UI/UX Design Developer

GoAhead Solutions has a great opportunity for a UI/UX Programmer in Columbus, OH. This would be a Four plus month contract to start out. This would be an onsite position. Interviews will be conducted through video and then an in-person is required after the video interview.

Job Description:

-The selected Consultant will be directly responsible for designing a modern intuitive UI/UX, and will have direct experience interacting with business users to create the UI/UX.

-They will work closely with the designated Business Users, I.T. supervisor, project managers, and development staff within an agile development environment maintaining a user-centered design approach as you tackle complex design problems and influence product strategy.

-Proactively identifying areas of the product that need improvement and driving those improvements into a product roadmap.

-The Consultant, in working with Company staff, will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing user interface using Prototyping Designer tools. The new applications will implement an N-tier architecture and comply with Company coding standards.

Responsibilities:

-Participate in meetings with stakeholders, business users, and engineering teams to understand and project UI requirements.

-Design wireframes and interactive prototypes and user-friendly designs that support complex business processes.

-Work on various stages of the product development process from discovery to research to design user interface.

-Test and iterate various product concepts with users; conduct user research and analysis to validate the design.

-Work with project managers, developers, and business analysts to brainstorm ideas, approaches, and design solutions.

-Experience in creating ‘Design System’ Library for reusability.

-Create a seamless UI handoff process to development team.

-Ensure that user interface and experience designs follow best practices and comply with security requirements.

-Integration with Backend: Work closely with backend developers to integrate front-end components.

-Participate in backlog grooming sessions and other agile ceremonies to ensure Agile development teams have a good understanding of the proposed UI design to implement successfully.

-Strong communication/ leadership skills.

-Strong influence, collaboration, and negotiation experience.

-Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.

-Ability to communicate ideas to a wide variety of stakeholders, lead discussions and creative activities, and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.

-Ability to lead and manage large design initiatives, including managing competing priorities with product and engineering peers.

-Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.

-Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.

-Have strong understanding of prioritization stemming from the elicitation of system and/or user requirements.

-Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

-Must be knowledgeable in the English language/speak clearly and understandably use the English language.

-Provides technical guidance and mentoring to technical staff.

Required skills:

-8 years of Verifiable experience intaking user interface requirements and using them to design graphical interfaces in applications.

-8 years of Advanced understanding of site architecture, and designing intuitive user interface and navigations.

-8 years of Experience developing a project within the AGILE methodology.

-8 years of Experience with Front end UI - Html with Bootstrap and Fluent UI framework, CSS, and JavaScript.

-5 years of Experience with Designer tools Figma. An ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge.

-5 years of Experience designing and delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team

-5 years of Experience with ASP.NET C–Sharp (C#) language

-Required A demonstrable understanding of implementing secure UI design and coding practices for an ASP.NET MVC application.

-Highly desired UI/UX Certification will be highly advantageous.