[Hiring] Lead Frontend Technical Architect @HireLATAM

Role Description

Our Client is looking for a Lead Frontend Technical Architect to own and drive frontend architecture across multiple development pods. This role combines strategic technical leadership with hands-on engineering, ensuring frontend applications are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with broader technology and business objectives.

The ideal candidate is an experienced frontend architect who can:

• Establish consistent engineering standards
• Guide technical decision-making
• Collaborate across architecture and development teams
• Actively contribute to complex implementations
• Improve application performance, engineering quality, developer productivity, and the overall user experience

Responsibilities

• Frontend Architecture & Technical Strategy
  • Own and drive the frontend technical architecture, ensuring applications are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with the overall technology direction.
  • Define and promote consistent frontend architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and development practices across all pods.
  • Work closely with Tech Leads and Pod Leads to establish frontend best practices and consistent approaches to solving technical challenges.
  • Review and challenge technical designs and proposed solutions, ensuring they meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify solutions, reduce complexity, and introduce more effective ways of building frontend applications.
  • Evaluate emerging frontend technologies, frameworks, and tools, recommending solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Hands-On Development & Technical Leadership
  • Remain hands-on with frontend development, contributing to complex implementations and resolving challenging technical issues.
  • Lead technical spikes and proof-of-concepts (POCs) to investigate complex problems, validate approaches, and recommend appropriate technical solutions.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to Tech Leads and developers, helping teams make sound technical decisions and follow agreed architectural standards.
  • Review code, troubleshoot issues, and share technical knowledge while leading by example and raising engineering quality across pods.
  • Support the investigation and resolution of critical production issues, collaborating across teams to identify root causes and implement long-term fixes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Integration
  • Collaborate with Backend Architects and Tech Leads to understand frontend/backend dependencies, define API contracts, and address integration challenges early.
  • Work with Tech Leads to translate business requirements into practical, achievable frontend solutions that support the intended user experience.
  • Partner with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Backend Architects, and DevOps teams to ensure frontend solutions align with broader architecture and integration standards.
• Performance, Quality & Security
  • Drive frontend performance improvements, focusing on application load times, rendering, responsiveness, caching, and overall user experience.
  • Define and promote frontend testing best practices across unit, integration, component, and end-to-end testing.
  • Ensure quality is incorporated throughout the development process and that frontend security best practices are consistently followed.
  • Collaborate with security and backend teams to identify and address vulnerabilities and protect application data.
  • Define frontend monitoring and observability practices to improve visibility into application performance, errors, and production issues.
• Developer Productivity & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity through better tooling, automation, CI/CD enhancements, and AI-assisted development practices.
  • Continuously assess development practices and recommend improvements that help teams build and maintain applications more effectively.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Angular and modern frontend application architecture.
• Strong knowledge of RxJS and NgRx.
• Experience working with AWS.
• Proven experience owning frontend architecture and defining technical standards across multiple development teams or pods.
• Strong hands-on frontend development experience, including the ability to contribute to complex implementations and troubleshoot challenging technical issues.
• Experience with frontend performance optimization, testing strategies, security best practices, and application monitoring/observability.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with backend, solution, enterprise architecture, and DevOps teams.
• Strong technical leadership skills, with the ability to mentor developers and influence technical decisions across teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React.
• Experience with React Native.

Application Disclaimer: Please Read Before Proceeding

• To ensure a fair and efficient hiring process, all applications must meet the mandatory requirements listed in the job description.
• Voice/Video Recording is REQUIRED. Your application CANNOT be considered without a voice or video recording. It must be at least 30 seconds long and in English. Submissions in any other language or missing a recording will be automatically disqualified.
• Each application includes knockout questions designed to verify minimum qualifications required by the client. If you answer "NO" to any of these, you will be immediately disqualified from the hiring process for not having the experience requested for the role.
• Please note that the citizenship question is also a knockout if you answer "YES" as we are only able to hire Latin American talent based in Latin America.
• To maintain fairness, please apply to no more than three jobs and only if you fully meet the listed qualifications. Applying to roles you don’t qualify for will not improve your chances and may affect future applications.
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