Lead Web Front-end Engineer

Role Description

The Lead Web Front-end Engineer is responsible for building and evolving Sedgwick’s enterprise web content management system with a primary focus on theme architecture, reusable components, accessibility, and performance. This role leverages modular systems to deliver consistency, structured customization, and flexibility at scale.

As a member of our Web team, the Lead Web Front-end Engineer partners closely with the web team members, UX/UI Designers, Analytics, and DevOps stakeholders to ensure the site remains performant, accessible, scalable, and resilient as our business grows and thereby with it, content volume and complexity scales.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Web Development, Digital Media, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related technical field from an accredited college or university preferred; equivalent practical experience in front-end engineering, enterprise CMS architecture, accessibility, and performance optimization may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Eight (8) years of professional front-end development experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Demonstrated experience building custom website themes, block systems, and reusable component libraries within enterprise-scale content platforms (WordPress preferred).
• Proven experience delivering accessible, high-performance front-end experiences while supporting campaign-driven websites and collaborating with DevOps or platform teams in a CI/CD environment.
• Deep expertise in HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of component-based front-end development patterns and modular design systems.
• Solid understanding of Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse performance metrics.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and inclusive design best practices.
• Ability to work independently while providing technical leadership and guidance to the web marketing team.
• Knowledge of SEO fundamentals and digital analytics platforms (Google Analytics) a plus.
• Exposure to international or multilingual website implementations.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

Requirements

• Develops and manages the web content management system theme architecture, block systems, and component library.
• Develops and maintains reusable, standards-based components that support campaign landing pages, evergreen content, and international content.
• Ensures front-end implementations scale cleanly as content volume increases.
• Partners closely with UX/UI designers to bring page designs to life.
• Builds front end experiences that meet Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse performance targets.
• Optimizes rendering, image handling, script loading, and layout stability.
• Partners with Analytics stakeholders to respond to performance regressions and prevent recurrence through improved patterns and guardrails.
• Ensures compliance with all frontend work meeting WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
• Embeds accessibility best practices into component design and development workflows.
• Validates compliance and remediates issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Collaborates with Web Producers to ensure components are easy to use, hard to misuse, and consistent with brand and UX standards.
• Provides technical guidance to internal and external partners both verbal and written.
• Reviews frontend contributions from external partners to ensure adherence to platform standards.
• Ensures release readiness by assessing front-end changes for performance and accessibility risk.
• Partners with the Web Platform Engineer on CI/CD coordination.
• Contributes to platform documentation, standards, and front-end components.

Benefits

• Work-life balance.
• Caring culture.
• Opportunity for career growth.