Front End Architect

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Posted 12 hours ago • Apply by June 7, 2026

Job Description

Senior Front End Architect (React)

Northern Ireland

Hybrid working model

Are you passionate about Front End? Are you an innovator at heart and keen to utilise AI?

Our growing client are a growing software product company. This is a new permanent role for a Senior Front End professional. This will be based in their growing Northern Ireland operation and be a key appointment for their Central Technology function.

You Will Play a Key Part In

Building and evolving a shared design system and component libraries
Enabling consistency and performance across multiple product teams
Elevating frontend engineering standards across the organisation
Strengthening frontend DevOps, CI/CD, and observability practices
Driving intelligent adoption of AI in frontend engineering workflows

This role requires strong technical depth, systems thinking, and a product mindset

Key Activities

Platform & Design System Engineering

Architect, build, and maintain reusable React component libraries
Implement and evolve a scalable design system aligned with Figma and product design
Define frontend standards, accessibility practices, and performance budgets
Ensure consistency across multiple products while supporting flexibility
Provide guidance and enablement to product teams integrating platform components

Frontend Architecture

Design scalable frontend architectures across multiple applications
Champion modern React patterns (hooks, context, server components where applicable)
Guide adoption of TypeScript best practices
Lead discussions around state management, routing, and micro-frontend strategies where relevant

DevOps & Operational Excellence

Design and maintain frontend CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions or similar)
Implement automated testing strategies (unit, integration, e2e)
Improve build performance and developer experience

AI-Enabled Engineering

Proactively explore and adopt AI tools to improve:

Code quality
Test generation
PR review
Refactoring and documentation

Champion safe and secure use of AI in a regulated environment
Contribute to internal standards for AI-assisted development

Cross-Team Enablement

Mentor engineers across product teams
Contribute to architectural governance and frontend strategy

Does this sound like you?

6+ years of frontend engineering experience
4+ years of professional React experience in production systems
Strong TypeScript expertise
Experience building and maintaining shared component libraries
Experience integrating with design systems (Figma-based workflows)
Experience in multi-product or enterprise-scale environments
Strong understanding of:

Web performance optimisation
Accessibility (WCAG)
Secure frontend development practices

Hands-on experience with CI/CD for frontend applications
Experience with frontend monitoring and observability tooling
Strong Git and PR workflow experience

If you would like additional information on this opportunity please contact Stephen Ingram directly on

Contact: 028 90 997720

Email : [email protected]