What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead UX Engineer (Onsite) position at Cognizant?
The Role:
Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead UX Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.
Location: This is an onsite role in Washington DC
Responsibilities:
· Guide the user experience process to ensure a cohesive and unified experience across various operational and financial IT products.
· Serve as a center of excellence for UX in each project.
· Facilitate user engagement sessions and oversee the deliverables from UX vendor teams to ensure consistent visual and interaction patterns across projects.
· Provide UX guidance for enterprise initiatives and enhancements.
· Collaborate directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business requirements and constraints.
· Actively conduct user modeling and task analysis and develop personas and scenarios.
· Facilitate user research sessions and communicate the findings.
· Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design.
· Translate complex user requirements and technical constraints into simple user interfaces.
· Recommend solutions for complex interaction problems and enhance the overall user experience within and across applications.
· Experience in user experience design for platforms or during platform implementation is an advantage.
· Envisioning the user experience for multiple enterprise applications with complex business needs
· Experience with Figma is important
· Connecting dots and bringing a cohesive experience across deliverables produced in different project tracks
· Managing multiple projects from a UX perspective being responsible for adherence to standards for the timely and quality delivery of artifacts
Qualifications
· At least 10 years of relevant work experience in UX design
· Usability Analyst certification desirable
· Basic experience with other Prototyping tools HTML/CSS & Photoshop is a plus
· In depth knowledge of usability engineering and information architecture
· In depth knowledge of interaction design
· High level of visual design expertise
· Broad level of understanding of information systems and application development methodologies
· Systems application development methodologies emerging tech
· Strong interpersonal skills and a team player
· Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
· Understanding of the trade offs between optimum user experience and technical information security and business constraints and ability to propose appropriate compromises.
Application for this role will be accepted until 2/28/25
