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Senior Front End Architect
What you’ll do
Your mission as a Senior Front End Architect will be lead the design and implementation of scalable design systems, ensuring consistency and adherence to architectural standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate emerging front-end technologies, provide technical oversight, and support development best practices. Communicate solutions and status updates effectively to stakeholders while troubleshooting complex issues and championing technical change initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
· Creates and oversees the architectural design of design systems, ensuring accessibility, scalability and consistency across medium to large-sized projects with a focus on web components and atomic design systems.
· Ensures the front-end architecture is communicated, understood, and adhered to by the design and development teams.
· Works on multiple front-end projects, managing time effectively while proactively assessing risk and dependencies specific to front-end technologies.
· Partners with peer architects on large projects to provide ongoing front-end architecture oversight throughout the development lifecycle.
· Evaluates and recommends emerging trends in front-end design and development strategies, assessing their applicability in the design system environment.
· Evaluates and makes recommendations for build versus buy decisions, specifically for front-end libraries and tools.
· Ensures consistency with front-end architectural standards for assigned projects.
· Writes design specifications and other technical documentation focused on front-end components and design system usage.
· Demonstrates design and technology approaches via front-end prototypes to validate concepts and solutions.
· Acts as an expert in front-end technology domains, such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
· Troubleshoots and resolves complex front-end problems and technical issues, taking a holistic and preventive perspective across systems and technologies.
· Supports and champions front-end technical change initiatives, ensuring alignment with design system goals.
· Identifies technical risks in front-end projects and supports mitigation efforts.
· Communicates front-end solutions and technical designs to business unit executives, technology management, peers, and development staff.
· Collaborates in setting front-end development guidelines and best practices for the design system.
· Reviews front-end technical designs to ensure compliance with standards and design system principles.
Minimum Qualifications:
Please, upload your resume in English.
Why Cognizant?
A career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide.
Ongoing support and funding with training and development plans.
A highly competitive benefits and salary package.
Opportunity to work for leading global companies.
Cognizant values diversity in our talent pool, so we encourage professionals with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, people in refugee situations, women, racial groups, and professionals 50+ to apply for all of our advertised openings.
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000+ associates around the world.
- We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.
About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com
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Disclaimer:
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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