UI/UA Architect - Tapestry Solutions - Miramar, CA

We have over 650 employees worldwide supporting our customers with high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective information technology and business intelligence solutions. LIMS supports 85 defense, commercial and government customers from over 50 US locations and nine countries including, multiple forward operating bases in Afghanistan.

Title: UI/UA Architect – Systems Engineer IV

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Position Summary

We are looking for a UI/UX Architect to lead UI architecture efforts for products in Tapestry Solutions. This position will be within the Architecture Team.

The Web UI Architect role provides technical leadership within the UI tier of a multi-layer application architecture. Our core UI technology is HTML5 and Angular using a Mobile First/Responsive UI approach. The architect will serve as the technical subject matter expert for all UI development spanning across multiple applications including but not limited to the web or mobile apps. This position will also work with stakeholders to understand and document software requirements and ensure applications’ UI meets functional requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Create front-end code templates using XHTML/HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and JSON/XML as well as JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS, NodeJS, jQuery, Slim and Bootstrap.
  


• Provide technical leadership to fellow engineers and designers, business analysts and other stakeholders to develop and maintain dynamic client-side web applications across all applications.
  


• Mentor other engineers and review code and designs in a senior role.
  


• Prototype and develop new ideas and participate in all parts of the lifecycle from research to release.
  


• Follow industry trends with regard to front-end technologies and techniques.
  


• Turn wireframes and visual designs into working HTML/CSS prototypes.
  


• Develop and optimize front-end UI to ensure web applications are rendered consistently in cross-browser environments.
  


• Front-end web developer/architect experience
  


• Demonstrable work using responsive design principles.
  


• Proven experience developing against a multitude of modern MV*/MVC frameworks and libraries like Angular, Bootstrap, Slim and NodeJS.
  


• Extensive experience consuming RESTful web services.
  


• Strong working experience with Agile development methodology in real world projects.
  


• Good interpersonal skills and experience communicating with and managing the expectations of both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  


• Must be able to write clean, scalable, standards-compliant, reusable, quality code with strong knowledge of OO design.
  


• Advanced knowledge of HTML5, Mobile First / Responsive UI.
  


• Familiarity with current development tools such as Jenkins, SVN, Maven, Nexus, SonarQube.
  


• Experience with unit testing, especially test-driven development (TDD).
  


• Must be a self-starter with a “can do” attitude who can take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.
  


• Must be detail and results oriented with excellent problem solving abilities.
  


• Demonstrated passion for user experience design and improving usability.
  


• Experience with Java preferred.
  

Typical Education and/ or Experience Qualifications:

Degree and typical experience in engineering classification Bachelor’s and 9 or more years’ experience. Master’s with 7 or more years’ experience