FRONT-END ARCHITECT

As a Front-End Architect, you’ll help lead the strategic direction and technical architecture of client user-facing solutions across complex digital ecosystems. You’ll work hands-on with modern front-end frameworks to design scalable, high-performance applications while guiding implementation from concept through deployment.
You’re not just building front ends - you’re building front-end capability and cultivating talent. You’ll drive innovation in component design, accessibility, and performance optimization, while maintaining a focus on maintainability, reusability, and long-term scalability.

• Be hands-on in project work—contributing directly across multiple projects to ensure consistency, scalability, and technical quality.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams — including UX, QA, visual design technology, delivery management, and our clients — to define front-end architecture patterns, set coding standards, and ensure seamless integration across platforms.
• Play a critical role in shaping the front-end vision and architecture for user-facing applications across our client portfolio
• You will define and enforce front-end development standards, build upon the reusable design systems and component libraries, and guide teams in delivering consistent, scalable user experiences
• Provide best practice solution details and implementation guidance using modern Javascript front-end frameworks, such as ReactJS & and Angular, to solve complex designs and interactions that reflect creative, and art direction provided
• Leverage cloud-native architecture patterns to document detailed technical specifications for assigned front-end components and integrations
• Develop, customize, and debug API-first services and extensions, conforming to best practices and Smith development standards, using NodeJS, Typescript and related technologies
• Optimize application for maximum speed, accessibility, and scalability
• Assure security best practices in front-end integration
• Be a thought leader in Front-End technologies and ecosystem
• Create and maintain documentation for front-end architectural standards, best practices, and implementation guidelines