Associate Tech Specialist

Front-End UI Technical Architect

Washington, DC – Onsite MUST have Micro Front-End experience

The roles & responsibilities include the following:

• Lead front-end UI technical components for project Libra, collaborate with stakeholders to define UI architecture, considering scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
• Communicate critical UI design choices, specify requirements and constraints for design and implementation, and provide input for scoping the level effort for the project.
• Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
• Advise on designing micro front-end patterns, ensuring seamless integration across components and services
• Define UI strategies for new features and components, assessing if rollout plans are safe, progressive, and reversible.
• Champion micro front-end architecture.
• Break down monolithic UIs into smaller, independently deployable units.
• Coordinate communication and data sharing between micro front-ends.
• Familiarization with Asynchronous Service Patterns
• In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
• Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
• Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.
• Create UI pattern libraries that can be shared across products.
• Ensure adherence to established UI guidelines and standards.
• Profile and optimizing front-end performance.
• Implement best practices for minimizing JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
• Address bottlenecks related to rendering, data fetching, and resource loading.
• Contribute to the development of a body of generally applicable UI frameworks, methods, procedures, and deliverables.
• Utilize REST API invocation via libraries such as Axios etc. and familiar with patterns such as promises
• Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
• Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
• Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.
• Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
• Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.
• Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
• Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation.
• Mentor UI engineers, guiding them on best practices.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.
• Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.
• Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.
• Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.
• Understanding of security best practices and standards.
• Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.
• Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments, integration platforms, data flows, application inventories, entity-relationships, and process workflows.
• Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.
• Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same.
• Work with other enterprise architecture team to align various solutions architecture to enterprise standard, reference architecture, patterns, and best practices.
• Identify technology trends which have the potential for the World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms and/or hosting solutions.
• Develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise, to enable business strategy and deliver business outcomes.

Skills / Experience Required

• About 8+ years of experience in architecting micro front-end development and solutions on React
• Proven track record of building large-scale, production-grade UI applications
• Proficiency in React.js and related technologies
• Familiarity with micro front-end patterns (e.g., single-spa, module federation)
• Strong understanding of responsive design principles.
• Proficiency in at least one wireframing/prototyping tool (e.g., Axure, Omnigraffle).
• Command over DOM manipulation and performance optimization.
• Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
• Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Staying informed about emerging front-end technologies and trends.
• Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms and services in an enterprise environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor design).
• Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development initiatives.
• Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud integration.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., using AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager).
• Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).
• Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting changes to development, testing, deployment, migration/transformation, and configuration management processes consistent with a DevOps approach.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define technology roadmaps and evaluate total-cost-of-ownership of solutions.
• Experience evaluating cloud service designs and alternatives to achieve desired balance of performance, risk, and cost.
• Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green, canary, rolling, draining)
• Experience managing programs and/or multiple projects, including simultaneous task assignments.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all management levels.
• Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Organized, agile, persistent, and proactive. Ability to work on multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly, self-starters and motivated, and able to work with others, and communicate effectively.
• Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
• Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup. Good writing and editing skills, with a strong command of English and an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and lively format.
• Able to take personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
• Strong experience in Modern Integration – cloud and in-premise and/or hybrid, APIs, and ESB/SOA; and Data/Dataflow governance, strategy, & implementation