UI/UX Developer Senior

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:

• 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, 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.

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. 

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.