The Vacancy

Role Summary: The UI/UX Architect is a technical leadership role within the Platform Team, responsible for guiding teams in delivering exceptional user experiences through sound technical strategy, design systems, and implementation standards across the product suite. This role ensures a cohesive, high-quality user experience across web and mobile interfaces serving small, medium, and large enterprise customers in the HR and payroll domain.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group

As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

That’s why [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

The Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Charity / volunteering days
• Income protection insurance
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Additional discount schemes
• Cycle to work scheme

Developing your career

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success.

• Leading – Supporting our managers to be great leaders.
• Excelling – Rewarding individual excellence.
• Growing – Offering regular training and development programmes.
• Listening – Committed to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Sharing – Promoting a positive environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and communication of the UI/UX technical vision for the product suite.
• Collaborate with teams to establish UX principles, patterns, and guidelines.
• Champion user-centred design thinking across engineering teams.
• Guide teams to embed accessibility (WCAG compliance), internationalisation, and responsive design.
• Lead evaluation and recommendation of front-end technology choices.
• Drive technical strategy for the design system / component library.
• Define and evolve front-end and UX testing strategy.
• Support Engineering Leads and Senior Software Engineers on front-end and UX implementation decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience (6+ years) in software engineering with deep expertise in front-end development and UX implementation at scale.
• Proven experience leading UI/UX technical strategies across multiple product teams.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Blazor).
• Experience with mobile application frameworks (e.g., React Native, .NET MAUI, Flutter, or progressive web apps).
• Experience leading or contributing to design systems and component libraries.
• Strong understanding of front-end testing strategies and tooling (e.g., Jest, Playwright, Cypress, Storybook, Chromatic).
• Experience working within or alongside .NET / C# backend ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of API design from a front-end consumer perspective (REST, GraphQL, real-time/SignalR).
• Experience building UX for enterprise SaaS applications.
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills.

Desirable

• Experience with enterprise concerns such as multi-tenancy, white-labelling, RBAC-driven UI.
• Familiarity with UX research methods.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for front-end artefacts.
• Knowledge of performance optimisation techniques.
• Experience mentoring front-end engineering capability.
• Understanding of design tooling ecosystems (Figma, design tokens).

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