Director, Front-End Engineering – Cornerstones Experience
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Job Description: Director, Front-End Engineering – Cornerstones
Experience
Bell Digital Front-End Platform (Module Federation / Micro-Frontend
Architecture)
Location: Bangalore, India (BCE Global Tech)
Position Overview
We are seeking a Director of Front-End Engineering to lead one of the
Experience domain groups within Bell's Cornerstones re-platforming
program — the federated, module-federation architecture behind bell.ca
(the shell, its micro-frontends, and the shared design system and
tooling that support them). This is not a staffing or execution role: we
are looking for a true engineering partner who takes complete,
end-to-end ownership of a business outcome and is accountable for how it
is delivered, not just that it is delivered. You will own one or two
Experience domains (for example Checkout or Solution Builder) across the
program's West, Atlantic, and Central phases, build and run a
self-sufficient pod, set the hiring bar for your organization, and
represent India as a full partner to the Canada-based Experience
leadership with the standing and judgment to disagree, be heard, and
then commit.
Leadership & Management Skills
- Outcome Ownership: Proven ability to take complete ownership of a
business outcome end-to-end — understanding the target, debating the
technical approach and trade-offs, and once a decision is made,
committing to it and being accountable for its delivery, quality,
and long-term shelf life in production.
- Hiring Accountability: Full accountability for interviewing,
vetting, and hiring top engineering talent for your pod(s) — you are
personally responsible for the quality of the team you build and the
delivery that results from it.
- Pod & Delivery Leadership: Ability to stand up and run a pod (or pod
of pods) that owns a domain end-to-end: onboarding engineers,
running delivery governance that is lightweight rather than
bureaucratic, and escalating only the blockers that genuinely need
to be bubbled up.
- Cross-Geo Partnership: Comfort operating as an extension of the
Canada-based team rather than a downstream vendor — attending daily
stand-ups, building direct working relationships with Salesforce,
integration, and SRE counterparts, and knowing who to call when
something crosses a domain boundary.
- Architectural Voice: A mandate to bring architectural authority to
the table: thought leaders on this team work with delivery so that
what is proposed is what actually ships and holds up in production,
rather than designs that drift once handed off.
- Culture Building: A servant-leader who protects a culture of
innovation, delivery, and fun, and who actively resists unnecessary
process — the goal is a lean, fast, and simple way of working, not
adding heavyweight reporting because "that's how it's always been
done."
- Talent Magnetism: Ability to attract and retain talent that can
compete with Bangalore's startup market — engineers who bring modern
technical curiosity and creative problem-solving, not only
integration/operations profiles.
Technical Skills & Acumen
- Module Federation / Micro-Frontend Architecture: Deep working
knowledge of federated front-end architecture: a shared shell
(navigation, session, layout, analytics) plus independently owned
and deployed micro-frontends (MFEs), each mapped to a single
business domain (e.g., Qualification, Product Catalog, Checkout,
Billing, Customer Profile).
- Stack Fluency: Comfort overseeing modern front-end stacks — React
19, TanStack Router/Query, a shared design system (Brand UI and
Product UI), and standardized build/test tooling (Rspack, Vitest
browser-mode testing, visual regression) — even without writing the
code personally day to day.
- Engineering Standards & CI/CD: Understanding of how
Guardrails-over-gatekeeping pipelines work (linting, TypeScript,
security scanning, live review environments) so standards are
enforced by tooling, not by adding process.
- Integration & Systems Thinking: Awareness of how the front end
integrates with Salesforce, MuleSoft, and other backend/API layers —
enough to debate translation and integration approaches with an
architectural and cost lens, and to know when a workaround belongs
in the API layer rather than the front end.
- AI-Assisted Delivery: Experience championing AI-assisted SDLC —
planning agents, delivery agents, and AI-assisted testing — to help
developers ship faster and with fewer defects.
- Observability & Production Readiness: Familiarity with observability
and AIOps practices (proactive/reactive tiering, telemetry
pipelines, tools such as New Relic and Dynatrace) so your domain's
production health is visible and defensible.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to look across your domain(s) and adjacent
ones to spot reuse opportunities, reduce tech debt, and avoid
rebuilding what already exists in the shared platform.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in
a senior leadership role (Director or equivalent) owning delivery
for teams of 50+ engineers.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling teams in a GCC, global
capability center, or global delivery model — ideally one that has
moved from staff augmentation to outcome ownership.
- Hands-on or recent front-end engineering background (React or
comparable modern framework); experience with micro-frontend or
federated architectures is a strong plus.
- Experience in telecommunications or large-scale digital/retail
platforms is a strong plus.
- A track record of building trust with distributed stakeholders and
operating with autonomy rather than waiting to be told what to do.
Experience
Bell Digital Front-End Platform (Module Federation / Micro-Frontend
Architecture)
Location: Bangalore, India (BCE Global Tech)
Position Overview
We are seeking a Director of Front-End Engineering to lead one of the
Experience domain groups within Bell's Cornerstones re-platforming
program — the federated, module-federation architecture behind bell.ca
(the shell, its micro-frontends, and the shared design system and
tooling that support them). This is not a staffing or execution role: we
are looking for a true engineering partner who takes complete,
end-to-end ownership of a business outcome and is accountable for how it
is delivered, not just that it is delivered. You will own one or two
Experience domains (for example Checkout or Solution Builder) across the
program's West, Atlantic, and Central phases, build and run a
self-sufficient pod, set the hiring bar for your organization, and
represent India as a full partner to the Canada-based Experience
leadership with the standing and judgment to disagree, be heard, and
then commit.
Leadership & Management Skills
- Outcome Ownership: Proven ability to take complete ownership of a
business outcome end-to-end — understanding the target, debating the
technical approach and trade-offs, and once a decision is made,
committing to it and being accountable for its delivery, quality,
and long-term shelf life in production.
- Hiring Accountability: Full accountability for interviewing,
vetting, and hiring top engineering talent for your pod(s) — you are
personally responsible for the quality of the team you build and the
delivery that results from it.
- Pod & Delivery Leadership: Ability to stand up and run a pod (or pod
of pods) that owns a domain end-to-end: onboarding engineers,
running delivery governance that is lightweight rather than
bureaucratic, and escalating only the blockers that genuinely need
to be bubbled up.
- Cross-Geo Partnership: Comfort operating as an extension of the
Canada-based team rather than a downstream vendor — attending daily
stand-ups, building direct working relationships with Salesforce,
integration, and SRE counterparts, and knowing who to call when
something crosses a domain boundary.
- Architectural Voice: A mandate to bring architectural authority to
the table: thought leaders on this team work with delivery so that
what is proposed is what actually ships and holds up in production,
rather than designs that drift once handed off.
- Culture Building: A servant-leader who protects a culture of
innovation, delivery, and fun, and who actively resists unnecessary
process — the goal is a lean, fast, and simple way of working, not
adding heavyweight reporting because "that's how it's always been
done."
- Talent Magnetism: Ability to attract and retain talent that can
compete with Bangalore's startup market — engineers who bring modern
technical curiosity and creative problem-solving, not only
integration/operations profiles.
Technical Skills & Acumen
- Module Federation / Micro-Frontend Architecture: Deep working
knowledge of federated front-end architecture: a shared shell
(navigation, session, layout, analytics) plus independently owned
and deployed micro-frontends (MFEs), each mapped to a single
business domain (e.g., Qualification, Product Catalog, Checkout,
Billing, Customer Profile).
- Stack Fluency: Comfort overseeing modern front-end stacks — React
19, TanStack Router/Query, a shared design system (Brand UI and
Product UI), and standardized build/test tooling (Rspack, Vitest
browser-mode testing, visual regression) — even without writing the
code personally day to day.
- Engineering Standards & CI/CD: Understanding of how
Guardrails-over-gatekeeping pipelines work (linting, TypeScript,
security scanning, live review environments) so standards are
enforced by tooling, not by adding process.
- Integration & Systems Thinking: Awareness of how the front end
integrates with Salesforce, MuleSoft, and other backend/API layers —
enough to debate translation and integration approaches with an
architectural and cost lens, and to know when a workaround belongs
in the API layer rather than the front end.
- AI-Assisted Delivery: Experience championing AI-assisted SDLC —
planning agents, delivery agents, and AI-assisted testing — to help
developers ship faster and with fewer defects.
- Observability & Production Readiness: Familiarity with observability
and AIOps practices (proactive/reactive tiering, telemetry
pipelines, tools such as New Relic and Dynatrace) so your domain's
production health is visible and defensible.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to look across your domain(s) and adjacent
ones to spot reuse opportunities, reduce tech debt, and avoid
rebuilding what already exists in the shared platform.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in
a senior leadership role (Director or equivalent) owning delivery
for teams of 50+ engineers.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling teams in a GCC, global
capability center, or global delivery model — ideally one that has
moved from staff augmentation to outcome ownership.
- Hands-on or recent front-end engineering background (React or
comparable modern framework); experience with micro-frontend or
federated architectures is a strong plus.
- Experience in telecommunications or large-scale digital/retail
platforms is a strong plus.
- A track record of building trust with distributed stakeholders and
operating with autonomy rather than waiting to be told what to do.