Senior Design Systems Architect (Contract) – Calgary

InSync Systems; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

InSync Systems Inc. seeks a Senior Design Systems Architect for a 2-month contract in Calgary, Alberta, with hybrid on-site work and limited remote days. The role focuses on creating a scalable design system for a regulatory web app, token architecture, and an AI-enabled development workflow.

The candidate will lead token strategy, component governance, and design-to-code pipelines, ensuring accessibility and rigorous documentation for handoff to engineering teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in interaction design, human computer interaction, design, computer science, or related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating design system work and shipped complex applications is required.
• Certification such as IAAP CPACC or WAS, or Nielsen Norman Group UX certification, is recommended. Demonstrated implementation experience is weighted above certification.
• Demonstrated authorship of a production design system with implemented components.
• Design token architecture experience with semantic layering, theming, and tokens published to code.
• Hands on WCAG 2.2 AA conformance work and accessibility conformance experience.
• Demonstrated use of AI tooling in the design and build workflow to produce shipped work.
• Experience designing complex regulatory apps with multi-step forms and high data density.
• Strong technical writing. Governance of a shared component library across teams.

Responsibilities

• Author the design system for the regulatory web app including tokens, components, layouts, and patterns.
• Translate the design guide into a token architecture with semantic layering, theming, and density variants.
• Define layout standards for multi-step forms, dashboards, maps, and document viewers.
• Define component inventory and usage rules for Material, extensions, and custom builds.
• Publish machine readable tokens, APIs, and usage rules for AI tooling.
• Establish end-to-end AI-assisted design-to-code workflow to Angular Material pages.
• Design AI features with provenance, citations, confidence, and human escalation.
• Define digital adoption patterns and instrumentation to measure task success.
• Governance: versioning, deprecation, breaking changes, CI conformance.
• Coach teams and transfer standards to named owner.

Skills

Design systems

UX/UI design

Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

AI tooling in design

Technical writing

Governance of component libraries

Regulatory app design

Documentation writing

Portfolio of design system work

Education

University degree in interaction design / related

UX certification (IAAP CPACC / Nielsen Norman Group)

Tools

Angular

Angular Material

Job description

InSync Systems Inc. seeks a Senior Design Systems Architect for a 2-month contract in Calgary, Alberta, with hybrid on-site work and limited remote days. The role focuses on creating a scalable design system for a regulatory web app, token architecture, and an AI-enabled development workflow.

The candidate will lead token strategy, component governance, and design-to-code pipelines, ensuring accessibility and rigorous documentation for handoff to engineering teams.