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Lead UX architect for a retail platform modernization, creating high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes for Search, Quoting, Inventory, and Payment workflows. Optimize interfaces for POS and handheld devices, ensure API-driven UI behavior, steward the design system, validate via usability testing, and mentor junior designers through rapid build cycles.

Design and build Java/J2EE Spring-based APIs and multi-layer applications; develop web services and database schemas (DB2/Oracle) with PL/SQL; participate in code reviews, unit/integration testing; coordinate technical deliveries across teams and support CI/CD and DevOps collaboration.

Design and build automation frameworks and evaluation pipelines for agentic AI products. Develop non-deterministic tests, golden datasets, tool-use validation, prompt regression tests, latency/token monitoring, hallucination detection, and collaborate with AI engineers to convert requirements into measurable automated test cases.

Reverse-engineer TIBCO BW/MFT processes to extract business logic, then design and implement a modular Java/Spring Boot microservices replacement. Migrate protocols to Kafka/RabbitMQ/REST, translate XML transformations, ensure data persistence and consistency, and validate performance to meet existing SLAs.

Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure; build CI/CD pipelines; implement IaC and container orchestration; monitor and secure systems; automate deployments; collaborate with developers; document architecture and procedures.

The posting provides no concrete responsibilities. Company delivers digital experiences and modernization for enterprise clients; the Architect role likely involves designing and overseeing architecture for digital modernization projects.

Lead end-to-end discovery and UX research for a retail POS modernization MVP. Validate and optimize customer-facing workflows (search, quoting, inventory, payments), assess hardware ergonomics, align UX with API-based architectures, and run iterative usability testing to reduce friction and enable rapid pilot rollout and future expansions.

Own the product backlog, define vision and roadmap for web and mobile products, write user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritize features, collaborate with UX, technical architects, and engineering, validate ideas through research and prototypes, measure outcomes, and ensure delivered features meet business and quality standards.

Lead requirements engineering and gap analysis to modernize a TIBCO-based integration platform into modular, cloud-ready microservices. Translate legacy workflows into functional specs, map SLAs and performance requirements, coordinate stakeholders (Business, Arch, DevOps), and lead UAT to validate parity and data integrity during migration.

Design HCI standards for Agentic AI products: create transparency and human-in-the-loop workflows, dynamic/generative and multi-modal interfaces, trust/error UX for hallucinations, prototype autonomous sequences with tools like Figma/Protopie, and organize dense information for auditability and oversight.