Front End Architect (Vapi)

Role Summary The Frontend Architect is a technical leadership role within the Platform Team, responsible for guiding teams in delivering exceptional user experiences through sound technical strategy, design systems, and implementation standards across the product suite. This role ensures a cohesive, high-quality user experience across web and mobile interfaces serving small, medium, and large enterprise customers in the HR and payroll domain.

This role works alongside Engineering Leads and Senior Software Engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and strategic guidance for all front-end and user experience initiatives across feature teams and platform services.

Key Responsibilities: UI/UX Strategy & Vision
- Lead the development and communication of the UI/UX technical vision for the product suite, building consensus across teams and ensuring consistency across web and mobile platforms.
- Collaborate with teams to establish UX principles, patterns, and guidelines tailored to the needs of HR and payroll users across different customer segments (SMB through to large enterprise).
- Champion user-centred design thinking across engineering teams, mentoring engineers to balance user needs with technical feasibility and delivery pragmatism.
- Guide teams to embed accessibility (WCAG compliance), internationalisation, and responsive design as core considerations in all front-end work.

Technology Selection & Implementation Standards
- Lead the evaluation and recommendation of front-end technology choices for web and mobile, facilitating team input and selecting best-of-breed UI frameworks that integrate effectively with the existing .NET backend ecosystem.
- Guide teams in establishing reference implementations for front-end applications, including component structure, state management, API integration patterns, and micro-frontend or modular approaches where appropriate.
- Work with teams to establish standards for mobile development (native, cross-platform, o Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.in/job/4lka89