UI Angular Architect

Role: UI Angular Architect

Locations: New York, NY (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

F2F Interview MUST

Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 3-4 Days every week. Local or candidates from adjacent states only.

Job Description:

• The UX/UI Architect is responsible for the end-to-end modernization of the VMAD Portal user experience.
• This role leads Discovery, drives alignment across UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Front-End Engineering teams, and is accountable for the technical quality of all UI deliverables.
• The role establishes the patterns, specifications, and implementation standards used to accelerate delivery through AI-assisted development while ensuring consistency, maintainability, performance, and usability across the platform.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the UX/UI modernization effort from Discovery through UAT and production readiness.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering teams to understand current-state functionality and define modernization objectives.
• Analyze legacy application architecture, user workflows, database relationships, APIs, integration patterns, and technical dependencies.
• Drive alignment between Hero Journeys, business requirements, technical constraints, implementation patterns, and delivery objectives.
• Define and maintain specification schemas including attributes, types, required/optional elements, defaults/constraints, inheritance/composition patterns used by developers to refine specification patterns into AI-ready inputs for Devin Desktop or equivalent approved tooling.
• Establish specification patterns used for screens, workflows, APIs, integrations, security, environments, and shared platform capabilities.
• Create initial implementation specifications based on approved Hero Journeys and modernization objectives.
• Review and approve specification updates throughout delivery.
• Define the Angular 21 application architecture, repository structure, component model, routing standards, API integration patterns, security patterns, and development standards used throughout the modernization effort.
• Create foundational application scaffolding and reusable implementation patterns used by engineering teams.
• Define environment requirements and architecture specifications for Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Establish standards for reusable components, shared services, application structure, and integration approaches.
• Deliver the Single Pipeline Scaffold POC with Minimal Screen Display based on an approved Hero Journey and supported by mock data and mock services.
• Validate the modernization approach from Hero Journey through specification, implementation, API integration, and UI presentation.
• Establish baseline implementation patterns used for subsequent screen and workflow modernization activities.
• Coordinate UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering activities to ensure alignment between Hero Journeys, specifications, APIs, implementation patterns, and modernization objectives.
• Resolve architecture, design, integration, security, and implementation issues.
• Support Delivery, Hardening, Security Testing, Performance Testing, SIT, and UAT activities.
• Approve production deployment packages and release readiness activities.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to support code review, technical validation, troubleshooting, and specification compliance verification activities.
• Review and approve all pull requests.
• Ensure implementation aligns with approved specifications, architecture standards, security requirements, performance requirements, and user experience objectives.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction throughout delivery.

Required Skills:

• Enterprise application modernization
• User journey-driven design
• Angular architecture
• Component architecture
• Responsive web applications
• Information architecture
• Application integration architecture
• Design system implementation
• Angular 21
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• Angular Material
• RxJS
• REST APIs
• OpenAPI 3.0
• Git
• Azure DevOps
• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud technologies
• Specification-driven development
• Pull request review and approval
• AI-assisted code review and validation
• Specification compliance verification
• Repository design
• Application scaffolding
• Reusable component frameworks
• API integration patterns
• Authentication and authorization concepts
• Secure application development
• Technical leadership and mentoring

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Java 17 and Spring Boot architectures
• Cybersecurity domain experience
• Vulnerability management platforms
• Security analytics applications
• Enterprise dashboard design
• Risk management platforms
• OCSF familiarity
• Security graph concepts
• Exposure management platforms
• Financial services experience
• AI-assisted software development workflows
• Devin Desktop or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling experience

Required Experience:

• 10+ years enterprise application architecture and development experience.
• 5+ years leading UI modernization or enterprise portal transformation initiatives.
• 3+ years defining application architecture, implementation patterns, or engineering standards consumed by delivery teams.
• Experience building and architecting Angular enterprise applications.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms using Angular 21 and contemporary web application patterns.
• Experience leading geographically distributed delivery teams preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale application modernization programs preferred.