Principal Frontend Architect

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey | Job type: Contract | Hours: 8am to 5pm

About the Role

Execute the overall UI strategy for the Correspondence Hub platform. Establish and govern enterprise-wide UI architecture, design standards, reusable components, and development patterns. Ensure a cohesive, intuitive, and consistent user experience across multiple capabilities developed by different teams. Drive adoption of common UI frameworks, design systems, accessibility standards, and development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of large-scale enterprise portals hosting multiple business capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and architectural direction for applications built using:
  • ReactJS
  • Angular
  • Java Spring Boot APIs
  • .NET Core services
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure scalability, performance, maintainability, and security requirements are met on OpenShift Container Platform.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, UX Designers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and Development Teams.
• Influence diverse engineering teams to align with strategic UI architecture decisions and design principles.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and governance sessions to maintain consistency across implementations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for UI-related decisions and strategic direction.

Requirements

Technical Expertise

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise web platform strategy and architecture.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale enterprise portals that integrate multiple capabilities from different development teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with:
  • ReactJS
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5/CSS3
• Strong understanding of backend integration using:
  • Java Spring Boot
  • .NET Core APIs
  • RESTful services

Cloud & Platform Experience

• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting applications on OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience implementing:
  • Application logging strategies
  • Distributed tracing
  • Metrics collection
  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Alerting frameworks
• Experience with observability platforms such as:
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • AppDynamics
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams without direct authority.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance committees, and enterprise-wide modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience building enterprise design systems and reusable component libraries.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG, ADA compliance).
• Experience implementing micro-frontend architectures.
• Familiarity with enterprise correspondence, document generation, customer communication, or digital experience platforms.
• Experience working within large financial services, banking, insurance, or highly regulated environments.

Pay

$59.75 - 69.75 per hour

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• AD&D and life insurance offerings.
• Short-term disability.
• 401K plan (eligibility-based).