UI Architect Onshore / Tech Lead

The UX/UI Architect is responsible for the end-to-end modernization of the VMAD Portal user experience. This role leads Discovery, drives alignment across UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Front-End Engineering teams, and is accountable for the technical quality of all UI deliverables. The role establishes the patterns, specifications, and implementation standards used to accelerate delivery through AI-assisted development while ensuring consistency, maintainability, performance, and usability across the platform.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the UX/UI modernization effort from Discovery through UAT and production readiness.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering teams to understand current-state functionality and define modernization objectives.

• Analyze legacy application architecture, user workflows, database relationships, APIs, integration patterns, and technical dependencies.

• Drive alignment between Hero Journeys, business requirements, technical constraints, implementation patterns, and delivery objectives.

• Define and maintain specification schemas including attributes, types, required/optional elements, defaults/constraints, inheritance/composition patterns used by developers to refine specification patterns into AI-ready inputs for Devin Desktop or equivalent approved tooling.

• Establish specification patterns used for screens, workflows, APIs, integrations, security, environments, and shared platform capabilities.

• Create initial implementation specifications based on approved Hero Journeys and modernization objectives.

• Review and approve specification updates throughout delivery.

• Define the Angular 21 application architecture, repository structure, component model, routing standards, API integration patterns, security patterns, and development standards used throughout the modernization effort.

• Create foundational application scaffolding and reusable implementation patterns used by engineering teams.

• Define environment requirements and architecture specifications for Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.

• Establish standards for reusable components, shared services, application structure, and integration approaches.

• Deliver the Single Pipeline Scaffold POC with Minimal Screen Display based on an approved Hero Journey and supported by mock data and mock services.

• Validate the modernization approach from Hero Journey through specification, implementation, API integration, and UI presentation.

• Establish baseline implementation patterns used for subsequent screen and workflow modernization activities.

• Coordinate UX Research, UX Design, Business Analysis, Data Engineering, Java Engineering, and Angular Engineering activities to ensure alignment between Hero Journeys, specifications, APIs, implementation patterns, and modernization objectives.

• Resolve architecture, design, integration, security, and implementation issues.

• Support Delivery, Hardening, Security Testing, Performance Testing, SIT, and UAT activities.

• Approve production deployment packages and release readiness activities.

• Leverage AI-assisted tooling to support code review, technical validation, troubleshooting, and specification compliance verification activities.

• Review and approve all pull requests.

• Ensure implementation aligns with approved specifications, architecture standards, security requirements, performance requirements, and user experience objectives.

• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction throughout delivery.
  
  

Required Skills:

• Enterprise application modernization

• User journey-driven design

• Angular architecture

• Component architecture

• Responsive web applications

• Information architecture

• Application integration architecture

• Design system implementation

• Angular 21

• TypeScript

• JavaScript

• HTML5

• CSS3 / SCSS

• Angular Material

• RxJS

• REST APIs

• OpenAPI 3.0

• Git

• Azure DevOps

• Azure, AWS, or similar cloud technologies

• Specification-driven development

• Pull request review and approval

• AI-assisted code review and validation

• Specification compliance verification

• Repository design

• Application scaffolding

• Reusable component frameworks

• API integration patterns

• Authentication and authorization concepts

• Secure application development

• Technical leadership and mentoring
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Java 17 and Spring Boot architectures

• Cybersecurity domain experience

• Vulnerability management platforms

• Security analytics applications

• Enterprise dashboard design

• Risk management platforms

• OCSF familiarity

• Security graph concepts

• Exposure management platforms

• Financial services experience

• AI-assisted software development workflows

• Devin Desktop or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling experience
  
  

Experience:

• 10 years enterprise application architecture and development experience.

• 5 years leading UI modernization or enterprise portal transformation initiatives.

• 3 years defining application architecture, implementation patterns, or engineering standards consumed by delivery teams.

• Experience building and architecting Angular enterprise applications.

• Experience modernizing legacy platforms using Angular 21 and contemporary web application patterns.

• Experience leading geographically distributed delivery teams preferred.

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale application modernization programs preferred.

Must have skills:

• Enterprise application modernization

• User journey-driven design

• Angular architecture

• Component architecture

• Responsive web applications

• Information architecture

• Application integration architecture

• Design system implementation

• Angular 21

• TypeScript

• JavaScript

• HTML5

• CSS3 / SCSS

• Angular Material

• RxJS

• REST APIs
  
  

Good to have skills:

• Familiarity with Java 17 and Spring Boot architectures

• Cybersecurity domain experience

• Vulnerability management platforms

• Security analytics applications

• Enterprise dashboard design

• Risk management platforms

• OCSF familiarity

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $54.55/hour - $85.24/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $55 - $85