Senior UI Lead- Vice President

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Job Overview

The Senior UI Lead Developer (C13 Vice President) serves as the principal technical authority and offshore engineering leader for enterprise web applications, customer/internal portals, and intelligent digital platforms. This role combines deep expertise in traditional modern frontend engineering (React 18/19, TypeScript, Micro-Frontends) with cutting-edge Generative AI user interface patterns (real-time streaming tokens, conversational copilots, LLM gateway integration, agent orchestration interfaces, and interactive visualizations).

Operating with high architectural autonomy, the C13 VP is accountable for establishing technical standards, conducting rigorous architecture reviews, directing offshore sprint teams, and partnering directly with onshore Solution Architects, Product owners.

Key Responsibilities

1. Frontend Architecture & Enterprise Platform Engineering

• Architecture & Micro-Frontends: Architect, design, and implement modular, high-performance web applications using Micro-Frontend patterns).
• Design System & Standards: Drive strict governance and adoption of enterprise design systems, component libraries, and CSS architectures to ensure brand consistency and reusable UX across global programs.
• Performance & Core Web Vitals: Proactively audit, benchmark, and optimize web applications for critical rendering path,

2. Generative AI & Intelligent UI/UX Integration

• Real-Time Streaming UX: Design and build high-responsiveness user interfaces for AI copilots and assistants using Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, and chunked transfer decoding for real-time token rendering.
• LLM Gateway & Protocol Integration: Integrate frontends with enterprise AI gateways (e.g., R2D2, internal LLM proxies), handling structured JSON outputs, multi-turn conversational context, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool visualizations.
• AI-Specific User Experiences: Engineer contextual RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) review interfaces, prompt engineering playgrounds, citation/source sidebars, and interactive confidence/guardrail indicators.
• Dynamic Content & Visualization: Implement robust client-side rendering for dynamically generated Markdown, LaTeX mathematical formatting, code syntax blocks, and interactive dynamic charting (Chart.js, Recharts, D3.js, Mermaid diagrams).

3. Engineering Excellence, CI/CD & Testing

• Automated Quality Assurance: Formulate and enforce multi-layered testing strategies encompassing Unit , Component/Integration End-to-End , and Visual Regression.
• DevOps & Asset Optimization: Collaborate with DevOps teams to design optimized CI/CD build pipelines optimizing bundle sizes, code splitting, dynamic imports, and CDN caching strategies.

4. Technical Squad Leadership & Cross-Region Collaboration

• Offshore Squad Leadership: Lead and mentor engineering squads composed of junior developers.
• Code & Design Reviews: Lead technical design discussions, run rigorous code reviews, enforce strict typing/linting standards, and maintain technical documentation.
• Global Partnership: Act as the primary offshore technical conduit to onshore Product Owners, Enterprise Architects, and Business Analysts, ensuring flawless translation of business requirements into robust technical execution.

Experience & Education

• Total Experience: 10–14+ years of professional software engineering experience with a heavy emphasis on enterprise-grade web applications.
• Technical Leadership: 3+ years in a Lead Developer, Frontend Architect, or Engineering Manager capacity directing offshore/distributed engineering teams.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

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