About the position
CACI is currently looking for a UI/UX Designer with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity. HYBRID options available!
Responsibilities
- Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI/UX design and development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles.
- Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.
- Conceptualizing and designing custom software application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
- Lead the design of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across the applications.
- Taking a leadership role in collaborations between the creative strategy, UX, visual design, development team, and client to create effective design strategies.
- Developing compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives.
- Collaborating with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards.
- Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders.
- Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications.
- Work closely with the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements.
- Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports.
- Providing mentoring to junior members of the team.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation.
- Degree in a related field, such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or Human Factors and seven (7) years of related experience.
- Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports.
- Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), Axure, or similar tools.
- Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management.
- Knowledge of modern front-end systems and open source frameworks (Angular).
- Ensure applications are intuitive, effective, and deliver the customer value defined by program management.
- Move design projects through the product design process, including discovery, concept, detailed design and implementation, facilitating progress at each stage.
- Experience defining design systems and design standards for enterprise use.
- Establish and champion UX design vision, standards, and best practices to peers and program leaders that align with program goals.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions.
- Design, visualize and communicate the user experience for our products through concepts, maps, diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity visuals and other artifacts.
- Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver designs backed by qualitative and quantitative testing.
- Experience with responsive and mobile-first design.
- Have experience designing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools.
- Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs.
- Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Figma, Axure, Sketch, Invision, XD, etc).
Nice-to-haves
- Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations.
- Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards).
- Experience with information architecture.
- Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices.
- Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles.
- Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
- Familiarity with HTML, Angular, CSS, JavaScript.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Flexible time off benefit.
- Access to robust learning resources.
