Lead UI/UX Engineer (W-2 Only)

Lead UI/UX Engineer (W-2 Only)/ W-2 Only, Contract To Hire/Hybrid/Charlotte, NC Primary Responsibilities • Lead the UI/UX strategy, architecture, and design for Product Stewardship, Ingredient Stewardship, Sector Standards, and future TrueData applications, ensuring a consistent, intuitive, and scalable user experience across the platform. • Translate complex business processes and data workflows into intuitive user experiences by creating user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready designs that improve usability, user adoption, and operational efficiency. • Design stewardship-specific workflows for review queues, exception resolution, approvals, match/merge decisions, audit history, bulk updates, and AI-assisted recommendations. • Design and deliver large-scale data-intensive user experiences with advanced grids, bulk-edit workflows, search, filtering, saved views, and analytical interaction patterns. • Partner directly with data stewards and business users through discovery sessions, workflow observation, usability testing, and prototype validation to ensure the UI reflects real stewardship needs. • Develop and maintain scalable, responsive enterprise web applications using Angular, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and Angular Material, following modern front-end engineering best practices and accessibility standards (WCAG). • Design, build, and maintain reusable UI components, shared libraries, and design systems to ensure consistency, maintainability, and scalability across the TrueData platform. • Create metadata-driven or configuration-driven UI patterns that allow Product, Vendor, Client, and future domains to share a common framework while supporting domain-specific workflows. • Develop and integrate OData v4 and REST APIs to support secure, high-performance data retrieval, filtering, sorting, paging, and CRUD operations while collaborating with backend teams to optimize API performance and integration. • Collaborate with Product Managers, UX designers, Solution Architects, and Engineering teams to define requirements, refine user stories, and deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions using Agile development methodologies. • Optimize application performance, security, and usability through responsive design, efficient state management, lazy loading, code splitting, accessibility compliance, and front-end performance best practices. • Implement front-end observability, telemetry, adoption analytics, error tracking, and performance monitoring to measure usability, reliability, and steward productivity over time. • Incorporate secure enterprise application patterns including role-based access control, attribute-based access controls, auditability, and traceability of stewardship decisions. • Establish front-end architecture, coding standards, and DevOps best practices by participating in code reviews, implementing automated unit and end-to-end testing using frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Jest, Cypress, or Playwright, and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools. • Design AI-assisted user experiences that include confidence scoring, explainable recommendations, human-in-the-loop workflows, feedback loops, and governance controls while keeping business users in control of stewardship decisions. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship by promoting engineering best practices, fostering collaboration, guiding developers, and ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable, high-quality, and maintainable enterprise applications. Required Qualifications • 6–10 years of experience designing and building enterprise web applications. • Strong Angular development experience. • Strong proficiency with TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and modern front-end development practices. • Experience creating UX designs, wireframes, and interactive prototypes using Figma or other similar tools. • Experience building reusable component libraries or enterprise design systems. • Experience designing or developing complex data-intensive workflows involving advanced grids, filters, approvals, exceptions, audit trails, role-based task queues, and bulk actions. • Experience with AG Grid Enterprise or equivalent data grid frameworks including virtualization, server-side models, high-volume datasets, inline editing, and bulk updates. • Experience with NgRx, Redux, Signals, or comparable enterprise state-management architectures. • Experience integrating enterprise applications with REST APIs. • Experience designing secure enterprise applications using role-based access control, attribute-based access controls, and governed data access patterns. • Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and usability principles. • Excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with Product Managers, engineers, and business stakeholders. • Experience working in Agile delivery teams.