User Interface Architect

Position Summary: A client of Insight Global is seeking a Front End UI Architect to define and govern the architecture of scalable, high-performing, accessible customer experiences across digital commerce channels. This role will establish frontend standards, guide React and Next.js modernization, evolve Micro Frontend and design-system strategies, and ensure teams deliver consistent, maintainable, and resilient user experiences. The architect will partner with Product, UX, Enterprise Architecture, engineering, QA, SRE, security, analytics, and platform teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions.

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the target-state frontend architecture and multi-year modernization roadmap for Tractor Supply digital commerce experiences.
• Own architectural decisions across React, TypeScript, Next.js, server rendering, React Server Components, hydration, routing, state management, caching, and frontend integration patterns.
• Establish and govern Micro Frontend architecture, including domain boundaries, composition, shared dependencies, deployment independence, versioning, and operational ownership.
• Create reference architectures, solution patterns, architectural decision records, standards, and guardrails that delivery teams can apply consistently.
• Define performance architecture and budgets for Core Web Vitals, rendering, JavaScript execution, image delivery, caching, and third-party scripts; lead diagnosis of systemic performance issues.
• Embed accessibility, SEO, privacy, security, observability, resiliency, and operational readiness into frontend designs from the start.
• Mentor frontend leads and engineers, facilitate architecture reviews, and build alignment across multiple product teams, vendors, and enterprise platforms.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to standardize CI/CD, quality gates, automated testing, telemetry, release strategies, and production support practices.

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of frontend or software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a frontend, UI, solution, or platform architecture role.
• Expert-level knowledge of React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser APIs, responsive design, and modern web-platform capabilities.
• Deep experience with Next.js and rendering architectures including SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, React Server Components, client rendering, and hydration tradeoffs.
• Experience with state and data-management approaches such as Redux Toolkit, React Query, Context API, GraphQL clients, and event-based communication.
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to engineers, product partners, executives, and cross-functional stakeholders through diagrams, decision records, and executive-ready recommendations

Preferred Experience (Plusses):

• Large-scale retail or e-commerce platforms with high traffic, complex merchandising, personalization, search, cart, checkout, or order-management journeys.
• Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, or comparable content, experimentation, and analytics platforms.
• Performance and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, or Application Insights.
• Cloud-native, edge-compute, CDN, feature-flag, experimentation, and progressive-delivery patterns.
• Experience modernizing legacy frontend estates while protecting business continuity and enabling incremental delivery. xhqgsiq
• Agile product delivery in a matrixed enterprise environment with internal teams and strategic delivery partners.