L'Oreal USA, Information Technology

Hudson Yards, New York NY

Digital IT - eCommerce UI & Front End Architect

L’Oreal Group has aggressively embraced the digital era and has advanced many leading consumer-facing digital solutions across its business units. As we prepare to accelerate the rollout of our eCommerce sites to a new tech stack, L’Oreal Americas Digital IT team is looking for an experienced Salesforce Commerce Cloud Front-end Architect. You will be responsible for supervising and leading the implementation of L’Oréal’s global e-commerce frontend architecture framework for 40+ D2C sites in the zone. The Front-end Architect will ensure that all zone deliveries comply with standards set by our global e-commerce team and will collaborate closely with other international teams in the expansion and evolution of set standards.

Responsibilities

• Will be responsible for overall front-end architecture and follow global best practice / guidelines
• Responsible for day-to-day code review for all front-end component development
• Provides signoff of global deliverables before they are ready to be used by local team
• Ensures that reskin activities comply with style guide at the local layer
• Conducts daily calls with site development System integrator teams
• Works closely with Technical Product Lead and outlines tasks / priorities / defects / remediation that need to be undertaken each day
• Provides oversight and training for System Integrator teams involved in site development activities
• Ensures high-performance of sites through optimal front-end architecture and development of components
• Manages of development of code and content assets in respective domains and articulates best practices to brand and UI developers
• Participates in different agile rituals (planning, backlog, stand-up meetings, demos, etc)
• Builds & maintains the front-end component library to be used across multiple brands
• Focuses heavily on performance to ensure a fast-loading user experience
• Writing/reviewing technical specifications
• Performs code reviews and ensures compliances with architectural best practices
• Defines & evangelizes best practices around front-end technologies
• Collaborates with external technical and business teams in international context (Business, Zone IT, Global)

Experiences & Skills

• 5+ years of front-end development in Demandware / Salesforce Commerce Cloud environment
• Experience with web site industrialization and continuous integration/deployment
• Experience with front-end component development approach
• Cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
• Good understanding of front-end security concepts: encryption, cross-site scripting, request forgery, OAuth and SSO
• Strong frontend web development skills:
  • Vanilla JavaScript (ES5, ES6)
  • Familiarity with MVC pattern
  • Strong experience with CSS & Preprocessor (Sass, Less)
  • Building modular applications/sites
  • Strong experience using modern frameworks (React, Vue, Ember, etc.)
• GIT knowledge
• Good Experience with package manager (NPM, Bower, etc.)
• Experience with unit testing tools (Mocha, Chai, etc.)
• Experience with build tools such as Gulp/Webpack
• Experience with application development in cloud environment
• Experience with using RESTFul web services
• Experience with front-end code debugging tools and techniques
• Experience with JIRA
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Architecture skills with modern web applications such as headless commerce
• A strong aptitude to learn and stay abreast with modern / open source technologies

Nice to have:

• Experience developing nodeJS app & tools
• Experience with eCommerce platforms
• Familiar with template engines (Handlebars)

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