Principal UI Architect

Company Description

McFadyen Digital is a global Digital Commerce Agency with a 30-year history of innovation for more than 250 of the world’s top brands. We deliver digital commerce, marketplace, digital marketing, and user experience services from our offices in North America, South America, and India. Across all practices, we help our clients reach their goals by ensuring that technology is implemented strategically and adopted in a way that meets their business objectives.

**Job Description**:
**Role and responsibilities**
- 14+ year experience in the design, development and use of component-based UI architectures.
- Collaborate with delivery teams throughout the design and development phases to guarantee compliance with UI architectural standards and best practises
- Partner with other UI Architects to steer the ongoing development of a modern user interface layer
- Define and document standards and ensure they are implemented and understood by development teams and technology partners.
- Design and develop proof of concept prototypes for advanced features and designs
- Provide technical guidance and oversight as needed to both local and remote development teams
- Evaluating and improving software development and delivery processes with an emphasis on performance optimization approaches.
- Develop and manage a set of performance standards for all development projects, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
- Providing technical oversight and performing code reviews for multiple development efforts
- Leading and guiding a team of developers to address the high priority production concerns
- Promoting cross-team synergy and alignment to optimise code-sharing, improve site performance, and increase speed to market

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**
- Experience on the following core languages: JavaScript ES6, HTML 5 & CSS
- Expert level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model along with, AJAX, DOM, and Typescript
- Expert level experience of frameworks like React, React, and VUE.JS
- Deep understanding of web service technologies (HTTP, REST, JSON) and design principle
- Experience working with stylesheet languages like SASS and LESS
- Expertise in Dev-Ops best practises and Continuous Integration (CI/CD) techniques
- Advanced knowledge of build systems such as Grunt/Gulp/ etc, including Linting, Compiling, Minifying, etc.
- Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs
- Experience in implementation of headless commerce
- Good understanding of Server-Side Rendering
- Platforms:
- NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
- Running Java Application Servers (Oracle WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat).
- Testing frameworks (Jasmine, Karma, Protractor).
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Other skills:
- Cross-browser techniques
- UI development using Swagger
- Debugging with tools like (Chrome Dev Tools, Web Inspector)
- Awareness of OWASP security
- Responsive design implementation across devices, platforms, screens, etc.
- Browser performance auditing and tuning.
- Demonstrated skills using distributed code repositories (Git, Perforce, BitBucket) with code reviews.
- Experience working within Scrum / Kanban
- Web Accessibility

Additional Information
**Your Core Values**: Integrity, Motivation, Proactive, Team-Player

**Keywords**:E-commerce platforms, Magento, Shopify, Hybris, Oracle, Mirakl, Architecture, Technology area, IT, business team, Team effort, Enterprise ecommerce systems, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Mirakl

**To Apply**: We value smart, creative individuals who are multi-dimensional thinkers and thrive on professional development. Superb competence and continual improvement are key goals for everyone at McFadyen Solutions. This is an exciting opportunity with tremendous growth potential for someone who is focused on excellence. Your portfolio should impress us with great skills and conceptual problem-solving. We seek people who can demonstrate both compelling form and technical accuracy. Tell us why you would be a great addition to our team.

McFadyen Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable.