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Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries including banking & financial services insurance retail higher education food healthcare and manufacturing.
Job Title: Front-End Architect (React / Angular)
Experience: 1215 years
Location: Pune
We are seeking an experienced Front-End Architect to lead the design development and implementation of scalable high-performance and user-centric web applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks (React or Angular) front-end architecture design UI/UX best practices and a solid understanding of integration with back-end services and DevOps processes.
Key Responsibilities:
Architectural Leadership:
Define and own the front-end architecture roadmap ensuring scalability performance maintainability and security across all applications.
Technical Design:
Design modular reusable and optimized UI components using Angular or similar frameworks.
Define component libraries micro front-end strategies and shared UI frameworks for cross-project consistency.
Collaboration:
Partner with Product Owners UX Designers Backend Architects and DevOps teams to define and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Code Quality & Governance:
Enforce coding standards design patterns (e.g. MVVM Redux Flux or NgRx) and ensure adherence to best practices through code reviews and CI/CD pipelines.
Performance Optimization:
Identify performance bottlenecks memory leaks and render inefficiencies; implement optimizations like lazy loading code splitting caching and CDN usage.
Security & Compliance:
Integrate secure coding practicesimplement CSP XSS prevention and OWASP guidelines for front-end applications.
Tooling & Automation:
Evaluate recommend and integrate front-end build tools such as Webpack Vite Babel and ESLint and establish automated testing pipelines using Jest Cypress or Playwright.
Mentorship & Guidance:
Coach and mentor front-end engineers conduct technical sessions and drive continuous improvement in development processes.
Integration Expertise:
Work closely with backend teams using RESTful APIs ensure smooth data exchange and optimize API consumption patterns.
DevOps & CI/CD Integration:
Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration of front-end code in pipelines using Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Technical Skills & Competencies:
Core Front-End Technologies:
Expert in HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript (ES6) TypeScript
Deep experience with (Hooks Context API Redux Toolkit) or Angular 10 (RxJS NgRx Dependency Injection)
Architecture & Design:
Experience in Micro Front-End Architecture Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Static Site Generation (SSG) and Single Page Application (SPA) design
Proficiency in component-driven architecture and design systems (e.g. Storybook Material UI Tailwind Chakra UI)
Performance & Optimization:
Strong understanding of Lighthouse Web Vitals and performance monitoring tools
Knowledge of lazy loading bundle optimization and progressive rendering
Testing & Quality Assurance:
Hands-on with Jest Enzyme Cypress Playwright and React Testing Library
Experience in unit integration and end-to-end testing
Version Control & CI/CD:
Proficiency with Git Azure DevOps Bitbucket GitHub and automated pipelines
Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments
Security & Accessibility:
Implementing WCAG standards ARIA roles and a11y best practices
Understanding of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in front-end applications
Other Desirable Skills:
Exposure to or NestJS for full-stack capability
Knowledge of Cloud-native front-end deployment (Azure AWS or GCP)
Familiarity with Design Thinking and Agile methodologies
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field
Proven track record in delivering enterprise-grade front-end solutions
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Front end Certifications - Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate / Microsoft Front-End Developer Professional Certificate:
Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree (Udacity / Coursera)
Required Skills:
Angular/ReactHTML CSS JavascriptTypescript
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