UI Architect

ZealHire Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks an experienced Front End UI Architect to define and govern scalable, high-performing customer experiences across digital commerce.

You will establish frontend standards, guide React and Next.js modernization, and evolve micro-frontend and design-system strategies for consistent experiences. You will partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, engineering, QA, SRE, security, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions

Qualifications

• 10+ years of frontend or software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a frontend, UI, solution, or platform architecture role.
• Deep experience with Next.js and rendering architectures including SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, React Server Components, client rendering, and hydration tradeoffs.
• Experience with state and data-management approaches such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Context API, GraphQL clients, and event-based communication.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to engineers, product partners, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders through diagrams, decision records, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Large-scale retail or e-commerce platforms with high traffic, complex merchandising, personalization, search, cart, checkout, or order-management journeys.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state frontend architecture and multi-year modernization roadmap for digital commerce experiences.
• Own architectural decisions across React, TypeScript, Next.js, server rendering, React Server Components, hydration, routing, state management, caching, and frontend integration patterns.
• Establish and govern Micro Frontend architecture, including domain boundaries, composition, shared dependencies, deployment independence, versioning, and operational ownership.
• Create reference architectures, solution patterns, architectural decision records, standards, and guardrails that delivery teams can apply consistently.
• Embed accessibility, SEO, privacy, security, observability, resiliency, and operational readiness into frontend designs from the start.
• Mentor frontend leads and engineers, facilitate architecture reviews, and build alignment across multiple product teams, vendors, and enterprise platforms.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardize CI/CD, quality gates, automated testing, telemetry, release strategies, and production support practices.
• Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, or comparable content, experimentation, and analytics platforms.
• Performance and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, or Application Insights.
• Cloud-native, edge-compute, CDN, feature-flag, experimentation, and progressive-delivery patterns.
• Experience modernizing legacy frontend estates while protecting business continuity and enabling incremental delivery.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

Next.js

SSR / CSR / hydration

State management

Communication

Tools

Redux Toolkit

React Query

Context API

GraphQL clients

Job description

We are seeking a Front End UI Architect to define and govern the architecture of scalable, high-performing, accessible customer experiences across digital commerce channels. This role will establish frontend standards, guide React and Next.js modernization, evolve Micro Frontend and design-system strategies, and ensure teams deliver consistent, maintainable, and resilient user experiences. The architect will partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, engineering, QA, SRE, security, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions.

• Define the target-state frontend architecture and multi-year modernization roadmap for digital commerce experiences.
• Own architectural decisions across React, TypeScript, Next.js, server rendering, React Server Components, hydration, routing, state management, caching, and frontend integration patterns.
• Establish and govern Micro Frontend architecture, including domain boundaries, composition, shared dependencies, deployment independence, versioning, and operational ownership.
• Create reference architectures, solution patterns, architectural decision records, standards, and guardrails that delivery teams can apply consistently.
• Embed accessibility, SEO, privacy, security, observability, resiliency, and operational readiness into frontend designs from the start.
• Mentor frontend leads and engineers, facilitate architecture reviews, and build alignment across multiple product teams, vendors, and enterprise platforms.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardize CI/CD, quality gates, automated testing, telemetry, release strategies, and production support practices.
• Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, or comparable content, experimentation, and analytics platforms.
• Performance and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, or Application Insights.
• Cloud-native, edge-compute, CDN, feature-flag, experimentation, and progressive-delivery patterns.
• Experience modernizing legacy frontend estates while protecting business continuity and enabling incremental delivery.
• Agile product delivery in a matrixed enterprise environment with internal teams and strategic delivery partners.

Job Qualifications

• 10+ years of frontend or software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a frontend, UI, solution, or platform architecture role.
• Deep experience with Next.js and rendering architectures including SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, React Server Components, client rendering, and hydration tradeoffs.
• Experience with state and data-management approaches such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Context API, GraphQL clients, and event-based communication.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to engineers, product partners, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders through diagrams, decision records, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Large-scale retail or e-commerce platforms with high traffic, complex merchandising, personalization, search, cart, checkout, or order-management journeys.

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