React Architect

As a React Architect at Persistent Systems, you will take a lead role in the build and delivery of digital experiences for a variety of clients and solutions across desktop, tablet, mobile and various technologies that are engaging, insightful, and intelligent. Defining best practice approaches on a project, client and departmental basis. You will work with other senior creatives to actively pursue new business through your extensive and in-depth industry knowledge. You should continually identify emerging trends and position the interactive team to take full advantage of them. You will also work closely with local technical and design leadership to deliver solutions that are not only complex and large-scale but also industry changing and truly transformative in nature.

What Youll Do

• Work with other team members and liaise with nominated business stakeholders when required to ensure that business requirements are fully understood before commencing design and development
• Implement best-of-breed technical solutions based on agreed technical design, adopting industry standard development patterns and methodologies (including continuous integration and automated unit and integration testing.)
• Test fully implemented solutions in advance of User Acceptance Testing
• Assist (when required) with the deployment of components to development and test environments

Expertise Youll Bring

• Experience: Tech Lead (Team Leader) background and working with UX designers
• Continuous Delivery methods, including TDD and automated testing (including non-functional testing)
• Working on front end layers / tiers of the project with rich UI
• Front end testing frameworks like Jest, Jasmine and Karma etc
• Designing responsive GUI for Desktop and Mobile based applications
• Designing Digital product in the Banking space
• Working in a front-office environment in an investment bank is an added advantage
• Knowledge:
• HTML5, CSS3 and CSS-processors like SASS, less etc.
• JavaScript, Typescript, React.js.
• Additional skills:
• Excellent communication interpersonal skills
• Ability to work comfortably both within a team and independently as required
• Flexible approach to delivery responsibility