Take complete ownership of assigned projects and ensure delivery on time with high quality. Build and maintain strong client relationships. Manage change requests and control scope creep. Monitor project baselines to ensure planned progress and timely delivery. Manage profit and loss (P&L) for projects, ensuring consistent margins and compliance with client service level agreements (SLAs). Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks in the timeline and budget. Participate in key Agile sprint ceremonies such as Sprint Planning and Retrospectives. Oversee daily activities of the delivery team, providing direction and guidance when required. Guide the team in requirement closures, design, development, verification, and validation tasks. Identify and implement productivity and quality process improvements. Make critical business decisions to meet client expectations. Ensure the team maintains operational excellence and a high level of competence. Publish regular status reports with metrics for internal and external stakeholders. Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs), architects, and leads to define best practices and benchmarks. Proactively identify risks and issues on programs or projects and develop mitigation plans. Support account mining by identifying new service opportunities and assisting sales teams in closing deals. Provide thought leadership by identifying business problems, creating frameworks, and offering innovative solutions to clients. Generate and execute onboarding, training, knowledge transfer (KT), and skill-building plans. Contribute to hiring the right talent for the organization. Mentor and motivate team members, handle appraisals, and drive employee engagement and retention. Ensure case studies are created, published, and shared with stakeholders. Encourage team members to write white papers and blogs to showcase expertise.

Skills and Experience

Required Skills

12+ years of IT experience in user interface (UI) technologies and frameworks such as Angular, ReactJS, Node.js, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Vue.js, and Bootstrap. Proven experience working on e-commerce projects. At least 5 years of experience as a Technical Architect. Strong track record in developing and managing omni-channel applications (mobile, tablet, web) using responsive design and cross-browser compatibility. Knowledge of building UI for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC/Demandware) platforms. Hands-on experience developing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda functions. Expertise in RESTful services and industry-standard design patterns. Proven ability to configure and optimize the performance of UI applications. Demonstrated success delivering projects with “first time right” quality and zero defects in production. Client-facing experience in a cross-functional, matrixed organization with close collaboration across stakeholders, offshore development teams, senior management, and onsite teams. Experience in pre-sales activities, including Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). Strong coding skills and proficiency in estimation techniques (Use Case, Function Points, Story Points). Experience making presentations and demos for customers and internal management. Proven success in building and managing teams of 30+ resources across accounts or UI portfolios. Experience driving organizational initiatives such as case studies, white papers, and blogs. Proficiency with version control and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools such as SVN, Git, Jenkins, Cucumber, and Hudson. Proven ability to publish program and portfolio metrics to senior management. Solid understanding of both B2B and B2C eCommerce. Strong experience with Agile execution methodologies. Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.

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