Platform Experience Lead

Immediate need for a talented Platform Experience Lead. This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Houston, TX(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. Job ID: 26-15463 Pay Range: $80/hr - $85/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location). Key Responsibilities Note: This role is also open for Houston, TX/ Raleigh-Durham, NC / Jersey City, N Experience Strategy and Delivery Develop and lead the experience delivery for the Acquisition Platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product strategy, and enterprise standards. Establish architectural patterns for modern UI development, including experience composition, state management, and interaction with backend PBCs. Define how experiences integrate with persistence layers to ensure consistency, resilience, and performance across channels. Ensure UI solutions are modular, reusable, and scalable to support long term platform evolution. UI Platform and Design Enablement Lead the selection and application of UI frameworks, experience platforms, and supporting tooling. Establish standards and best practices for experience development, including component reuse, design system adoption, and accessibility. Partner with UX and design teams to ensure design intent is faithfully translated into high quality, maintainable UI implementations. Promote headless and composable experience patterns where appropriate to enable flexibility and omnichannel delivery. Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement Collaborate closely with the Product Team, Product Architect, Platform Integration Lead, and Platform Engineering Lead to align experience and platform strategies. Translate experience requirements into technical approaches that balance user needs, platform constraints, and delivery velocity. Engage with cross functional teams to ensure experience solutions align with overall platform goals and enterprise architecture standards. Implementation and Development Support Guide and support delivery teams during the development and deployment of UI and experience solutions. Provide hands on technical leadership and mentorship to front end and full stack engineers. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and innovation in experience delivery. External Orientation Stay current with industry trends in UI architecture, experience platforms, and frontend engineering practices. Evaluate emerging technologies and patterns to continuously improve experience quality, performance, and maintainability. Where appropriate, validate new approaches through Proof of Concept or Proof of Value engagements. Compliance, Quality, and Security Ensure experience solutions adhere to enterprise architecture standards, security protocols, and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with security and risk teams to ensure UI and experience layers appropriately protect sensitive data and workflows. Influence the maturity of experience related standards and policies where unique needs of the Acquisition Platform exist. Leadership and Talent Development Work with IT and platform leadership to embrace contemporary ways of working and product centric delivery models. Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence within experience and development teams. Identify experience and UI skill gaps and help drive training, coaching, and capability development across the organization. Technical Skills and Competencies Modern UI & Experience Architecture principles – composable UI, micro frontends, API driven and headless experiences, separation of concerns, domain aligned experience boundaries, high cohesion and low coupling between experience and backend capabilities Design systems and component architecture – reusable component libraries, design tokens, accessibility (WCAG), responsive and adaptive design patterns State management and persistence strategies – client side and server-side state, session management, caching, optimistic updates, resilience across long running user journeys Experience platform integration – deep understanding of how UI layers integrate with backend PBCs, APIs, and event driven systems Frontend performance optimization – lazy loading, code splitting, bundle optimization, caching strategies, and rendering performance (SSR/CSR tradeoffs) UI security and data protection – secure handling of sensitive data, token management, secure API consumption patterns, protection against common frontend threats Observability for UI and experience layers – client-side telemetry, real user monitoring (RUM), distributed tracing across UI and backend interactions AI assisted development techniques – prompt engineering, design to code acceleration, and iterative co development with large language models Responsible AI use – consideration of security, data exposure, accessibility, and operational risk when applying AI assisted tooling to UI and experience development Growth oriented mindset – ability to think beyond current experience constraints and define what is required to support future channels, users, and products Excellent communication skills – ability to translate between UX/design intent, technical implementation, and product/business needs. Key Requirements and Technology Experience Strong background in modern UI frameworks, experience platforms, and API driven UI design Experience integrating UI layers with backend services, APIs, and event driven architectures Experience in financial services, insurance, or retirement services environments CDN and edge delivery strategies Cloud hosted UI platforms and headless CMS solutions Integration with cloud native API and identity platforms Experience working closely with UX, design, and accessibility teams in regulated environments 5+ years of experience in UI, frontend, or experience focused software development Proven experience guiding and mentoring junior frontend or full stack developers Strong background in modern UI frameworks, experience platforms, and API driven UI design Experience integrating UI layers with backend services, APIs, and event driven architectures Experience applying Agile methodologies in product centric delivery environments Enterprise scale delivery experience, including collaboration with both onshore and offshore cross functional teams Experience in financial services, insurance, or retirement services environments CDN and edge delivery strategies Cloud hosted UI platforms and headless CMS solutions Integration with cloud native API and identity platforms Experience working closely with UX, design, and accessibility teams in regulated environments Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr Pyramid Consulting, Inc