UI Tech Lead

HCLTech; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Frontend Lead to drive scalable UI architectures and implement design systems across enterprise products. You will mentor teams, establish standards, and ensure accessibility, performance, and security while collaborating with product, UX, backend, QA, and DevOps counterparts.

The role emphasizes governance of UI components, production readiness, and AI-enabled development practices to raise engineering maturity and delivery quality.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, routing, modular design, and reusable components.
• Experience with design systems, shared UI libraries, component governance, and UI consistency.
• Good understanding of unit, integration, automation testing, and UI testability.
• Strong experience with code reviews, documentation, engineering practices, and maintainable code design.
• Must have infrastructure awareness, including CI/CD, build systems, deployments, cloud hosting, environments, monitoring, logging, and release governance.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices and frontend production delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable, maintainable UI applications.
• Define frontend architecture, coding standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Guide the team on component development, design system adoption, accessibility, performance, and responsive design.
• Review designs, pull requests, and implementation approaches for quality and consistency.
• Mentor developers and improve engineering maturity.
• Collaborate with product, UX, backend, QA, DevOps, and architecture teams.
• Identify technical risks early and propose practical solutions.
• Improve build quality, release readiness, productivity, and maintainability.
• Support debugging, RCA, performance tuning, and production issue resolution.
• Ensure UI applications meet security, compliance, accessibility, and enterprise standards.

Skills

Frontend architecture

Design systems

UI testing

Code reviews

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Cross-functional leadership

AI-assisted development

Tools

Shared component libraries

Cloud platforms

API design

Job description

Only Immediate joiner to 30 days notice period candidates are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of scalable, maintainable UI applications.
• Define frontend architecture, coding standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Guide the team on component development, design system adoption, accessibility, performance, and responsive design.
• Review designs, pull requests, and implementation approaches for quality and consistency.
• Mentor developers and improve engineering maturity.
• Collaborate with product, UX, backend, QA, DevOps, and architecture teams.
• Identify technical risks early and propose practical solutions.
• Improve build quality, release readiness, productivity, and maintainability.
• Support debugging, RCA, performance tuning, and production issue resolution.
• Ensure UI applications meet security, compliance, accessibility, and enterprise standards.

Required Skills and Experience

• Self-learner and able to onboard themselves quickly.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, state management, routing, modular design, and reusable components.
• Experience with design systems, shared UI libraries, component governance, and UI consistency.
• Good understanding of unit, integration, automation testing, and UI testability.
• Strong experience with code reviews, documentation, engineering practices, and maintainable code design.
• Must have infrastructure awareness, including CI/CD, build systems, deployments, cloud hosting, environments, monitoring, logging, and release governance.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices and frontend production delivery.
• Good to have backend awareness, including APIs, microservices, authentication, authorization, data contracts, and integrations.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and convert business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Applied AI for Development

• Uses AI tools for coding, reviews, refactoring, documentation, test generation, and debugging.
• Guides developers on safe, effective AI usage without blindly accepting AI output.
• Understands enterprise-safe AI practices, including data protection and output validation.
• Acts as technical owner for frontend delivery and quality.
• Makes practical engineering decisions with maintainability in mind.
• Coaches developers and raises team capability.
• Communicates clearly with stakeholders, leadership, architects, and engineering teams.
• Balances speed with quality, security, accessibility, and scalability.
• Promotes accountability, continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading UI teams or acting as a tech lead in enterprise product development.
• Experience with shared component libraries.
• Experience with cloud deployments and enterprise CI/CD.
• Exposure to backend development, API design, or full-stack engineering.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted development practices within engineering teams.