Frontend Architect

Frontend Architect

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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CACI is currently looking for a UI Architect with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints. 

What You’ll Get to Do:

Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI development and architecture for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with architects, business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Charting the path forward for multiple teams in how they develop user interfaces.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining reusable UI components that will be used across 20+ applications.

• Leading other UI developers in developing and maintaining common UI components and helping developers in product teams integrate components into their apps

• Finding gaps in common solutions, reconciling requirements, and proposing solutions that can fit multiple products

• Working closely with UX to determine technical feasibility of designs

• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success

• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported

• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases

• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines

• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components

• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports

• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:

  • 3 year check for felony convictions

  • 1 year check for illegal drug use

  • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline.  Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree

• Professional Experience: at least seven (7) years related technical experience, with software design, development, and implementation targeting web browsers and mobile devices.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Demonstrable expertise in our UI development tech stack: Angular, Typescript, CSS, styling & theming using Angular Material, nginx.

• In-depth knowledge of the Angular Framework (TypeScript, Angular Material, state management), as well as experience implementing UI screens from prototypes, wireframes, and/or mock-ups.

• Experience in the following programming languages/libraries: Angular, Angular Material, Typescrip