Director – Frontend Platforms, User Experience Engineering

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a seasoned Frontend Platform Lead to shape the frontend strategy, standards, and governance. You will own the roadmap, coach engineering managers, and drive modernization across teams.

You will collaborate with product, UX, security, and data teams to deliver scalable, accessible experiences using micro-frontends, API-first patterns, and edge-delivered capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant frontend engineering leadership experience.
• Proven experience building and scaling enterprise frontend platforms and design systems.
• Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and API-first integration.
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic decisions.
• Experience with modern frontend architectures including micro-frontends and platform-based approaches.
• Experience driving AI-enabled engineering practices preferred.
• Experience in large-scale SaaS or enterprise software contexts preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define frontend engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Lead engineering managers, architects, and frontend teams across a distributed organization.
• Establish platform standards, governance, and practices to improve quality and delivery speed.
• Drive architectural decisions across products, platforms, and domains.
• Partner with product and UX to deliver scalable, accessible experiences.
• Champion modern frontend architectures like micro-frontends and API-first design.
• Develop high-performing engineering organizations through coaching and succession planning.

Skills

Frontend leadership

Platform engineering

Design systems

Micro-frontends

API-first architecture

Cloud-native architectures

Executive stakeholder influence

Vendor relationships

Digital transformation

AI-enabled practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the frontend engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business, product, and technology objectives.
• Lead engineering managers, architects, and frontend engineering teams across a distributed organization.
• Establish frontend platform standards, governance models, and engineering practices that improve quality, consistency, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Drive architectural and technology decisions across products, platforms, and business domains.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to technology and business leaders on frontend platform strategy, modernization priorities, and investment decisions.
• Lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of enterprise design systems, User Interface (UI) frameworks, and reusable component libraries.
• Build shared frontend platforms and capabilities that accelerate product delivery, reduce duplication, and support consistent user experiences.
• Partner with product and UX leaders to deliver scalable, accessible, intuitive, and client-centered digital experiences.
• Champion modern frontend architectures and engineering patterns, including micro-frontends, API-first integration, event-driven systems, and edge-delivered experiences.
• Establish architecture guardrails and engineering standards that balance team autonomy with enterprise consistency.
• Lead modernization initiatives across existing and emerging product portfolios to improve scalability, performance, maintainability, and user outcomes.
• Partner with architecture, platform engineering, data and AI, security, operations, product, and UX teams to align platform strategy, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop high-performing engineering organizations through coaching, succession planning, talent development, and a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree preferred.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Significant software engineering experience, including significant frontend engineering expertise required.
• 5 or more years of experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders required.
• Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple teams required.
• Proven experience building and scaling enterprise frontend platforms, design systems, shared engineering capabilities, and reusable component libraries required.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives across multiple products, platforms, or business domains required.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, API-first integration, and modern software engineering practices required.
• Experience with modern frontend architectures, including micro-frontends and platform-based engineering approaches required.
• Experience driving adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, developer productivity tools, and platform-first development approaches preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders, guide strategic decision-making, and lead organizational change.
• Experience managing technology roadmaps, strategic investments, and vendor relationships preferred.
• Experience in large-scale SaaS, enterprise software, digital transformation, healthcare technology, globally distributed engineering organizations, or platform engineering environments preferred.