As a Senior Staff Software UI / Design System Architect you will define and evolve the architecture of shared UI platforms used across multiple products and teams. The role requires strong architectural ownership beyond individual framework development, with experience scaling design systems across React, Angular, TypeScript, and Web Components ecosystems.
The ideal candidate should combine strong UI architecture, governance, performance engineering, quality strategy, technical leadership, and practical AI-assisted engineering experience.
GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.
About the Ethos Design System (EDS)
EDS is the unified digital platform that powers GE HealthCare’s global software portfolio. It serves as a comprehensive library of reusable UI components, design patterns, and accessibility standards that bridge the critical gap between User Experience (UX) and Engineering. By fostering a philosophy of "reduce, reuse, and recycle," EDS enables hundreds of product teams to eliminate redundant coding and design work. We provide the foundational building blocks that ensure our clinical and operational applications are intuitive, consistent, and accessible, allowing teams to focus on patient safety.
The Mission: Scale and Empowerment
We are in a phase of hyper-growth, scaling from 25 adopting products to over 100. This requires an architect who thinks like a platform owner, not just a component builder. You must look beyond individual implementation details to think about scale, governance, and empowerment. You will define the architectural foundations and self-service patterns that let teams move fast without breaking the consistency, compatibility, and accessibility standards required for patient safety.
1. Architecture & Platform Design
Framework-Agnostic Foundations: Establish framework-agnostic foundations such as design tokens, styling, shared behavior, and interaction patterns. Drive architectural consistency across Web Components.
Adapter & API Strategy: Define the right approach for framework adapters, native implementations, package structure, and component APIs. Own public API boundaries, backwards compatibility, versioning, deprecation, and migration strategy.
2. Quality, Performance & Technical Debt
Quality Strategy: Define quality strategy across unit, component, accessibility, visual regression, integration, and E2E testing. Establish release-blocking quality gates and compatibility expectations.
Performance Engineering: Diagnose and improve rendering, DOM, memory, bundle-size, and framework-integration performance. Define measurable performance baselines, budgets, and engineering health metrics rather than subjective assessments.
Debt Prioritization: Prioritize technical and QA debt based on customer impact, adoption, risk, and maintainability.
3. Roadmap & Cross-Team Enablement
Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Leadership, Product, UX, QA, DevOps, and engineering teams to drive architecture decisions and adoption across organizational boundaries.
Migration Support: Support consuming teams with migration, integration, and compatibility challenges. Drive adoption across consuming applications rather than focusing only on platform implementation.
Communicating Trade-offs & Alignment: Exceptional ability to communicate complex architectural concepts by clearly explaining options, technical trade-offs, risks, and long-term implications. Works closely with internal customers across cross-functional engineering, UX, and product teams to ensure alignment and secure buy-in.
Applied AI for Development: Uses AI-assisted engineering for refactoring, testing, migrations, documentation, debugging, and code review. Understands model selection and context/token management. Can define safe team-level AI development practices (validation, security, human-review controls) and demonstrate measurable improvements in productivity.
Mentorship: Mentors senior engineers and Tech Leads, raising architectural capability across the team. Balances scalability, compatibility, performance, developer experience, security, and delivery needs.
Deep understanding of React, Angular, TypeScript, Web Components, HTML, CSS, and browser fundamentals.
Experience with design tokens, theming, styling architecture, shared behavior, and component composition.
Strong understanding of API design, package architecture, dependency management, changesets, semantic versioning, and migration planning/codemods.
Experience with design-system governance, component lifecycle, release management, and adoption analytics.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, build pipelines, package publishing, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and release governance.
Good understanding of backend systems, APIs, authentication, integration patterns, and distributed application architecture.
Inclusion and Diversity:
GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviours: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.
Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.
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