UX/UI Architect

Swift Hire LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Swift Hire LLC seeks a UX/UI Architect / Program Lead to modernize the VMAD Portal user experience from Discovery through production readiness. You will drive alignment across UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, and multiple engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reusable UI patterns.

You will establish specification standards, environmental requirements, and implementation patterns to accelerate AI-assisted development while maintaining performance and

Qualifications

• Experience leading UI modernization or enterprise portal transformation.
• Proven ability to define architecture, patterns, and standards for delivery teams.
• Hands-on Angular enterprise applications with modern web patterns.
• Experience guiding distributed teams and modernization programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UX/UI modernization from Discovery to production readiness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and multiple engineering teams to define modernization objectives.
• Analyze legacy architecture, workflows, APIs, and dependencies.
• Drive alignment between journeys, requirements, constraints, and delivery objectives.
• Define specification schemas and AI-ready inputs for tooling.
• Create environment requirements and architectural specifications for all environments.
• Deliver the Single Pipeline Scaffold POC with mock data/services.
• Review and approve all PRs and ensure alignment with specs and security.

Skills

Enterprise application modernization

User journey-driven design

Angular architecture

Component architecture

Responsive web applications

Information architecture

Application integration architecture

Design system implementation

Angular 21

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS3 / SCSS

Angular Material

RxJS

REST APIs

OpenAPI 3.0

Git

Azure DevOps

Azure, AWS, or similar cloud

Specification-driven development

Pull request review and approval

AI-assisted code review and validation

Specification compliance verification

Repository design

Application scaffolding

Reusable component frameworks

API integration patterns

Authentication and authorization

Secure application development

Technical leadership and mentoring

Tools

OpenAPI 3.0

Git

Azure DevOps

Azure

AWS

Job description

Must have skills

• Enterprise application modernization
• User journey-driven design
• Angular architecture
• Component architecture
• Responsive web applications
• Information architecture
• Application integration architecture
• Design system implementation
• Angular 21
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• Angular Material
• RxJS
• REST APIs

Good to have skills

• Familiarity with Java 17 and Spring Boot architectures
• Cybersecurity domain experience
• Vulnerability management platforms
• Security analytics applications
• Enterprise dashboard design
• Risk management platforms
• OCSF familiarity

Grade: D2

Location: New York

Description

UX/UI Architect / Program Lead (D2)

VMAD Modernization Program

Data & Analytics Transformation (Perseus)

Role Summary

The UX/UI Architect is responsible for the end-to-end modernization of the VMAD Portal user experience. This role leads Discovery, drives alignment across UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Front-End Engineering teams, and is accountable for the technical quality of all UI deliverables. The role establishes the patterns, specifications, and implementation standards used to accelerate delivery through AI-assisted development while ensuring consistency, maintainability, performance, and usability across the platform.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the UX/UI modernization effort from Discovery through UAT and production readiness.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering teams to understand current-state functionality and define modernization objectives.
• Analyze legacy application architecture, user workflows, database relationships, APIs, integration patterns, and technical dependencies.
• Drive alignment between Hero Journeys, business requirements, technical constraints, implementation patterns, and delivery objectives.
• Define and maintain specification schemas including attributes, types, required/optional elements, defaults/constraints, inheritance/composition patterns used by developers to refine specification patterns into AI-ready inputs for Devin Desktop or equivalent approved tooling.
• Establish specification patterns used for screens, workflows, APIs, integrations, security, environments, and shared platform capabilities.
• Create initial implementation specifications based on approved Hero Journeys and modernization objectives.
• Review and approve specification updates throughout delivery.
• Define the Angular 21 application architecture, repository structure, component model, routing standards, API integration patterns, security patterns, and development standards used throughout the modernization effort.
• Create foundational application scaffolding and reusable implementation patterns used by engineering teams.
• Define environment requirements and architecture specifications for Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Establish standards for reusable components, shared services, application structure, and integration approaches.
• Deliver the Single Pipeline Scaffold POC with Minimal Screen Display based on an approved Hero Journey and supported by mock data and mock services.
• Validate the modernization approach from Hero Journey through specification, implementation, API integration, and UI presentation.
• Establish baseline implementation patterns used for subsequent screen and workflow modernization activities.
• Coordinate UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering activities to ensure alignment between Hero Journeys, specifications, APIs, implementation patterns, and modernization objectives.
• Resolve architecture, design, integration, security, and implementation issues.
• Support Delivery, Hardening, Security Testing, Performance Testing, SIT, and UAT activities.
• Approve production deployment packages and release readiness activities.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to support code review, technical validation, troubleshooting, and specification compliance verification activities.
• Review and approve all pull requests.
• Ensure implementation aligns with approved specifications, architecture standards, security requirements, performance requirements, and user experience objectives.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction throughout delivery.

Required Skills

• Enterprise application modernization
• User journey-driven design
• Angular architecture
• Component architecture
• Responsive web applications
• Information architecture
• Application integration architecture
• Design system implementation
• Angular 21
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• Angular Material
• RxJS
• REST APIs
• OpenAPI 3.0
• Git
• Azure DevOps
• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud technologies
• Specification-driven development
• Pull request review and approval
• AI-assisted code review and validation
• Specification compliance verification
• Repository design
• Application scaffolding
• Reusable component frameworks
• API integration patterns
• Authentication and authorization concepts
• Secure application development
• Technical leadership and mentoring

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with Java 17 and Spring Boot architectures
• Cybersecurity domain experience
• Vulnerability management platforms
• Security analytics applications
• Enterprise dashboard design
• Risk Management platforms
• OCSF familiarity
• Security graph concepts
• Exposure management platforms
• Financial services experience
• AI-assisted software development workflows
• Devin Desktop or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling experience

Experience

• 10+ years enterprise application architecture and development experience.
• 5+ years leading UI modernization or enterprise portal transformation initiatives.
• 3+ years defining application architecture, implementation patterns, or engineering standards consumed by delivery teams.
• Experience building and architecting Angular enterprise applications.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms using Angular 21 and contemporary web application patterns.
• Experience leading geographically distributed delivery teams preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale application modernization programs preferred.