Senior UX Architect

Job Requisition ID: 17941

Additional Locations: Hybrid position - expected to work in the office 1-2 days per week on average

Senior UX Architect

Responsibilities

• Create roadmaps for UX designs, UX Frameworks and Components as well as UX development processes across multiple teams.
• Translate business requirements into wireframes, mock-ups, Prototypes, and well-formed technical requirements.
• Collaborate with and provide leadership to software engineers in terms of designing applications to use UX frameworks and components and ensuring that teams are adopting best practices and patterns.
• Provide domain knowledge leadership across multiple development teams.
• Ensure teams are converging towards a common customer experience and information architecture across all channels.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Communicate strategies and designs to all audiences: Development teams, Design Teams, and management.

Requirements

• Awareness of current computing trends and technologies
• Ability to design and implement UX SPA’s using modern UX frameworks. 
• Experience with Jira/Confluence, GHE/Github
• Containerized UX Application Development experience
• Experience with AWS Cloudfront or similar CDN’s, Jenkins, Concourse
• Superior communication skills.
• Demonstrated abilities: self-motivation, creativity, a willingness, and ability to learn, resourcefulness, intuition, thoroughness, and the ability to work with others
• Minimum of 5 years designing and building React based SPA’s, reusable UX components, and UX frameworks.
• 5 or more years’ experience developing methods and tools for creating taxonomies, user flow diagrams and screen layouts, as well as demonstrate a fundamentally understanding of the methods and concepts related to findability and usability.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, applied mathematics, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Experience with user acceptance processes and methods.
• Experience with low code UX development methods and technologies.

Physical Requirements

• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• The person in this position needs to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.

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