UI/UX Engineer, Reflexive Concepts, Annapolis Junction, MD
Reflexive Concepts -
Annapolis Junction, MD,
US
UI/UX Engineer
Date Posted: 2024-06-18
Job description
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled UX/UI Designer to join our team!
- As a User Experience Engineer, you will be charged with blending both technical expertise and mission knowledge in providing design support for a dynamic and forward-thinking team, contributing to the development, testing, and deployment of an enterprise-level financial and resource management system.
- Leverage UI/UX design expertise and collaborate with customers to analyze their needs, working closely with the development team to design a user interface that enhances the visual appeal and user experience of enterprise-level financial and resource management systems. Propose tailored solutions that align with business objectives and adhere to Section 508 requirements, ensuring seamless integration with user needs.
- Work with the technical team and Government leadership to prepare schedule inputs, communicate dependencies, impediments, risks, and communicate with the Freedom Program Management team.
- Define interface requirements by collaborating with users and stakeholders.
- Collect and analyze user behaviors and needs through user research.
- Design user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups that are intuitive and present a clear flow of information.
- Brand and design UIs, define style guides to ensure consistency in the interface of the project and sister tool suites.
- Collaborate closely with customers and stakeholders to gather new and refine existing project requirements. Collaborate with teammates that may include other designers, project managers, developers, engineers, and product champions.
- Create comprehensive documentation, including SOPs and configuration guides using Confluence and Jira for efficient ticket tracking and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in testing solutions to validate their functionality, performance, and compatibility with the desired outcomes to ensure high-quality deliverables for the customer.
- Provide technical support to internal teams and end-users to resolve system-related issues promptly and effectively.
- Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations to protect sensitive information and maintain the integrity of the system.
- Embrace challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, highly visible team environment to deliver exceptional results.
- Experience with UI/UX design
- Experience with Atlassian Suite products including Confluence & Jira
- Ability to clearly communicate ambiguous or highly complex concepts to all audiences.
- Ability to understand the big picture and align the day-to-day activities to support that picture
- Experience with Agile Development and Product Management
- Coding HTML and CSS is a plus, contributing to your rapid prototyping workflow, and you understand how it applies to responsive design.
- A design portfolio that showcases a variety or creative works, sketches, steps completed to complete a project, etc.
- Professional certifications in UX focused areas are encouraged.
- Experience with CSS, SCSS, & HTML is important.
- Beginner understanding of JavaScript frameworks.
- Understanding of WCAG guidelines and a working knowledge of ARIA.
- Experience in creating user personas, UAT test plans & test scenarios, user interviews, & other user feedback/requirements elicitation mechanisms.
- A bachelor s degree and seven (7) years of experience as a system engineer.
- Twelve (12) years of system engineering experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with design products like Balsamiq, Axure RP, Figma, or Adobe Suite products like Illustrator, xD, and InDesign to design sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockups/prototypes.
- Understand foundational concepts in UX design, including user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design.
- Experience articulating design concepts to a variety of audiences and explain any design decisions supported by industry standards and Usability Heuristics.
- Excellent communication skills, both writing and speaking.
- Ability to work and design independently or as a team.
- Experience with requirements management to include working with customers to capture clear definition of done