Front-End Architect

Digital is in our DNA. Since our founding in 1999, DEG has become one of the fastest-growing agencies in the country. A member of Dentsu, we are a global, full-service digital experience agency crafting solutions that help national and global brands meet their business objectives. While other shops are now working to grow their digital presences, we were born here.

Our associates are always evolving and finding new ways to collaborate together to solve our clients’ toughest challenges. After all, at DEG the best idea wins—no matter where it comes from.

Here, you can grow and pursue your passions, prioritize your family, contribute to your community, and actively travel. Our “work hard, play hard” mentality provides everyone with a fun, casual work environment that embraces new and better ways of doing things, and new and better things to do for our clients. The result is consistently being named one of the best places to work.

The question you must now ask is: Are you ready to evolve?

DEG, a Merkle Company is seeking a Front-End Architect to provide leadership and direction to our Digital Experience practice. As a Front-End Architect, you will own the technical design and documentation of custom-built client-side apps, websites, and tools.

The successful candidate will be a Front-End subject matter expert who can act as a technical scout to quickly align projects to solutions, identify technical risks, implement prototypes, and serve as a mentor, reference point and representative of the technical teams they work with. The Front-End Architect will Support our Sales team and Business Development Managers in the sales process by communicating with prospective clients about our processes, potential solution architectures and estimations. The Front-End Architect also co-owns internal starter kits and the design of accelerators and tools to promote reuse and adherence to industry best practices. As a Front-End Architect, you will have exceptional communication skills, a high level of accountability, and a desire to provide best in class solutions to clients.

Responsibilities

Working with sales, account, and solutions team on new business pitches and opportunities

Consult on engineering best practices, features, functionality, and architecture

Lead client and team discovery sessions to identify technical requirements

Design custom and robust Front-End applications adhering to development best practices

Document architecture decisions and communicate intent to both technical and non-technical audiences

Build proof-of-concepts to reduce risk and increase client and team buy-in

Champion organizational understanding and education of Front-End technologies

Facilitate project scoping and sales estimates

Catalog and document reusable cross-system solutions and learnings

Collaborating with other technical leaders on internal initiatives to improve methodologies and processes

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of industry experience in the design and delivery of front-end solutions
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail
• Excellent knowledge of application design and architecture
• Outstanding client-facing communication and presentation abilities
• Demonstrated understanding of delivery methodologies such as Agile and Kanban
• An interest in sharing your contributions and teaching others through team meetings, code reviews, blogging, and presenting

Preferred

• 5+ years of experience in DXP and CMS specific platforms: AEM, Sitecore, Drupal, and/or Contentful
• Experience designing and architecting Headless/MACH/JAMStack based solutions
• Experience with the Server-Client rendering spectrum and involved technologies (SSR, SSG, etc.)
• Experience with TDD and testing frameworks such as Mocha, Jest, or Jasmine
• Experience in a professional services consultancy or agency
• Prior experience with scaled and global team delivery
• Active involvement in development community

Benefits

• Multiple health plan options, including supplemental insurance and pre-tax FSAs
• Life insurance, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability plans with company-paid premium
• Ample paid time off, holidays, and flex time
• Fully paid leave for new parents, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave with financial assistance
• Additional paid-leave options, like military leave for active duty service members deployed to full-time service and disaster leave for those who experience a natural disaster affecting themselves or their immediate family
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with auto-enrollment and a company-sponsored matching program
• Bonus plans based on company and individual performance
• Culture Club social events throughout the year
• Free refreshments, including soda, juice, sparkling water, and Roasterie hot and nitro cold brew coffee in our company coffeehouse.

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

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