Front End Design System Specialist (Govt)

scrumconnect ltd; Monkton Heathfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Front End Developer specialising in design systems to build and maintain a government-standard component library. You will enable adoption across delivery teams and document changes, with a focus on accessibility, performance, and developer experience.

Responsibilities include building components with React/Angular, collaborating with designers in Figma, and ensuring WCAG 2.2 AA compliance through automated tests and pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building or maintaining government design systems or component libraries.
• Strong experience auditing and remediating to WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Strong Front End skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS with React and/or Angular.
• Experience with Figma Dev Mode/Figma Make.
• Experience supporting change, communications and adoption for a design system or similar shared product.
• Experience writing code that calls APIs.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and YAML pipelines.
• Fluent English and clear written and verbal communication.
• Experience with DAST tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a government-standard component library and design system.
• Audit and remediate components to WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Develop Front End components in the design system's existing stack, packaged and versioned for reuse.
• Work with designers using Figma to turn designs into production components.
• Support change, communications and adoption activity for design system rollout across delivery teams.
• Write and maintain automated tests, with component testing through Storybook and Chromatic.
• Maintain automated build, test and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and YAML.
• Maintain documentation sites and release notes, including migration guides for breaking changes.

Skills

Design systems

Component libraries

WCAG 2.2 AA

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Angular

Figma Dev Mode

Azure DevOps

Tools

Storybook

Chromatic

npm packaging

Web components

YAML

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking a Front End Developer specialising in design systems to build and maintain a government-standard component library. You will enable adoption across delivery teams and document changes, with a focus on accessibility, performance, and developer experience.

Responsibilities include building components with React/Angular, collaborating with designers in Figma, and ensuring WCAG 2.2 AA compliance through automated tests and pipelines in Azure DevOps.