Objective:
We are seeking a visionary and deeply technical Frontend Architect to define the long-term technical vision and strategy for our user-facing applications.
You will be responsible for designing the foundational patterns, standards, and core components that empower multiple engineering teams to build high-quality, scalable, and cohesive user experiences.
This is a senior, hands-on, individual contributor role focused on driving architectural excellence and innovation across the entire frontend ecosystem.
About HCL Software:
HCL Software is the software business division of HCLTech, fueling the Digital+ Economy by developing, sharing, and supporting solutions in five key areas:
- Business & Industry Applications
- AI and Intelligent Operations
- Total Experience
- Data & Analytics
- Cybersecurity
These five solution areas represent massive opportunities for growth and enable total flexibility in deployment — efficiently managing data, applications, workloads, and infrastructure, leveraging our cloud options and the power of Gen AI.
About HCL Commerce:
HCL Commerce is a robust and scalable e-commerce platform that supports various business models including B2C, B2B, B2B2C, D2C, and MarketPlaces.
Known for its enterprise-grade performance, HCL Commerce offers advanced features and AI capabilities to enhance online transactions and customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Frontend Vision and Strategy: Define and drive the long-term architectural roadmap for the frontend platform, ensuring alignment with product and business goals.
- Architectural Design and Governance: Design, document, and govern scalable, cross-cutting architectural patterns and solutions (e.g., micro-frontends, state management, authentication, API consumption).
Ensure adherence to these patterns across all delivery teams.
- Build & Package Management Strategy: Architect and govern the end-to-end build, testing, and packaging strategy for all frontend applications.
Define best practices for code organization and monorepo management within Azure Repos , establish versioning (SemVer) and publishing workflows for private packages in Azure Artifacts (NPM) , and design reusable CI/CD pipeline patterns.
- Design Systems & Reusable Components: Lead the technical vision and evolution of our design system and shared component libraries, promoting reusability and consistency across all products.
- Performance, Scalability, & Accessibility Standards: Establish and enforce organization-wide standards and best practices for web performance, scalability, security, and accessibility (a11y), including setting performance budgets and defining core metrics.
- Technical Research and Innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns.
Lead proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and prototyping efforts to de-risk new technologies and demonstrate their value.
- Mentorship and Influence: Provide high-level technical guidance and mentorship to Tech Leads and senior engineers across multiple teams, acting as a key subject matter expert and decision-maker on complex technical challenges.
Qualifications
- Experience: 12+ years of hands-on software development experience, including at least 2+ years in a Frontend Architect, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership role with cross-team impact.
- Architectural Expertise: Demonstrated mastery of frontend architectural patterns, including micro-frontends, API contract design from a consumer perspective, large-scale state management strategies, and client-side authentication/authorization patterns.
- Deep Frontend Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of the modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, including a deep understanding of the trade-offs between major frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
Deep knowledge of React required.
- Design System Leadership: Proven experience designing, building, and governing a design system or shared component library used by multiple teams in a large-scale application.
- Web Performance & Accessibility (a11y): Expert-level knowledge of web performance optimization techniques, Core Web Vitals, and accessibility standards (WCAG).
Experience with performance monitoring and diagnostic tools is required.
- Leadership & Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven experience influencing without authority and driving technical alignment across multiple teams through clear documentation and presentations.
- Build, Packaging, & DevOps:
- Deep expertise in the modern build ecosystem (Vite, Webpack, tsup) and dependency management.
- Proven experience architecting and managing package distribution using private NPM registries, specifically Azure Artifacts .
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and experience designing scalable pipeline patterns, preferably with Azure Pipelines .
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with monorepo management strategies and tools (e.g., Turborepo, Nx).
- Experience with GraphQL and federated data architectures from a client perspective.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and infrastructure-as-code.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).