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But it’s so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Lead UI Engineer, and find your superpower.\nNational Grid is hiring a Lead UI Engineer for our Technology team. This role can be based at our Warwick, Bristol, or Cardiff offices, with hybrid working - and you’ll also have access to our London co-working space if that location suits your working pattern. You’ll play a key role in designing and developing secure, scalable software solutions that support critical operations across our enterprise.\nAbout The Role\nAt National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Lead UI Engineer, and find your superpower.\nNational Grid is hiring a Lead UI Engineer for our Technology team. This role can be based at our Warwick, Bristol, or Cardiff offices, with hybrid working - and you’ll also have access to our London co-working space if that location suits your working pattern. You’ll play a key role in designing and developing secure, scalable software solutions that support critical operations across our enterprise.\nAbout The Role\nStep into a pivotal leadership position where you’ll shape the future of NGED’s digital experience. As our Lead UI Engineer, you’ll be the driving force behind creating intuitive, elegant, and user-centred front-end experiences across our digital platforms - experiences that millions of customers rely on.\nIn this role, you won’t just guide UI development - you’ll define what great looks like. You’ll lead, coach, and inspire a talented team of UI Engineers, championing technical excellence and ensuring we deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly meet user needs. You’ll be the person who clears blockers, solves complex problems, sets standards, and brings innovative thinking to life.\nCollaboration is at the heart of this role. You’ll partner closely with designers, engineers, product teams and technology leaders to ensure our UI approach is robust, maintainable, and aligned to outcomes that matter. You’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, lean into Agile ways of working, and elevate engineering practice across the organisation.\nYou’ll also act as a trusted deputy to the Head of UI when needed, supporting wider engineering initiatives and playing an active role in mentoring, knowledge sharing, and strengthening our broader software engineering community.\nIf you’re motivated by craftsmanship, leadership, and the chance to shape a best-in-class UI capability, this is a rare opportunity to make a genuine\nWhat You'll Do\nAs our Lead UI Engineer, you’ll take a hands-on leadership role in shaping how UI Engineering operates and delivers value across NGED. In this role, you will:\nLead and inspire a high-performing team of UI Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.\nSet the technical direction for UI engineering, defining best practices, standards, and patterns that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-quality front-end solutions.\nOversee code quality and architecture, guiding teams through code reviews, tooling decisions, and implementation of a modern micro-frontend strategy.\nChampion Agile delivery, removing blockers, coaching the team on Agile best practice, and ensuring smooth, predictable delivery across UI projects.\nCollaborate closely with designers, engineers and product teams to ensure UI solutions are user-centred, accessible, and aligned with the wider technology strategy.\nDrive technical governance and risk awareness, ensuring UI solutions meet compliance, security, and engineering standards.\nSupport recruitment, resource planning, and capability development, helping shape the future of the UI function.\nDeputise for the Head of UI when needed, contributing to key decisions and supporting wider engineering initiatives.\nAbout You\nYou’re an accomplished UI Engineering leader with deep technical expertise and a passion for delivering exceptional front-end experiences at scale. You combine hands-on mastery with strong decision-making, stakeholder influence, and a coaching-led leadership style. Here’s what you’ll bring:\nExpert front-end engineering skills across HTML, CSS (and pre-processors), JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Angular, and modern tooling - with a strong grasp of scalable UI architectures.\nPractical experience using AI-assisted development tools, with a strong understanding of AI-enabled engineering practices including Spec-Driven Development (SDD), requirements-first development, effective context and prompt management and validating AI-generated solutions\nMultiple years of experience in a Lead Engineering role in a cloud or hybrid environment with people management, delivery and technical responsibilities.\nA quality-first engineering mindset, experienced in unit, integration and end-to-end testing, and confident applying TDD/BDD to drive reliability and consistency.\nA proven track record delivering enterprise-grade web applications that are secure, performant, responsive, accessible, and built for scale, monitoring, and high availability.\nHands-on experience with component-driven and micro-frontend architectures, supported by tools like Storybook or Figma to create reusable, maintainable UI systems.\nStrong engineering fundamentals, including Git branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, feature toggling, and secure coding best practice.\nSolid experience integrating with backend services, REST APIs, cloud-based analytics, experimentation tools and observability platforms.\nDemonstrated success leading high-performing teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of growth, feedback and empowerment.\nDeep experience working in Agile environments, removing impediments, supporting iterative delivery and driving alignment across cross-functional teams.\nWhat You'll Get\nCompetitive Salary: circa £75,000 - £90,000 per annum (based on capability, and experience)\nAnnual performance incentive of up to 30% of your annual salary\nAdditional benefits:\nA competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%\nFlexible benefits such as a cycle scheme, share incentive plan, technology schemes\nAccess to apps such as digital GP service for round the clock access to GP video consultations and NHS repeat prescriptions, wellbeing app to support your health and fitness\nAccess to Work + Family Space, providing support and resources for work and family life, including paid emergency childcare and eldercare\nMore information\nThis role can be based at our Warwick, Bristol, or Cardiff offices, with hybrid working - and you’ll also have access to our London co-working space if that location suits your working pattern. \nEvery quarter, you’ll attend a 2-3 day in-person planning event held at one of our office locations.\nThis role is offered on a full time basis.\nThis role closes on 23rd November however we strongly encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible. \nWe value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates - we make appointments purely on merit, assessed against objective selection criteria. We support flexible working and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process should you have any physical or mental impairment which may affect your ability to participate in the process.\nPlease note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. 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