UI/UX Developer

We are looking for a UI/UX Developer to join our team. You will have a fast moving, challenging, and highly rewarding position keeping the infrastructure running that helps keep our borders safe.

Responsibilities:

• Employ participatory design, creative brainstorming and other techniques to collaborate with software developers, systems engineers and other product team members as part of an agile software development team
• Ensure quality product and timely delivery meeting stakeholder needs and IT Accessibility Standards
• Map workflows, user paths, create storyboards, wireframes, mockups, low and high-fidelity prototypes and write UI specifications to support development across multiple applications and platforms
• Design graphic, icons and other visual elements as necessary
• Evaluate designs using user-centric design techniques such as UI reviews and cognitive walk-throughs
• Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology design and usability, and share information across multiple teams
• Participate in working groups and/or meetings with application stakeholders to discuss user requirements and/or present wireframes and mockups

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design, UX strategy, and usability research and testing
• Experience delivering code using modern JavaScript frameworks such as VueJS, Angular, or React, with the ability to implement and support modern JavaScript code
• Experience delivering products that work across a range of browsers and platforms
• Experience using modern CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap to deliver responsive, mobile aware products
• Experience delivering and meeting Section 508 Accessibility standards
• Excellent understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation)
• Experience with web design using Figma, Axure, Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium, Photoshop, XD, Dreamweaver, InDesign etc.
• Excellent communication and writing skills (ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience)
• Experience with Agile, DevOps tools such as Atlassian Confluence, JIRA

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results

BI Requirement:

Current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one. Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting. TS clearance would expedite hiring process.