Lead Architect

"This role is essential for delivering intuitive, data-driven UI/UX by integrating design best practices, frontend development, and web analytics. It ensures seamless collaboration between Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams while driving A/B testing, heatmaps, and behavior tracking for optimized user experiences. The position also focuses on design system consistency, accessibility (WCAG), and compliance (GDPR, CCPA). Additionally, it supports enterprise SaaS growth with AI-driven analytics and cloud-based monitoring, ensuring scalable and high-performing digital products.
Job Description Summary
Drive and coordinate the evolution of the UI/UX Architecture (Business, Application, Information & Infrastructure architectures) for internal information systems
Job Description
Common accountabilities:
Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in UI/UX discipline. Understands how UI/UX area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.
Influences decisions related to UI/UX activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.
Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.
Specific accountabilities:
UI/UX Strategy & Frontend Development
Work with Product Management, customers to develop a product vision.
Contributes to define the UI Strategy of a product or service by understanding business context, product strategy, customer values and brand vision.
Influence UI, UX, the scope and direction of a product or service to generate value and impact on the market.
Oversee UI/UX best practices, ensuring intuitive and engaging user experiences.
Lead design system development and standardization across products.
Collaborate with designers and developers to ensure seamless UI implementation.
Work with React, Angular, Vue.js, or other modern frontend frameworks.
Optimize UI for performance, accessibility (WCAG compliance), and responsiveness.
UI Research Activities
Collaborate, guide and influence the team and deliveries by giving research directions and advices on the projects
Develop a high visibility with top management, marketing and customers
Manage projects with UI/UX external partners, ensuring that product/project teams provide the right level of information and relevant testing material to external partners that research methodology applied by external partners is adequate
UX Design Activities
Wireframing & Prototyping Create low/high-fidelity UI mockups.
Visual Design & Styling Define typography, colors, icons, and components.
Interaction & Motion Design Implement microinteractions & animations.
Responsive & Adaptive UI Optimize UI across devices & platforms.
Design Handoff & Implementation Collaborate with developers for pixel-perfect execution.
Technical & Leadership Responsibilities
Mentor junior designers and frontend engineers on UI/UX and analytics best practices.
Drive cross-functional collaboration between design, analytics, and development teams.
Define and implement analytics dashboards and visualization tools.
Stay updated on industry trends and emerging UI and analytics technologies.
Web Analytics & Data-Driven UI/UX Optimization
Lead web analytics strategy using tools like Matomo, Quantum Metrics, and ContentSquare.
Define, track, and analyze user behavior metrics to improve digital products.
Implement A/B testing and conversion rate optimization (CRO) strategies.
Work closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to drive data-backed UI/UX decisions.
Ensure data accuracy and compliance with privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong understanding of UI/UX principles, design systems, and accessibility standards.
Familiarity with data privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA) and compliance in analytics.
Expertise in Analytics tools like Matomo, Quantum Metrics or similar tools is an add-on.
Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, or Vue.js.
Hands-on experience with A/B testing, heatmaps, and user behavior tracking.
Experience in data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in enterprise SaaS platforms or B2B applications.
Knowledge of AI-driven UI/UX optimization and LLM-based analyt"