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Datacom is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to lead the technical implementation of design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across their Australian and New Zealand operations. This role involves owning and maintaining design systems, building production-ready UI components, and contributing to evolving tooling and AI-augmented workflows. The ideal candidate will possess strong front-end engineering capabilities combined with deep design systems knowledge, fostering seamless integration between design and code.

Required Skills

HTML
CSS
JavaScript/TypeScript
React
design systems
token architecture
component APIs
documentation standards
accessibility standards (WCAG)
user-centred design principles
information architecture
communication and collaboration skills

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Required Previous Experiences: Owning and maintaining the design system as the single source of truth for components, patterns, interaction flows, and UX guidelines.
Building and maintaining production-ready UI components and scalable front-end patterns.
Encoding design decisions including design tokens, interaction patterns, accessibility requirements, and layout rules into structured, reusable systems.
Creating and maintaining clear, structured documentation for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted tooling.
Building and maintaining automation pipelines and tooling that translate design decisions into working code.
Ensuring front-end code quality, accessibility compliance (WCAG), performance, and standards alignment.
Partnering with engineering teams to support seamless integration between design system outputs and build processes.
Evolving the design system based on customer feedback, user insights, and research outcomes.
Contributing technical expertise to design and pattern governance discussions.
Evaluating emerging workflows, front-end technologies, AI tooling, and design-to-code capabilities to improve delivery efficiency.
Sharing knowledge and capability across teams to support scalable adoption of the design system.
Maintaining a high standard of visual craft and interaction quality as products scale.
Contributing to standardised approaches, tooling, and processes that support best practice across the design system discipline.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in AI-augmented or AI-led product delivery environments.
Knowledge of agentic AI workflows, orchestration, and AI-assisted design-to-code pipelines.
Understanding of machine-readable documentation structures and AI context engineering.
Experience within SaaS or product-led environments.
Understanding of CMS and CRM platforms.
Front-end performance optimisation experience.
Relevant certifications in front-end development, UX/UI design, or design systems.

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