Senior Front-End Architect & Team Lead (TS/SCI)

J&T Business Consulting; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 199,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with Company 50

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

J&T Business Consulting seeks a senior UI Front-End / Front-End Software Engineer to lead front-end architecture and UI team delivery for mission-critical operations in Annapolis Junction, MD.

You will mentor teams, translate UX/UI designs into responsive interfaces, architect component-based front-end systems, and work with back-end teams on RESTful/GraphQL APIs while ensuring accessibility and robust quality control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field plus at least 12 years of software engineering experience on programs/contracts of similar scope and complexity, OR 16 years of relevant software engineering experience without a degree.
• Minimum of 7 years dedicated to software database and repository interface development.
• Practical full-stack experience with back-end technologies (Node.js, Python, Java) and RESTful/GraphQL API design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor front-end engineering teams, providing technical direction, code reviews, coding standards, and task delegation.
• Translate design specifications into accessible, standards-compliant user interfaces (Section 508, WCAG).
• Collaborate with back-end engineers to design and integrate RESTful/GraphQL APIs, optimizing data flow between client interfaces and server-side components.
• Contribute to full-stack engineering efforts, including back-end microservices, database interfaces, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Design, optimize, and execute complex database/repository interfaces and queries.
• Confer with systems engineers, hardware teams, and mission stakeholders to derive software requirements and resolve technical challenges.
• Author and review system documentation, test plans, and software engineering standards.

Skills

Leadership

Frontend architecture

Agile methodologies

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

AWS/GovCloud

Job description

J&T Business Consulting seeks a senior UI Front-End / Front-End Software Engineer to lead front-end architecture and UI team delivery for mission-critical operations in Annapolis Junction, MD.

You will mentor teams, translate UX/UI designs into responsive interfaces, architect component-based front-end systems, and work with back-end teams on RESTful/GraphQL APIs while ensuring accessibility and robust quality control.