Overview

UI/UX Engineer

woodcons.com

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires all candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess an active TS/SCI Security Clearance with a Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• As a User Experience Engineer, you will be charged with blending both technical expertise and mission knowledge in providing design support for a dynamic and forward-thinking team, contributing to the development, testing, and deployment of an enterprise-level financial and resource management system.
• Leverage UI/UX design expertise and collaborate with customers to analyze their needs, working closely with the development team to design a user interface that enhances the visual appeal and user experience of enterprise-level financial and resource management systems. Propose tailored solutions that align with business objectives and adhere to Section 508 requirements, ensuring seamless integration with user needs.
• Work with the technical team and Government leadership to prepare schedule inputs, communicate dependencies, impediments, risks, and communicate with the Freedom Program Management team.
• Define interface requirements by collaborating with users and stakeholders.
• Collect and analyze user behaviors and needs through user research.
• Design user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups that are intuitive and present a clear flow of information.
• Brand and design UIs, define style guides to ensure consistency in the interface of the project and sister tool suites.
• Collaborate closely with customers and stakeholders to gather new and refine existing project requirements. Collaborate with teammates that may include other designers, project managers, developers, engineers, and product champions.
• Create comprehensive documentation, including SOPs and configuration guides using Confluence and Jira for efficient ticket tracking and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in testing solutions to validate their functionality, performance, and compatibility with the desired outcomes to ensure high-quality deliverables for the customer.
• Provide technical support to internal teams and end-users to resolve system-related issues promptly and effectively.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations to protect sensitive information and maintain the integrity of the system.
• Embrace challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, highly visible team environment to deliver exceptional results.

Qualifications

Required Education & Years of Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and seven (7) years of system engineering experience.
  • Five (5) year of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

Required Skills

• Experience with design products like Balsamiq, Axure RP, Figma, or Adobe Suite products like Illustrator, xD, and InDesign to design sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockups/prototypes.
• Understand foundational concepts in UX design, including user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design.
• Experience articulating design concepts to a variety of audiences and explain any design decisions supported by industry standards and Usability Heuristics.
• Excellent communication skills, both writing and speaking.
• Ability to work and design independently or as a team.
• Experience with requirements management to include working with customers to capture clear definition of done.
• Regular work schedule must adhere to core hours of M-F 10am-2pm. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Desired Skills

• Experience with UI/UX design.
• Experience with Atlassian Suite products including Confluence & Jira.
• Ability to clearly communicate ambiguous or highly complex concepts to all audiences.
• Ability to understand the big picture and align the day-to-day activities to support that picture.
• Experience with Agile Development and Product Management.
• Coding HTML and CSS is a plus, contributing to your rapid prototyping workflow, and you understand how it applies to responsive design.
• A design portfolio that showcases a variety or creative works, sketches, steps completed to complete a project, etc.
• Professional certifications in UX focused areas are encouraged.
• Experience with CSS, SCSS, & HTML is important.
• Beginner understanding of JavaScript frameworks.
• Understanding of WCAG guidelines and a working knowledge of ARIA.
• Experience in creating user personas, UAT test plans & test scenarios, user interviews, & other user feedback/requirements elicitation mechanisms.

WOOD is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status.