Director UI UX Engineering

About the position

The User Experience Director will lead the UX CoE team and specialize in planning, designing, developing, and testing user interfaces and user experience components for all products, platforms, solutions, and tools for the firm. Provides user experience design, usability, evaluation, and testing expertise to product development teams, including the analysis, investigation, and selection of applications and methods to improve user interaction through look, feel, process flow and choice of adaptable elements. Performs technical review of proposed design and product changes for feasibility, integration with existing technical architectures and systems, and alignment with desired user experience and design standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UX CoE - an established and dedicated team of user experience designers and developers
• Lead needed technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability
• Work with project teams to conduct extensive UX and design reviews sought at incorporating UCD principles into the application development lifecycle
• Ensure application meets the performance, privacy, and security requirements
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to UX/UI designs and business solutions
• Help develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements
• Implement technology-specific standard processes that are consistent with corporate standards
• Partner with multi-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project results
• Manage the software development process
• Drive new technical and business process improvements
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design
• Construct application UI/UX architecture encompassing end-to-end designs
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Efficiently work on multiple projects

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and / or equivalent experience
• Leadership and hands on interaction design experience, information architecture, UX strategy mostly in the Finance domain (10 years)
• Must have strong frontend design and development experience - Figma, Angular and React
• Experience in Web based UI development
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and similar UI frameworks (jQuery, React)
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems.
• Exposure in Java/J2EE Based Applications demonstrated ability with Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, Jacoco and Maven
• Experience with containers like OpenShift is a plus.
• Experience with Messaging, ETL or Reporting tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology
• Proven experience as a Director or similar role
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering sophisticated IT solutions on schedule and within budget
• Solid understanding of web development methodologies, tools, and standard processes
• Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to empower and encourage multi-functional teams
• Strong business insight and ability to align technical objectives with strategic business goals
• Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership skills
• Ability to navigate and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)