Job Title:
Lead-Software Engineering-UI/UX
Job Description:
Lead Engineer (UI/UX)
Location: Pune, India
Experience: 10+ years
Role Type: Full-time | Lead, IT Software Engineering (UI/UX) (L4)
About The Role
We are seeking a
UI/UX Lead to establish and govern a scalable UI/UX foundation across our enterprise products. This role will lead the creation and adoption of a
shared component library and design system, working closely with the
HCD team to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences. You will also create
template GitHub repositories and reference implementations that internal teams and vendors can extend, enabling rapid delivery without compromising standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Co-Own the UI platform strategy, including the company's design system, component library, and UI standards.
- Partner with the HCD team to translate experience principles into design tokens, components, and interaction patterns.
- Govern designtocode workflows using tools such as Figma and component documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook).
- Define and maintain UI playbooks, usage guidelines, and contribution standards for internal teams and vendors.
- Build and manage template GitHub repositories that integrate approved components, layouts, and design patterns.
- Establish governance processes including design reviews, UI audits, and quality gates.
- Ensure accessibility, usability, and visual consistency across all vendordelivered UI.
- Drive adoption and correct usage of the component library through documentation, examples, and enablement.
- Review vendor and internal deliverables for alignment with design system and HCD intent.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in UI engineering, frontend platform, or design system development.
- Proven experience building and governing a component library and/or design system used across multiple applications.
- Strong handson experience with modern frontend framework React.
- Strong experience collaborating with design teams using Figma (or equivalent) as the source of design truth.
- Handson experience with component documentation tools such as Storybook or similar.
- Strong understanding of design tokens, theming, component APIs, and versioning.
- Experience creating engineering playbooks, UI guidelines, or standards documentation.
- Experience creating and maintaining template or starter repositories for scalable development.
- Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and UI quality best practices.
- Strong collaboration experience working with design/HCD teams, backend engineers, and QA.
Preferred Skills
- Exposure to Vaadin (Java framework) or willingness to learn its UX.
- Experience operating a UI governance or contribution model (RFCs, approvals, release processes).
- Familiarity with monorepos, package publishing, and semantic versioning.
- Experience supporting vendorbased development models.
- Knowledge of microfrontend architectures or multiapplication UI ecosystems.
- Exposure to enterprise authentication patterns (SSO, OAuth2, OIDC) from a UI perspective.
- Experience with frontend performance optimization and observability.
- Familiarity with frontend build tools, linting, automated testing, and accessibility tooling.
- Experience working in enterprise or platformfocused environments.
Soft Skills
- Strong governance and ownership mindset with attention to longterm platform health.
- Ability to align design vision and engineering execution.
- Excellent stakeholder management and crossteam collaboration skills.
- Comfortable setting standards and enforcing them pragmatically.
- Strong mentoring and coaching approach.
- Detailoriented with a focus on quality, consistency, and usability.
- Proactive, structured, and systemsthinking oriented.
