UI​/UX Developer Senior

Description

SAIC is looking for a UI/UX Developer to join our Land Border Integration team. You will have a fast moving, challenging, and highly rewarding position keeping the infrastructure running that helps Customs and Border Protection keep our borders safe.

This position is hybrid-remote and requires 2 days per week on-site in Ashburn, VA.

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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design, UX strategy, and usability research and testing.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust security clearance.
• 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, Dev Ops 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.
• Note:
  
  Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting.