Lead UI Engineer

About us

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. We supply the environment to make it happen and generate momentum in the energy transition. We don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. Join us as a Lead UI Engineer and find your superpower.

National 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. 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.

As a Lead UI Engineer, you will drive the future of NGED’s digital experience, creating intuitive, elegant, and user‑centred front‑end experiences across our digital platforms that millions of customers rely on.

In this pivotal leadership position you’ll shape UI Engineering, leading, coaching, and inspiring a talented team of UI Engineers. You’ll define what great looks like, champion technical excellence, ensure high‑quality scalable solutions, and bring innovative thinking to life. Collaboration is at the heart of this role; you’ll partner closely with designers, engineers, product teams, and technology leaders to maintain a robust and aligned UI approach.

• Lead and inspire a high‑performing team of UI Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Set the technical direction for UI engineering, defining best practices, standards, and patterns that ensure scalable, maintainable, and high‑quality front‑end solutions.
• Oversee code quality and architecture, guiding teams through code reviews, tooling decisions, and implementation of a modern micro‑frontend strategy.
• Champion Agile delivery, removing blockers, coaching the team on Agile best practice, and ensuring smooth, predictable delivery across UI projects.
• Collaborate closely with designers, engineers and product teams to ensure UI solutions are user‑centred, accessible, and aligned with the wider technology strategy.
• Drive technical governance and risk awareness, ensuring UI solutions meet compliance, security, and engineering standards.
• Support recruitment, resource planning, and capability development, helping shape the future of the UI function.
• Deputise for the Head of UI when needed, contributing to key decisions and supporting wider engineering initiatives.

• Expert front‑end engineering skills across HTML, CSS (and pre‑processors), JavaScript (ES6+), Type Script, Angular, and modern tooling with a strong grasp of scalable UI architectures.
• Multiple years of experience in a Lead Engineering role in a cloud or hybrid environment with people management, delivery, and technical responsibilities.
• Quality‑first engineering mindset, experienced in unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing and confident applying TDD/BDD to drive reliability and consistency.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise‑grade web applications that are secure, performant, responsive, accessible, and built for scale, monitoring, and high availability.
• Hands‑on experience with component‑driven and micro‑frontend architectures, supported by tools like Storybook or Figma to create reusable, maintainable UI systems.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including Git branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, feature toggling, and secure coding best practice.
• Solid experience integrating with backend services, REST APIs, cloud‑based analytics, experimentation tools, and observability platforms.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for any audience and guide teams through ambiguity.
• Demonstrated success leading high‑performing teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of growth, feedback, and empowerment.
• Deep experience working in Agile environments, removing impediments, supporting iterative delivery, and driving alignment across cross‑functional teams.

• Competitive Salary: circa £75,000 – £90,000 per annum (based on…