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
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