Technical Lead/ Application Architect

BS/MS degree

The Technical Lead / Application Architect, Web Development is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for designing and developing scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise web applications. The role is approximately 75% hands-on development and 25% application architecture/technical leadership, with primary focus on Angular, TypeScript, and Node.js.

Key Responsibilities / Mandatory Skills

7-10 years of enterprise web application experience, including 3+ years in a Technical Lead or similar hands-on leadership role.

Strong hands-on expertise in Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, RxJS, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, and modern responsive web development.

Strong experience with Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs, middleware, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture.

Contribute to application architecture and lead technical design, hands-on development, implementation, troubleshooting, and production support.

Experience designing scalable frontend architectures using reusable components, modular design, UI frameworks, responsive design, accessibility, and internationalization.

Strong understanding of web security and authentication, including SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, session/cookie management, CORS, and OWASP practices.

Experience integrating web applications with enterprise APIs, microservices, cloud services, and backend platforms.

Working knowledge of AWS cloud services such as S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, and related technologies.

Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and modern DevOps/DevSecOps practices.

Provide technical leadership through architecture/design reviews, code reviews, technical decision-making, troubleshooting, and mentoring developers.

Drive engineering best practices around code quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.

Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, or similar technologies to improve engineering productivity, testing, and code quality.

Collaborate with product, UX/UI, architecture, backend, DevSecOps, security, and business teams across complex Agile programs.

Desired Skills

Experience with React and other modern JavaScript frameworks.

Experience with Kotlin and/or Java.

Familiarity with AI/LLM integration, including RAG, agentic workflows, and platforms such as AWS Bedrock or equivalent.

Experience with micro-frontends, Next.js, PWA, or similar modern web architectures.

Relevant Web, or AI certifications.

Top 5 Must-Have Skills

1. Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript & RxJS

2. Node.js, Express.js, REST APIs & BFF

3. Web Application Architecture, Security & Enterprise Integration

4. Hands-on Technical Leadership & Solution Design

5. CI/CD, Testing, DevOps & Cloud-Native Development