UI/Angular Architect

UI/Angular Architect Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid) Position: W2 Contract The Application Architect role is an individual contributor position responsible for architecting and shaping enterprise-grade technology solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes for the Legal & Public Policy department. Key Responsibilities: Provide architectural insights specifically around application UI design, UI libraries, and frameworks Own and define end-to-end solution architecture for complex Legal & Public Policy initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, reference architectures, and control requirements. Translate business objectives, legal workflows, and regulatory constraints into clear, durable architecture designs encompassing functional and non-functional requirements. Define and evolve technology stacks, architectural patterns, and integration approaches across user experience, services, data, and automation layers. Produce high-quality architecture artifacts including context, container, and component diagrams; sequence flows; architecture decision records (ADRs); and solution blueprints. Lead and facilitate architecture and design reviews, providing constructive critique, surfacing trade-offs, identifying risks, and recommending pragmatic solutions. Provide implementation guidance to engineering teams, ensuring architectural intent is preserved while enabling team autonomy (no delivery or sprint ownership). Conduct proofs-of-concept (POCs) and technical spikes to validate architectural approaches, emerging technologies, and fitness for purpose in a regulated environment. Establish reference patterns, reusable architectural components, and standards that improve consistency, scalability, and time-to-value across Legal technology solutions. Core Skills: Hands on experience with front end development including performing UI framework upgrades and migrations Specifically Angular 18+ Enterprise Solution Architecture & Systems Design Object-Oriented Design & Design Patterns Architectural Review & Design Critique Proof-of-Concept & Technical Evaluation Leadership Distributed Systems & Integration Patterns (synchronous / asynchronous) Technical Strategy & Target-State Architecture Development