UI​/UX Designer Sr. Principal

** Req :
** RQ220395

** Type of

Requisition :
** Regular

** Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
** None

** Public Trust/Other

Required:

** Other

** Job Family:
** Software Engineering

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* Skills:

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* Design,UI/UX Design,User Interfaces (UI)

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* Experience:

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* 9 + years of related experience

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* Job Description:

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* ** Overview:
** 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.

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* Key Responsibilities:

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* + 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.

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* Qualifications:

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* + 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…