Front-End Software Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Front-End Software Architect
• Work hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 5 days/40 hr per week
• Travel: ~10% domestic and international
• Teleworking permitted
• Compensation: $165,693 per year
• Location: Oak Brook, IL (300 Windsor Dr)

Description

Design and architect front-end software components for integration with existing frameworks, and provide architectural support across multiple project teams. Maintain knowledge of key application features and frameworks, review designs for standards compliance, and ensure security and data-privacy considerations are incorporated. Standardize UI style guidelines for reusable modules, evaluate tooling and platform changes for compatibility, and lead technical discussions to keep the technology modern.

Responsibilities

• Design front-end software subcomponents of limited complexity for integration with existing frameworks and architectures
• Provide architectural support and guidance for multiple project teams
• Review software designs for guideline/standards compliance and promote high software quality
• Evaluate changes to operating systems, tool chains, and hardware for compatibility
• Partner with UX to standardize style guidelines that enable reusable UI code modules
• Evaluate and recommend development tools to increase technology maturity
• Assess design-impacting security and data-privacy compliance issues
• Enforce design review process adoption and oversee execution to maintain quality
• Stay current with modern technologies and innovations that improve commercial success of the connectivity solution
• Facilitate technical discussions in communities of practice and design review forums
• Analyze requirements and collaborate with architects and senior engineers on designs for large, complex scopes
• Comply with security requirements (Information Security team and ISO 27001 Security Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities)
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and maintain confidentiality of company information

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency writing unit tests
• Experience using Git for source control
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum
• Code best practices: descriptive variable/function naming, quality comments, and strong test coverage
• Design best practices: Single Responsibility, Dependency Injection, Separation of Concerns
• UI patterns: MVC and MVVM
• RESTful services and JSON file format

Benefits

• Teleworking permitted
• Travel approximately 10% of the time
• Compensation listed at $165,693 per year