Lead-Software Engineering-UI/UX

Lead Engineer (UI/UX) 

Location: Pune, India 
Experience: 10+ years 
Role Type: Full-time | Lead, IT Software Engineering (UI/UX) (L4) 

About the Role 

We are seeking a UI/UX Lead to establish and govern a scalable UI/UX foundation across our enterprise products. This role will lead the creation and adoption of a shared component library and design system, working closely with the HCD team to ensure consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences. You will also create template GitHub repositories and reference implementations that internal teams and vendors can extend, enabling rapid delivery without compromising standards. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Co-Own the UI platform strategy, including the company’s design system, component library, and UI standards.  

• Partner with the HCD team to translate experience principles into design tokens, components, and interaction patterns.  

• Govern designtocode workflows using tools such as Figma and component documentation platforms (e.g., Storybook).  

• Define and maintain UI playbooks, usage guidelines, and contribution standards for internal teams and vendors.  

• Build and manage template GitHub repositories that integrate approved components, layouts, and design patterns.  

• Establish governance processes including design reviews, UI audits, and quality gates.  

• Ensure accessibility, usability, and visual consistency across all vendordelivered UI.  

• Drive adoption and correct usage of the component library through documentation, examples, and enablement.  

• Review vendor and internal deliverables for alignment with design system and HCD intent. 

Required Qualifications 

• 10+ years of experience in UI engineering, frontend platform, or design system development.  

• Proven experience building and governing a component library and/or design system used across multiple applications.  

• Strong handson experience with modern frontend framework React.  

• Strong experience collaborating with design teams using Figma (or equivalent) as the source of design truth. 

• Handson experience with component documentation tools such as Storybook or similar. 

• Strong understanding of design tokens, theming, component APIs, and versioning. 

• Experience creating engineering playbooks, UI guidelines, or standards documentation. 

• Experience creating and maintaining template or starter repositories for scalable development.  

• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and UI quality best practices.  

• Strong collaboration experience working with design/HCD teams, backend engineers, and QA.  

Preferred Skills 

• Exposure to Vaadin (Java framework) or willingness to learn its UX. 

• Experience operating a UI governance or contribution model (RFCs, approvals, release processes).  

• Familiarity with monorepos, package publishing, and semantic versioning.  

• Experience supporting vendorbased development models.  

• Knowledge of microfrontend architectures or multiapplication UI ecosystems.  

• Exposure to enterprise authentication patterns (SSO, OAuth2, OIDC) from a UI perspective.  

• Experience with frontend performance optimization and observability.  

• Familiarity with frontend build tools, linting, automated testing, and accessibility tooling.  

• Experience working in enterprise or platformfocused environments. 

Soft Skills 

• Strong governance and ownership mindset with attention to longterm platform health.  

• Ability to align design vision and engineering execution.  

• Excellent stakeholder management and crossteam collaboration skills.  

• Comfortable setting standards and enforcing them pragmatically.  

• Strong mentoring and coaching approach.  

• Detailoriented with a focus on quality, consistency, and usability.  

• Proactive, structured, and systemsthinking oriented.