Director - Front-End Engineering
Leads an India-based front-end engineering organization for Bell's bell.ca re-platforming program, owning Experience domains (e.g., Checkout) end-to-end on a module-federation/micro-frontend architecture using React 19, TypeScript, Rspack and Vitest. Partners with Canada-based leadership while hiring, running, and architecturally leading self-sufficient pods.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
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- Work setup
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- Seniority
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- Employment
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- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 15+ years of software engineering experience
- 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
- Hands-on or recent front-end engineering background (React or comparable modern framework)
- Track record of building trust with distributed stakeholders and operating with autonomy
- Deep working knowledge of module federation / micro-frontend architecture
- Comfort overseeing modern front-end stacks (React 19, TanStack Router/Query, shared design systems, Rspack, Vitest)
- Understanding of guardrails-over-gatekeeping CI/CD pipelines (linting, TypeScript, security scanning, live review environments)
- Awareness of front-end integration with Salesforce, MuleSoft, and other backend/API layers
- Experience championing AI-assisted SDLC (planning agents, delivery agents, AI-assisted testing)
- Familiarity with observability and AIOps practices and tools such as New Relic and Dynatrace
- Proven end-to-end outcome ownership with full hiring accountability and pod leadership
- Ability to attract and retain top engineering talent
Nice to have
- Experience moving a GCC from staff augmentation to outcome ownership
- Experience with micro-frontend or federated architectures
- Experience in telecommunications or large-scale digital/retail platforms
Full description
Job Description
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.