User Interaction/User Experience Designer - Junior

Amentum • Washington, DC

71d • $90,000 - $100,000

About The Position

Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. Amentum is seeking a Junior UI/UX Designer to join our team of passionate individuals in Washington, DC. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the Nation's security and intelligence mission. As a Top Secret UI/UX Designer for this program, you will be working in an organization that's mission is to develop and operate the best possible software for critical national security enterprise applications. This organization leverages SCRUM and SAFE Agile software development methodology and strong Dev Ops practices. You will be responsible for developing mock-ups of intuitive interfaces. You will review user experience feedback, receive stakeholder and development team feedback and adjust accordingly. You will create and update style guides. You will work with the development teams to ensure 508 compliant designs and responsive designs based on current best practices. You will guide, mentor, and coach team members while leading projects to successful completion. You will ensure compliance with the project management methodologies and the Project Management Office processes and standards. You will research user needs as well as potential system enhancements. You will have familiarity to, or may actually: code, test, debug documents, and implement web applications using a variety of platforms. This position is contingent upon award.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Minimum of 1 years of experience.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or other related field.
• Creating visual concepts using computer software to communicate ideas that inspire, inform and captivate.
• Develop the overall layout and production design for the target audience.
• Keeping up-to-date with design trends, techniques, and technologies.
• Prioritizing tasks effectively to ensure timely delivery of high-quality designs.
• Analyzing large-scale enterprise systems for usability.
• Experience with responsive design.
• Experience writing production-quality HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Designing the visual aesthetics of digital products, including layout, typography, color schemes, and graphic elements (i.e. Wireframes).
• Ensuring visual consistency and coherence across different screens and components of the user interface.
• Ensuring that designs are accessible to users with disabilities by following accessibility guidelines and best practices.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and other designers, to align design decisions with business goals and technical feasibility.
• Embracing an iterative design process by continuously refining and improving designs based on feedback, research findings, and usability testing results.

Nice To Haves

• Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL.
• GitLab, JFROG Artifactory and Xray, Splunk, Hashicorp Vault, Boundary, Consul, Terraform, Nexus, JIRA, Crucible, Jenkins, Ansible and Ansible Tower.
• AWS Associate Level or above Certification(s).

Responsibilities

• Works with the development team to build mock-ups of intuitive interfaces.
• Works across case management development teams to provide a consistent look and feel.
• Reviews user experience feedback and adjusts accordingly.
• Works with users to understand use cases.
• Updates and maintains style guides.
• Works with the development teams to ensure 508 compliant designs.
• Works with the development teams on responsive designs based on current best practices.
• Oversees all visual design efforts.
• Guides, mentors, and coaches team members while leading projects to successful completion.
• Develops and maintains relationships with key peers in Marketing, Branding, UX leaders, IT leaders, and others to identify and plan creative solutions.
• Manages external service resources and budgets for visual design.
• Ensures successful completion of all work executed by the team (on time, on budget, and ensuring quality).
• Ensures compliance with the project management methodologies and the Project Management Office processes and standards.
• Develops, maintains, and ensures compliance of application release management, outage management, and change control processes and standards.
• Defines, creates, communicates, and manages resource plans and other required project documentation such as style guides and provides updates as necessary.
• Develops proof-of-concepts and prototypes of easy-to-navigate user interfaces (UIs) that consists of web pages with graphics, icons, and color schemes that are visually appealing.
• Research user needs as well as potential system enhancements.
• Plans, recruits, and facilitates the usability testing of a system.
• Analyzes and synthesizing the results of usability testing to provide recommendations for change to a system.
• Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 401k plan, deferred compensation plan and Executive Deferral Plan.
• 17 days of vacation per year, seven paid holidays, plus floating holidays and caregiver leave.
• Opportunity to purchase company stock.
• Performance discretionary bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees