Hybrid Senior Technical Lead – Enterprise Design System

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About the role

  • Senior Technical Lead at Vanguard modernizing and expanding the Enterprise Design System. Leading architectural evolution while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to ensure the design system’s architecture is modern, scalable, accessible, and aligned with industry best practices.
  • Define and drive the future‑state technical vision, including component architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, and platform‑aligned tooling.
  • Lead major contributions to the next evolution of the system, improving discoverability, reducing duplication, and strengthening consistency across component libraries.
  • Shape contribution and governance models that support distributed development and shared quality standards across teams.
  • Identify modernization opportunities and support the creation of reusable patterns, reference architectures, and frameworks used enterprise‑wide.
  • Guide and review complex engineering solutions, resolve technical blockers, and uphold high standards for code quality and documentation.
  • Partner closely with the mobile design‑system team to ensure alignment across web and mobile platforms.
  • Lead day‑to‑day technical execution, ensuring delivery of high‑quality, maintainable, and accessible components and tooling.
  • Collaborate with product and design partners to shape roadmaps and support broader modernization goals.
  • Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and foster a learning‑focused and inclusive team culture.
  • Explore emerging technologies and help drive continuous improvements in accessibility, automation, developer experience, and engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Deep proficiency in modern web development (TypeScript, HTML, SCSS) and component‑driven architecture.
  • Significant experience building or maintaining enterprise‑scale design systems or component libraries.
  • Strong experience with modern UI frameworks (Lit preferred; React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, or Stencil acceptable).
  • Proven ability to lead architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and drive modernization initiatives.
  • Experience with design tokens, Storybook, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and WCAG‑aligned accessibility practices.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence without authority and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job title

Senior Technical Lead – Enterprise Design System

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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