SR UI/UX Designer

Type of Requisition:PipelineClearance Level Must Currently Possess:NoneClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:NonePublic Trust/Other Required:NoneJob Family:Software EngineeringJob Qualifications:Skills:Adobe Photoshop, Communication, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)Certifications:NoneExperience:5 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:NoJob Description:Job DescriptionOverview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior UI/UX Expert to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be a UI/UX Subject Matter Expert with comprehensive expertise in Human-Centered Design (HCD) and design thinking. This role requires a candidate who can provide detailed and useful interface design specifications to development teams, ensuring the creation of intuitive, user-friendly applications.Key Responsibilities:Provide subject matter expertise in UX design, offering strategic guidance grounded in Human-Centered Design and design thinking methodologies, including user research, personas, journey mapping, prototyping, mockups, and usability evaluation.Create and deliver a User Experience (UX) Research Plan and Outcomes for each use case, which shall include a research write-up documenting goals, anticipated outcomes, research questions, hypotheses, methodology, recruiting needs, synthesis, and next steps.Facilitate discovery activities, to include generative research with users and business stakeholders, an assessment of current related features, a content review, an information architecture review, an accessibility review, a business process review; and collection of any available data and analytics and provide in a User Experience Research Checklist.Partner with other Product Teams to ensure that the new tool or service fits into the existing structure.Lead the design and development of user interfaces for various applications, ensuring they are visually appealing, user-friendly, and efficient.Provide clear and actionable interface design specifications to development teams.Design dynamic forms and other complex UI components, including rich cards and drag & drop features.Define and maintain UX frameworks and templates for developers to use during the coding process.Apply insights from user experience research studies to describe product functionality, including epics and user stories, as well as operational, business, functional, technical, data, and integration requirements.Support design synthesis activities and generate insights and opportunities for improvement. Communicate research findings through a variety of formats (such as insight reports, stories, videos, storyboards, etc.) to maximize relevance and impact.Perform requirements analysis based on User Experience Research, obtaining stakeholder input from internal users and external users.Develop User Personas to represent user types that have wants and needs of our applications and products, and who might use our applications and products in a similar way.Create Customer and User Journey Maps and capture related data.Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and other designers.Conduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback on designs and apply results to refine designs.Write and edit plain language content for Development Teams.Design, test, and deliver low- and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and interactive web forms, updating them as needed to support stakeholder collaboration, usability testing, facilitated demos, and iterative design improvements.Lead user testing sessions and conduct thorough analysis to inform design improvements.Establish and uphold design standards across project components.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs.Work with ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Tailwind to develop and refine user interfaces.Design within a micro-service architecture to create scalable and maintainable solutions.Qualifications:MA/MS plus 10+ years of general experience in information systems with 8+ years of specialized experience.HS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years)Familiarity with front-end development and specifically in ReactJS and JavaScript development.Familiarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices in user centered design.Experience with designing software to align to strategic business needs and goals.Experience in conducting research for advanced technologies to determining how IT can support business needs leveraging software, hardware, or infrastructure.Experience in Figma or other related design tool.Experience in usability testing tools.Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically.Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders.Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.Proven track record of delivering scalable and reliable software solutions.