FrontEnd Architect

Company Description

Publicis Global Delivery (PGD); Publicis Groupe’s industry leading globally connected capability platform. Where talent, technology & operations combine to delivery amazing solutions for our clients. Expertise across Media, Data, Technology, Commerce & Production in all regions of the world. 

PGD is comprised of the best talent, and ways-of-working, which enables global scale, innovation and transformation, each day.

Culture, growth and wellbeing underline all aspects of Publicis Global Delivery.

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Overview

 

The Experience Technology Architect (ETA) is responsible for designing and writing code, performing code reviews, developing technical documentation, and becoming a key contributor to their team and project. A ETA acts as a technical leader in projects, ensuring that the team maintains high performance levels, and builds and strengthens the relationship with the client.

 

The role may be responsible for the technical delivery of a small to medium-sized project or working as part of a larger team and owning one or more sub-systems. In either case, the Front-end Architect directs the activities of more junior developers and may often work directly with mid-level clients.

 

The ETA oversees presentations to clients, directly working with other groups such as Creative, Business, and Technology. The ETA should aim to become a subject matter expert in front-end technologies.

Responsibilities

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

6-10 years

 

EXPERIENCE LEADING TEAMS:

3+ years

 

KEY FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

 

• Owns the technical architecture and design of the web solution and oversees the front-end development activities, when acting as the technical leader
• Gather new user and business requirements, map them to appropriate technical solutions, and estimate the associated development tasks.
• Ensure concise and clear documentation is maintained by all peers for the projects as dictated by each capability’s guidelines and best practices.
• Own software release activities, including but not limited to reviewing code changes, client demos, QA hand-offs, and presenting solutions and justifications for tasks.
• Debug or troubleshoot complex or critical issues that cannot be handled by junior positions and provide root cause analysis.
• Establish project scaffolding and associated automation tools for the project.
• Work closely with Creative, Business, Technology, and QA teams to ensure quality and punctual web development.
• Supports definition of testing strategies
• Directs coding activities for implementation of features and resolution of technical issues.
• Establishes syntactic coding standards and implements processes and enforcement controls for project code base.
• Performs code and pull request reviews to ensure quality and provides feedback, mentorship, and general direction to larger teams.
• Troubleshoots technical issues, performs root cause analysis, and participates in mitigation activities to avoid recurrence.
• Provide feedback on policies and procedures when an opportunity for improvement exists.
• Identifies and produces relevant architecture documentation.
• Makes recommendations for approaches related to communication between client and server layers, be they RESTful or schema-based.
• Defines component or object level interface or functional inputs and outputs.

Qualifications

MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS:

 

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 8 years’ experience working exclusively with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript).
• Expert knowledge of recent development patterns and practices (Mobile First, MVC, Object Oriented development).
• Expert knowledge of integrating front-end development with several common back-end technologies (.Net, Java, PHP, Ruby) and third-party platforms.
• Proficiency with popular JavaScript frameworks and cross-browser compatibility.
• Proven track record as a technical team leader.
• Enterprise Architecture, Agile methodology, Cloud, DevOps.

 

REQUIRED SKILLS

 

• Testing & Debugging.
• Load and Performance Principles.
• Estimation of Tasks, Efforts, and Complexity.
• Pull Request and Code Reviews Process.
• Web Architecture Design.
• Implementation and Deployment.
• Version control systems.
• Architectural Patterns.
• Modern Front-End Languages.
• Syntactic Coding Standards, Processes, and Enforcement Control for Project Code Base.