Frontend Transformation Solution Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION: A leadership / evangelist role to establish best practices and drive results. We need to ensure the candidates can stand up to those leadership demands. There is a bit of a unicorn aspect as there is a lot of technical discussion along with leadership.

• Lead transformation from monolith to micro-frontends (e.g., Module Federation/single-spa/ import maps)
• Drives end-to-end technical strategy and architectural patterns for enterprise-scale front end platforms (dotcom scale)
• Leads transformation initiatives integrating legacy and modern stacks (monolith to micro frontend, SSR/ edge rendering)
• Owns technical governance, frameworks, and reusable architecture libraries
• Partners with business and platform teams to drive AI-forward engineering practices.
• Own end-to-end frontend architecture for enterprise/dot-com scale platforms
• Lead transformation from monolith to micro-frontends (e.g., Module Federation/single-spa/import maps)
• Define SSR/SSG/ISR strategies with edge rendering (Next.js/Remix; Cloudflare/Vercel/AWS)
• Establish technical governance, coding standards, and repo strategy (monorepo with Nx/Turborepo)
• Architect and scale design systems (tokens, theming, Storybook, multi-brand support)
• Set Core Web Vitals budgets and drive performance (code-splitting, tree-shaking, image/CDN optimization)
• Enforce WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility with automated checks integrated into CI
• Standardize state management (Redux Toolkit/Zustand/XState) and data fetching (TanStack Query/RTK Query/SWR)
• Engineer client/server caching (HTTP caching, ETags, SWR, service workers/ IndexedDB, GraphQL caching/APQ)
• Reduce client chatter via BFFs, request coalescing, prefetching, partial hydration, and streaming
• Design secure auth/identity beyond basic JWT (OAuth2/OIDC/SSO, PKCE, refresh rotation, CSRF/cookie strategies)
• Define API/BFF patterns (Node/Nest/Express; GraphQL & REST), secrets handling, and threat modeling
• Own testing strategy for React components and hooks (Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, renderHook, MSW, Cypress/Playwright)
• Promote React best practices (functional components, Hooks, memoization, RSC/server actions)
• Implement observability (OpenTelemetry, Sentry/Datadog), error budgets, and performance SLOs
• Drive CI/CD, release strategies (feature flags, canary/blue-green), and environment parity
• Partner with product/platform/security; mentor engineers; lead technical design reviews and interviews
• Guide Git strategy (GitFlow vs trunk-based), branch protections, and release management
• Lead CMS/headless integrations (Sitecore/Contentful/AEM) within a composable DXP approach
• Ensure i18n/L10n (including RTL) and multi-tenant/multi-brand theming across experiences
• Champion AI-forward patterns (RAG/BFF gateways, guardrails, evaluation/telemetry) where applicable