Lead UI Developer

Role:-Lead UI Developer

Location: Cincinnati, OH

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Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to understand UI/UX requirements and translate them into scalable front-end solutions.
• Lead the architecture and design of modern web applications using Angular and/or React.
• Define the right front-end frameworks, component models, state management approaches, integration patterns, responsive layouts, caching strategies, and security controls.
• Design highly scalable, reusable, flexible, and resilient front-end architectures aligned with business and enterprise goals.
• Provide technical leadership across the full project lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, development, testing, deployment, optimization, and production support.
• Recommend appropriate technologies, design patterns, and implementation approaches, with clear articulation of trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish front-end governance, coding standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for UI engineering.
• Drive performance optimization, refactoring, and modernization of existing UI modules and applications.
• Contribute hands-on to the development of critical components and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
• Design and review technical components across presentation tier, integration layer, server interactions, and data access touchpoints where relevant.
• Partner with UX/design teams to identify design issues, propose elegant solutions, and promote a user-centered design approach.
• Work with DevOps, infrastructure, and performance engineering teams to define build, release, deployment, observability, and runtime characteristics of applications.
• Lead code reviews, architectural reviews, production troubleshooting, and war room support when needed.
• Review and approve third-party and integration solution architecture in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Define and validate non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, accessibility, maintainability, and security.
• Mentor junior developers and engineers on front-end architecture, design patterns, clean code, testing, and delivery practices.
• Support estimation, solution planning, and technical input for project initiation, scope definition, and delivery planning.
• Maintain proactive and professional communication with customers, peers, and leadership teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent.
• 10+ years of overall IT experience in application development and maintenance.
• 2+ years of experience in a Lead or Architect role for front-end/UI engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience in Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and responsive web application development.
• Strong expertise in front-end architecture patterns including component-based architecture, micro frontends, and modern MVC/MVVM approaches.
• Experience building and integrating with RESTful APIs/services.
• Strong experience with RxJS, asynchronous programming, and common design patterns.
• Hands-on experience with front-end build and workflow tools such as Webpack, npm/yarn, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility, browser compatibility, and front-end security best practices.
• Experience with Agile delivery models, distributed teams, and DevOps practices including CI/CD.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes and customer value.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams while remaining hands-on.