Senior UI/UX Designer II with Security Clearance

About the role

CGS is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to join our team supporting a wide-ranging technical support initiative for a large Federal agency. The ideal candidate will lead full-scale UX design efforts, manage multiple sites and applications, collaborate with federal practice engineers and clients, and create scalable design resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems.
• Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions.
• Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders.
• Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications.
• Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust.
• Strong UX design experience.
• 10+ years combined professional design experience (UCD, UI/UX design).
• Strong online portfolio that showcases the candidate's ability to make research-driven decisions in the design of responsive web and mobile applications.
• Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence.
• Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards.
• Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools.
• Strong understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation).
• Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations.
• Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards.
• Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements.
• Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups.
• Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages.
• Self-starter, motivated, confident, and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Success on projects designed from scratch as well as redesigns for established platforms or products.
• Experience mentoring/leading junior designers.
• Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS).
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Pay

$164,736 - $237,952 per year

Schedule

Full-time