About the Role
Title: Frontend/UX Architect
Location: Work from Home, United States
Time type: Full time
Job Description:
FICO (NYSE: FICO)is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
The Opportunity
“This is a pivotal technical leadership role within FICO’s Architecture Team, where you will be integral in driving the adoption of modern front-end development practices and ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across the platform. Building on the foundation of our complex, large-scale enterprise architecture, you will be the driving force behind unifying and modernizing our front-end teams. You will collaborate closely with product managers, product designers, and multiple engineering teams to define reusable MFEs, streamline workflows, and implement robust solutions that enhance both user satisfaction and developer productivity across FICO.” – Sr Director-Technical Architecture
What You’ll Contribute
- Define and champion the platform frontend architecture, adhering to the FICO Design System and best practices.
- Work with stakeholders to comprehend and provide feedback on business strategy and requirements.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to understand the priorities of platform features.
- Collaborate closely with the Product Design Team to translate design specifications into robust and performant Angular implementations.
- Collaborate with the Product Design Team to create and maintain UX information architecture models to ensure a clear and intuitive user journey across the platform.
- Collaborate with other architects to drive micro front-end architecture for the platform.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Product Designers, and Backend Engineers to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Collaborate with technology suppliers to address FICO’s technology needs.
- Collaborate with other Software Architects on creating their domain architectures.
- Communicate technical challenges, solutions, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Act as a technical liaison between the Front-end Team and other departments, ensuring smooth collaboration across all levels.
- Represent the Front-end Team in leadership discussions, aligning technical direction with broader organizational goals.
- Advocate for and implement modern architectural patterns such as micro-frontends and server-side rendering (SSR).
- Drive research, case studies, and prototypes on technologies to ensure the platform remains the leading analytic decisioning platform.
- Collaborate with and lead working groups of Enterprise Architects to create enterprise platform standards, guidance, and processes.
- Continuously improve architectural practices for the platform to support efficiency, reliability, usability, and serviceability goals.
What We’re Seeking
- 10+ years designing, developing, and managing web-based platform systems using modern frameworks like Angular.
- Experience in designing, building, and operating large systems with scalability, availability, and performance requirements.
- Expert-level proficiency with reactive programming with a deep understanding of state management in complex front-end architectures.
- Ability to define and drive architectural transformation to an end state that is based on simplicity, modern software design patterns, and open-source software.
- Experience with domain-driven, event-driven, and micro-frontend architectures.
- Experience in building, tracking, and communicating plans within Agile processes.
- Experience creating, documenting, and communicating software architectures for complex products is nice to have.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring both individuals and teams.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.