Lead development projects for digital book services, managing requirements, design, and vendor collaboration.
About this role
Dwango's IT arm for the KADOKAWA Group is hiring a Solution Architect in its Engineering department, which builds and runs websites for the group's media such as The Television, Walker Plus and Lettuce Club, and supports the group's business systems. The architect links engineers and designers on web frontends in a team of five to ten.
The architect turns customer needs and strategists' business plans into concrete feature and display requirements with technical and UI and UX judgement. Work includes setting design guidelines with outside design vendors, then organising the overall frontend design once development starts, from requirements to choice of technology. The architect also coordinates vendors and accepts design deliverables from an engineering viewpoint.
Applicants need experience defining and designing systems with operation in mind, project leading experience, TypeScript, HTML and CSS skills, application development with React or similar, and experience setting up frontend environments and choosing technology. Interest in UI and UX and Figma experience are also required. Design ability, accessibility interest and wireframing are preferred.
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