Director – Frontend Platforms & User Experience Engineering

Vizient•Chicago, IL

2d•$135,200 - $236,600•Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise frontend platforms and UX engineering capabilities. You will define and scale modern frontend engineering practices, design systems, shared platform services, and AI-enabled development approaches that support consistent, accessible, and high-quality user experiences across a portfolio of Software as a Service (SaaS) products. You will partner with technology, product, User Experience (UX), architecture, security, operations, and client-facing leaders to balance long-term platform investments with product delivery priorities, advance engineering excellence, and improve developer productivity.

Requirements

Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree preferred.
7 or more years of relevant experience required.
Significant software engineering experience, including significant frontend engineering expertise required.
5 or more years of experience leading engineering managers and senior technical leaders required.
Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple teams required.
Proven experience building and scaling enterprise frontend platforms, design systems, shared engineering capabilities, and reusable component libraries required.
Experience leading modernization initiatives across multiple products, platforms, or business domains required.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, API-first integration, and modern software engineering practices required.
Experience with modern frontend architectures, including micro-frontends and platform-based engineering approaches required.
Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders, guide strategic decision-making, and lead organizational change.

Nice To Haves

Experience driving adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, developer productivity tools, and platform-first development approaches preferred.
Experience managing technology roadmaps, strategic investments, and vendor relationships preferred.
Experience in large-scale SaaS, enterprise software, digital transformation, healthcare technology, globally distributed engineering organizations, or platform engineering environments preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the frontend engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business, product, and technology objectives.
Lead engineering managers, architects, and frontend engineering teams across a distributed organization.
Establish frontend platform standards, governance models, and engineering practices that improve quality, consistency, scalability, and delivery speed.
Drive architectural and technology decisions across products, platforms, and business domains.
Serve as a strategic advisor to technology and business leaders on frontend platform strategy, modernization priorities, and investment decisions.
Lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of enterprise design systems, User Interface (UI) frameworks, and reusable component libraries.
Build shared frontend platforms and capabilities that accelerate product delivery, reduce duplication, and support consistent user experiences.
Partner with product and UX leaders to deliver scalable, accessible, intuitive, and client-centered digital experiences.
Champion modern frontend architectures and engineering patterns, including micro-frontends, API-first integration, event-driven systems, and edge-delivered experiences.
Establish architecture guardrails and engineering standards that balance team autonomy with enterprise consistency.
Lead modernization initiatives across existing and emerging product portfolios to improve scalability, performance, maintainability, and user outcomes.
Partner with architecture, platform engineering, data and AI, security, operations, product, and UX teams to align platform strategy, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
Develop high-performing engineering organizations through coaching, succession planning, talent development, and a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.