Lead Design Technologist
About The Position
CACI is seeking an entrepreneurial Lead Design Technologist to scale human-centered design across the company within the Agile Solution Factory Center of Excellence and User Experience Factory. The role shapes user experiences for government-client solutions and advances UX practices across CACI. It combines UX design principles, interaction design, AI-enabled workflows, and front-end development to connect design with technical implementation. A central focus is building, codifying, and scaling repeatable UX solutions, including enterprise design systems and self-service applications that project teams can deploy independently. The position also provides program-specific consulting, design, and development support, helping teams solve UI/UX, front-end, and accessibility challenges. The role establishes AI-assisted design and development practices, creates guidance and documentation, and helps teams use AI securely and effectively.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience combining front-end UI engineering with UX design strategy or design system enablement.
- Strong programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern enterprise frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Proficiency in Figma architecture, including advanced knowledge of auto-layout, components, styles, and variables for design-to-code handoff.
- Understanding of digital accessibility standards, including Section 508 and WCAG.
- Knowledge of user-centered design principles and user research methods, heuristics, personas, and journey mapping.
- Practical experience using generative AI to accelerate development workflows and ability to teach others to use AI tools effectively for design output.
- Exceptional presentation skills and comfort leading product discovery, advocating for UX capabilities, and providing real-time guidance to program stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with back-end technologies such as Node.js or Python.
- A portfolio demonstrating UX engineering skills.
- Experience establishing or contributing to a UX Center of Excellence.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
- Deep understanding of accessibility standards.
- Experience on government or defense-related projects.
- Demonstrated ability to obtain government clearances.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy repeatable UX solutions, including internal applications and UI templates, so programs can create high-quality interfaces rapidly.
- Build, maintain, and scale reusable UI component libraries and enterprise design tokens, with framework architecture that integrates with AI-assisted development tools.
- Create workflows for translating Figma designs, variables, component properties, and layout logic into front-end code.
- Develop automated toolkits and self-service applications for heuristic evaluations, UX quality assessments, and Section 508 accessibility checks.
- Create and maintain playbooks covering user research, design standards, accessibility compliance, and related topics for cross-functional stakeholders and non-designers.
- Advise program managers and technical leads on design-to-development workflows, team resourcing, and UI timelines.
- Work with active programs to diagnose and resolve complex UI/UX, front-end, and accessibility challenges; deliver technical solutions and feature enhancements, and share effective patterns across programs.
- Establish standard practices for AI-assisted UI/UX tools supporting rapid prototyping, user research synthesis, and discovery.
- Write playbooks and self-service documentation to help project and program teams use AI effectively and securely while keeping generated artifacts compliant and structurally sound.
- Use generative AI to accelerate prototyping, component generation, and data synthesis.
- Lead initial product discovery, advocate for User Experience Factory capabilities, and provide real-time UX guidance to program stakeholders.
Benefits
- Flexible time off benefit.
- Learning resources and learning and development opportunities.
- Healthcare benefits.
- Wellness benefits.
- Financial benefits.
- Retirement benefits.
- Family support benefits.
- Continuing education benefits.
- Time off benefits.
- Competitive compensation and a broad mix of benefits options designed to support employees and their families.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
