CACI is seeking a UI/UX Designer to join their BEAGLE Agile Solution Factory Team supporting Customs and Border Protection in Northern Virginia. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to design user-centered software applications and ensuring a cohesive user experience across platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI/UX design and development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles
- Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes
- Responsible for:
- Conceptualizing and designing custom software application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
- Lead the design of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across the applications
- Taking a leadership role in collaborations between the creative strategy, UX, visual design, development team, and client to create effective design strategies
- Developing compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives
- Collaborating with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards
- Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders
- Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications
- Work closely the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements
- Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
- Providing mentoring to junior members of the team
Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but is not limited to: 3 year check for felony convictions, 1 year check for illegal drug use, 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud
- Degree in a related field, such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or Human Factors
- Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports
- Professional Experience: 5 + years' experience as a visual designer, interaction designer, experience designer or a similar role
- Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), Axure, or similar tools
- Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management
- Ability to understand trade-offs between designs, technical feasibility, and maintenance
- Knowledge of modern front-end systems and open source frameworks (Angular)
- Ensure applications are intuitive, effective, and deliver the customer value defined by program management
- Move design projects through the product design process, including discovery, concept, detailed design and implementation, facilitating progress at each stage
- Use your passion for solving tough user challenges through great design
- Influence design and experience across all applications to ensure a valuable and consistent customer experience
- Experience defining design systems and design standards for enterprise use
- Establish and champion UX design vision, standards, and best practices to peers and program leaders that align with program goals
- Stay current on important industry and customer trends to ensure our applications are delivering relevant solutions
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions
- Design, visualize and communicate the user experience for our products through concepts, maps, diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity visuals and other artifacts
- Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver designs backed by qualitative and quantities testing
- Experience with responsive and mobile-first design
- Willing to take risks and champion new ideas
- Have experience designing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools
- Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs
- Able to work and be effective in an agile design environment
- Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Figma, Axure, Sketch, Invision, XD, etc)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic and a self-starter
- Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations
- Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards)
- Experience with information architecture
- Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices
- Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles
- Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas
- Additionally, familiarity with any of the following is highly desirable: HTML, Angular, CSS, JavaScript