Sr UI Architect Job at GE Vernova in Bellevue

Job Description Summary

The role entails technical and architectural leadership of the GridOS Design System platform team, focusing on development of a composable UI architecture, no-code/low-code configuration driven experiences, micro-frontends, and next generation web/mobile technologies.

The role combines strategic architectural leadership with hands-on implementation, ensuring our UI ecosystem is scalable, high-performing, and future ready.

Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Define and champion the UI architecture for web-based and mobile apps for the electric utility industry
• Be responsible for providing technical and architectural leadership; defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment – with a special focus on composable UIs, micro-frontends, and design system integration
• Build and maintain core UI frameworks and component libraries (Angular)
• Partner with backend and Data Fabric teams to optimize GraphQL API consumption from a UI perspective that ensures scalability and performance
• Provide guidance to developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Capture system level requirements and develop end-to-end architecture from a UI perspective by brainstorming with CTO, Sr. Architects, UX Researchers, Businesses & Product Managers
• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce next-generation UI technologies aligned to business goal.
  
  Leads impact assessment, needed PoCs, design /architectural considerations and implementation strategy.
• Prototype new architectures and frameworks to validate technical feasibility.
• Subject matter expert in processes and methodologies with ability to adapt and improvise in various situations.
  
  Expert in navigating through ambiguity and prioritizing conflicting asks.
• Expert level skills in design, architecture and development, with an ability to document and diagram architectural decisions and direction while taking a deep dive of the implementation and adoption aspects
• Leads the architecture and design efforts across integration of various products that blend into a single and delightful user experience for end users
• Establish UI design patterns, coding standards, contribution and governance models
• Partner with application teams to guide architectural decisions, code reviews, and best practices
• Work closely with UX designers to ensure seamless integration between design and implementation
• Mentor engineers on UI architecture, performance, and responsive design techniques
• Identify and resolve UI performance bottlenecks across devices and browsers
• Implement strategies for lazy evaluation, lazy loading, code splitting, caching, and asset optimization
• Ensure WCAG compliance and accessibility standards are met

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 10 years of experience

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Expertise in OO Design, Development, and Design Patterns.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, React.js, React Native (or similar frameworks).
• Proven experience with micro-frontend architecture and composable UI patterns.
• Expertise in responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and mobile-first development.
• Hands-on experience integrating GraphQL with front-end frameworks.
• Understanding of design systems and scalable component library management.
• Strong grasp of performance tuning techniques for web/mobile applications.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Next.js, Webpack Module Federation, or similar bundling strategies.
• Knowledge of server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) approaches.
• Familiarity with state management solutions like Redux, Recoil, or Zustand.
• Experience in platform-level UI component delivery for multiple application teams.
• Knowledgeable about developments in UX in various contexts, businesses, and industries.
  
  Quantifies effectiveness of design choices by gathering data.
  
  Drives accountability and adoption.
  
  Publishes guidance and documentation to promote adoption of design.
  
  Proposes design solutions based on research and synthesis; creates general design principles that capture the vision and critical concerns for a program.

Business Acumen:

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps.
  
  Maps technology trends to internal vision.
  
  Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition.
  
  Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
  
  Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs.
  
  build solution.
  
  Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI).
  
  Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance.
  
  Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses.
  
  Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and behind the scenes support for ideas.
  
  Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
  
  Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications.
  
  Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
  
  Understands when change is needed.
  
  Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
  
  Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills.
  
  Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.
  
  Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal.
  
  Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE Vernova.
  
  Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly.
  
  Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).