Senior UX Developer; NIH Data Lakehouse

Senior UX Developer

We are looking for a Senior UX Developer to support the NIH Data Lakehouse. This role sits at the intersection of human-centered design, data-intensive workflows, and front-end engineering. The ideal candidate will help make complex research and operational experiences clear, efficient, accessible, and trustworthy for a diverse set of NIH users.

You will help shape the data lakehouse user experience end to end, from discovery and workflow mapping through design, implementation, and iteration. Working closely with product owners, engineers, data and platform stakeholders, and leadership, you will translate platform needs into intuitive interfaces that support data discovery, access, governance, and collaboration.

• Lead human-centered design efforts for lakehouse workflows, from discovery through delivery
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and stakeholder interviews to inform design decisions for researchers, analysts, and platform administrators
• Create wireframes, prototypes, journey maps, user flows, and interaction models for data search, filtering, access, and review experiences
• Design interfaces that help users understand complex data, metadata, permissions, and status information with clarity and confidence
• Advocate for accessibility, inclusivity, privacy-aware design, and Section 508 compliance

• Build high-quality, scalable UI components and features that support lakehouse workflows and dashboards
• Implement responsive, performant, and maintainable front-end architecture
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure design fidelity, technical feasibility, and consistency across the platform
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs, search services, and other backend systems that power data lakehouse use experiences
• Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and front-end best practices for platform-wide reuse

• 5–8+ years of experience in UX design, front-end development, or a hybrid role
• Strong portfolio demonstrating human-centered design thinking and shipped digital products or data platform experiences
• Proficiency with modern front-end technologies, including React, Next.js, GraphQL / GQL, React component kits, Type Script and component-based architecture
• Experience conducting user research and translating insights into actionable design decisions
• Experience creating prototypes in relevant design or product tools
• Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, usability principles, and complex workflow design

• Experience supporting scientific, research, healthcare, or public-sector data platforms
• Experience with design systems at an enterprise scale
• Knowledge of performance optimization, SSR/ISR, and modern rendering strategies
• Experience designing engagement mechanisms, gamification features, or incentive-based user experiences that encourage platform adoption, data stewardship, collaboration, training completion, and effective use of enterprise data platforms
• Experience supporting Federal, HHS OpDiv, or NIH programs preferred
• Section 508 experience

The likely salary range for this position is $110,500 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans