Lead UI Engineer

As Lead UI Engineer, you will shape the future of NGED’s digital experience and drive a best-in-class front-end capability. You lead and grow a team of UI Engineers while setting standards for scalable, accessible, enterprise-grade UI. You collaborate with designers, engineers, and product teams to deliver user-centered solutions at scale. You’ll clear blockers, mentor others, and promote engineering excellence in an Agile environment. This role offers strategic impact across our digital platforms and a strong hands-on leadership hook in a hybrid, multi-office setting.

• competitive salary
• annual incentive up to 30%
• contributory pension with 12% max company match
• flexible benefits including bike scheme and share plan
• wellbeing and digital health perks
• Work + Family Space with childcare and eldercare support

• Lead and develop a high-performing UI team, fostering excellence and ownership
• Define technical direction, standards, and patterns for scalable front-end solutions
• Oversee code quality and architecture, guiding reviews and micro-frontend strategy
• Champion Agile delivery, remove blockers, and ensure predictable delivery
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product teams to ensure user-centered outcomes
• Drive governance, security, and engineering standards compliance
• Support recruitment, capability development, and succession planning
• Deputise for the Head of UI and contribute to wider engineering initiatives

• Expert front-end skills: HTML, CSS (and preprocessors), JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Angular
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and AI-enabled engineering practices
• Several years in a Lead Engineering role with people management in cloud/hybrid environments
• Quality-first mindset with unit/integration/end-to-end testing; TDD/BDD
• Proven delivery of enterprise-grade, secure, performant web apps at scale
• Hands-on with component-driven and micro-frontend architectures; Storybook or Figma
• Strong fundamentals: Git, CI/CD, feature toggling, secure coding
• Experience integrating with REST APIs, cloud analytics, observability tools
• Proven leadership in mentoring and fostering growth; Agile leadership

• collaboration
• stakeholder influence
• coaching and mentoring
• HTML
• CSS and preprocessors
• JavaScript (ES6+)