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Two Six Technologies · 5 hours ago

UI/UX Lead Developer

Herndon, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $230K/yr

8+ years exp

Two Six Technologies is focused on building innovative products to tackle complex challenges. As a UI/UX Lead Developer, you will lead a small team to create engaging user interfaces for mission-critical systems, ensuring alignment with user needs and improving overall user experience.

Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologyNetwork Security

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead the UI Team: You'll directly lead our small talented UI team, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative environment. Your leadership will help build designs that prioritize user engagement and satisfaction.You will also act as the lead for user engagement

Stakeholder Engagement: Meet regularly with program leadership and management to discuss project status, roadmaps, and strategic UI/UX initiatives, ensuring a unified vision for user engagement across the product

Cross-functional Partnership: Work closely with the Data and Analytics SME, Solution Architect, and Product Manager to define and refine features, ensuring UI/UX aligns with data capabilities and architectural vision, all with an eye toward improving the user journey

Requirements Definition: Collaborate directly with Product to help define and refine requirements for UI features, translating high-level concepts into actionable design and development tasks that enhance user interaction

Deep User Collaboration & Engagement: Proactively engage directly with users to understand their workflows, pain points, and preferences. You'll gather feedback to continuously refine designs and validate solutions, ensuring the UI is meeting the mission needs efficiently and effectively

Jira Management: Assist with the creation and ongoing management of Jira content, workflows, and boards to streamline UI/UX team tasks and project tracking, ensuring user-centric tasks are prioritized

Oversee Design Excellence: Take ownership of the software, visual, and UX design, ensuring consistency, usability, and aesthetic appeal across the application. Your focus will be on creating interfaces that are not only efficient but also intuitive and visually appealing

Standard & Rule Development: Develop and enforce UI/UX standards, design rules, and style guides to ensure a cohesive and high-quality user experience that promotes ease of use and familiarity

Prototyping & Mock-ups: Lead the creation of interactive prototypes and mock-ups to visualize design concepts, gather early user feedback, and iterate quickly, ensuring designs are tested and validated by potential users before full development

Future Concept Development: Spearhead the development of future UI/UX concepts for the tool, anticipating user needs and technological advancements to keep our interface at the cutting edge of user engagement

Process Flow Improvement: Continuously analyze and find ways to improve current UI/UX workflows and processes, making them more efficient and user-friendly for both the team and end-users, ultimately enhancing the overall product experience

Plumage Update Suggestions: Work closely with external groups that provide core UI components ("plumage") to propose and guide updates, ensuring they meet our evolving design and functional requirements for optimal user interaction

UI Implementation: Assist with UI implementation as able, jumping into code to help unblock the team, set examples, ensuring the implemented UI aligns with the user engagement goals

Iterative Design: Guide the implementation of UI features and actively iterate on designs ensuring continuous improvement in usability and engagement

Qualification

JavaScript frameworksUI/UX design principlesUser-centered developmentAgile software developmentJavaScript unit testingCloud-based technologiesDevSecOps principlesAtlassian tool suiteDocumentation skillsLeadershipCollaborationSelf-starter

Required

A minimum of 8 years of software development experience with a strong emphasis on front-end development and UI/UX design, including at least 2 years in a lead or senior design role

Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript programming languages and modern frameworks (e.g., Angular, React)

Demonstrated experience leading UI/UX design and development efforts from concept to deployment, with a proven track record of creating highly engaging user interfaces

Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, and usability best practices, with a strong focus on driving user satisfaction and adoption

Experience with JavaScript unit testing (e.g., Jasmine) and end-to-end testing (e.g., Cypress)

Proficiency in evaluating current test coverage and defining additional tests for vital code coverage

Familiarity with modern software development practices, cloud-based technologies, and DevSecOps principles

Experience providing remote technical support to mission operators and analysts, and effectively translating their operational needs into UI/UX improvements

Strong documentation skills and experience preparing and delivering briefs to senior government leadership, articulating UI/UX strategies and their impact on users

Comprehensive understanding of milestones and expectations within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Proven experience on an Agile software development team, including delivering iterative software solutions (features, enhancements, bug fixes) with a focus on user feedback loops

Demonstrated ability to work as a self-starter with minimal daily oversight and to effectively lead a team, inspiring a user-centric approach

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university

Active TS/SCI with polygraph