Software Development- Front End Lead

Grow with the best. Join a smart, innovative, and inspired team that strives for growth and operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 26,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our company stronger.

As data continues to grow in size and complexity, we need more robust tools to help clients manage, understand, and interact with it. Our focus centers around developing strategy alongside client needs and using software as a platform to deliver value and centralize insights across services. Software and digital strategy are the solutions that bridge the data to knowledge gap to deliver insights and analytics for clients to stay on top of the information that matters most and ultimately drive efficiencies in the operations of their assets.

Our shared focus is to combine digital transformation, modern visualizations, user experience design, data contextualization, and narrative science to help clients reach their full potential. Stantec is ranked No. 10 on the Top 150 Global Design Firms list by Engineering News-Record (ENR) and No. 10 on the Top 300 Architecture Firms list by Architectural Record, both leading industry publications. We want our digital practice to enter this upper echelon as well and it is our vision to increase awareness of Stantec as a global leader for digital solutions.

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a Software Development Front-end Lead to increase our capacity within our rapidly growing SIA team. Our team works closely with project managers and clients to develop solutions that enable our customers to have top tier information access and analytics. This journey includes identifying, defining, and developing digital products which positively impact communities. Our goal is to transform the industry with best-in-class digital solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to lead frontend development and follow implementations through the development lifecycle for a variety of digital products
• Work with product owners across multiple business lines to incorporate and consolidate ideas into a common suite of applications
• Promote awareness of UI/UX implementations throughout Stantec
• Continually look for new and innovative ways to visualize data to improve readability and contextualization
• Process complex designs and align them to fit or extend our component library
• Interface with clients to generate requirements and incorporate feedback
• Enhance the design handoff and how we synchronize design and development components
• Maintain the design guidelines within a design system and help enforce its adoption
• Focus on implementing best practices and designing/developing for reusability
• Produce highly reusable design components that can apply to multiple clients and applications
• Contribute directly to our product lines in the early phases of development and as needed to architect the front end in accordance to our standards and best practices