Senior UI Architect & Lead Frontend Engineer (Remote)

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Aikyam UI Engineering Lead is a senior role guiding front-end architecture for customer-facing and admin interfaces. The role combines hands-on coding, architectural influence, and people leadership to ensure secure, scalable UI solutions aligned with enterprise identity standards.

You will mentor UI engineers, collaborate with product, UX, security, and platform teams, and drive modern front-end practices while meeting HIPAA and enterprise security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in UI / front end development in an enterprise-scale, customer facing application.
• 5+ years of experience with JavaScript / TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS3.
• 3+ years of scripting (Python and PowerShell).
• 3+ years of cloud native development with AWS / Azure / GCP.
• Experience leading UI teams or acting as UI technical lead.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, Identity federation, SSO, RBAC, ABAC, MFA, RBAC.

Responsibilities

• Lead UI architecture and design patterns for scalable, reusable, and secure front end solutions.
• Own UI standards for performance, accessibility (WCAG), security, and user experience consistency.
• Drive modern front end practices (micro frontends, modular UI, design systems, state management).
• Partner with stakeholders and security architects to deliver end to end identity experiences.
• Ensure high quality deliverables by enforcing quality gates and engineering standards.
• Provide technical mentorship to UI engineers (onshore/offshore).

Skills

UI architecture

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS3

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

SAML 2.0

RBAC

MFA

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Aikyam UI Engineering Lead is a senior role guiding front-end architecture for customer-facing and admin interfaces. The role combines hands-on coding, architectural influence, and people leadership to ensure secure, scalable UI solutions aligned with enterprise identity standards.

You will mentor UI engineers, collaborate with product, UX, security, and platform teams, and drive modern front-end practices while meeting HIPAA and enterprise security requirements.