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.

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.

MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS:

- BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Aprox 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.

📌 Lead Front-End Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Publicis Global Delivery (PGD)
📍 Colombia