UI/UX Developer

Job Title: UI/UX Developer 

Location: Onsite 2 days per week – Ashburn, VA

Rate:  W2

Duration: 6+ months

Interview: Phone/ Skype-2Rounds

Linkedin Must have

Job Description:

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust 

Onsite: Must be in Ashburn twice a week

JOB DESCRIPTION: 

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.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:  

Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience

BI Requirement 

Current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one.   

Note: Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting. 

TS clearance would expedite hiring process.