UI/UX Designer II

Brief Project Description

This is a critical design position needed to drive the development and support of the IRIS 2.0 modernization project, a full replacement of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation's case management system. Candidates will play an integral role on self directed project teams working on this high priority development project.

Project work will include: reviewing the legacy IRIS system, working with users and business analysts to understand business requirements, design new workflows for the modern system, redesign exisitng workflows, wireframe and prototype ideas, conduct usability research, champion modern design principles in our development, conduct usability, accessibility, workflow, and integration testing, provide guidance on issues pertaining to user experience, desig beautiful and usable UI components, including leveraging our material design library, to provide a modern, easy-to-use system for DVR users.

Successful candidates will have demonstrated success in designing beautiful, accessible, and intuitive web applications.

Hardware/Software Environment

Azure SQL

.NET Framework 6

.NET Framework 8

Blazor Framework

MudBlazor Material Design Library

Visual Studio .NET

Azure Cloud Computing Platform

GitHub

Jira

Swagger

Microservices Architecture

Job Requirements

Candidate MUST be a WI resident or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting the role.

Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:

1. Experience as a lead designer in an development project, preferably involving modernization of technology, as well as working with a cross-functional team to redesign and simplify UX and workflows to meet modern application design standards, using a material design library and component framework, such as MudBlazor - 2 years experience

2. Experience creating wireframes/prototypes and iterating over them with cross-functional stakeholders - 4 years experience

3. Experience creating personas and testing designs against the personas - 4 years experience

4. Knowledgeable of modern code implementations, US web design standards, and product strategy - 4 years experience

Nice to Have Skills:

1. Experience working within Agile principles and processes - 2 years

2. Experience using MudBlazor material design library - 1 year

3. Experience training software developers and business analysts on UX principles and best practices - 2 years

Qualifications:

Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation (Nice to have; 2 years)

Excellent oral and written communication skills (Must Have)

Analytical/problem solving skills (Must Have)

Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support (Nice to have; 1 year)

Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools and applications (Nice to have; 1 year)

MS Office Products (Nice to have; 1 year)

MS Office 2010/O365 (Nice to have; 1 year)

Project (MS) (Nice to have; 1 year)

Excel (MS) (Nice to have; 1 year)

Word (MS) (Nice to have; 1 year)

Outlook (MS) (Nice to have; 1 year)

Change management (Must Have; 4 years)

Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile' (Nice to have; 4 years)

Project Management (Nice to have; 2 years)

.Net (MS) (Nice to have; 1 year)

ASP.NET (Nice to have; 1 year)

VB.NET (Nice to have; 1 year)

Documenting requirements (Must Have; 4 years)

Experience as a developer in a large, very complex organization (Nice to have; 1 year)

In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables foreach phase of development (Must Have; 2 years)

Requirements analysis (Must Have; 4 years)

Requirements gathering (Nice to have; 1 year)

User test, System test, and User Acceptance test plans (Must Have; 2 years)

Experience in Azure Cloud development (Nice to have; 1 year)

Wireframing and Prototyping (Must Have; 4 years)

Experience using GitHub (Nice to have; 1 year)

Web design principles (Must Have; 4 years)

Accessible and responsive design (Must Have; 4 years)

Personas (Must Have; 4 years)

Empathy mapping or equivalent (Must Have)