Title - UI/UX Developer

Location - Dupont Circle - onsite 2 days a week

Pay: 45-48/hr

Description

Our Client is looking for a UI/UX Developer who will be responsible for implementing the interactive experience and visual elements for all digital properties (ecommerce, app, subsites, etc). This position is increasingly critical as has embraced personalization, multivariate testing, and multiple software platforms that comprise a connected customer experience (eCommerce, community, eLearning, and marketing personalization). The UI/UX Developer will be responsible for gathering business requirements, designing flexible and resilient digital solutions, aligning web design and user experience, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency, and delivering high-quality UI code for our properties. In addition, this person will work with external development vendors on enhancements and code changes to web properties.

Responsibilities

• UX Design and UI Development
• Work with project stakeholders to understand project goals, outcomes and corresponding UX needs
• Manage web design & development project timelines and communications, to ensure shared understanding of goals, steps, and timelines with project stakeholders and critical project contributors
• Collaborate with other UI/UX developers, content strategists, and UX designers to develop design solutions, through whiteboarding, wireframes, and prototyping.
• Design user-focused, user-friendly digital experiences that meet stakeholder needs.
• Leverage branding, look and mood for the overall project and maintain digital brand consistency throughout design
• Support UX research studies, testing, and analytics gathering; and recommend the use of these tools where appropriate to assess a business problem or design solution
• Develop and maintain front-end code on web properties:
• Collaborate with UX team in developing reusable front-end code that meets project needs and overall vision for web properties
• Build high-quality, interactive prototypes that can be used by back-end developers and shared with project stakeholders
• Work with third party support team of back-end developers to optimize web pages
• Ensure web design is optimized for mobile, tablet, and web devices; and works well cross-platform and cross-browser
• Develop UI code with accessibility best-practices in mind, and support mitigation of ADA compliance issues identified by our vendor
• Support ad hoc requests for front-end code needs, from other departments, for external digital projects
• Maintain the style guide, as code changes, to support internal clients, content authors, and external vendors
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, meetings and process with third party support team:
• Create user stories for bugs and new designs, that reflect business problems, potential solutions, and necessary requirements to satisfy the story.
• Support the Product Owner in and the Agile team in grooming of all user stories created by designers and stakeholders, to ensure they are well-scoped, feasible, and actionable, and team members have a shared understanding of the work needed.
• Contribute to daily standups. Identify risks that threaten sprint commitments, and elevate them to the Agile team for support and mitigation.
• Share code contributions through JIRA and Git, and collaborate with the team to ensure code is built into higher environments and tested on schedule for a successful sprint.
• Assist in QA before all code deployments, to ensure that developed code delivers expected results and there is no unexpected degradation of existing code
• Support deployment efforts for website and other digital properties
• Help to resolve issues with unexpected Sitecore behaviors
• Work with content team to advise internal clients on how best to accomplish their goals while working within style guidelines and available technical features for website
• Set up complex or novel layouts for the content team, leveraging available data templates, layouts, and components
• Optimize on-site search behavior to deliver the search results needed by both users and the business Support content entry and editing efforts as needed
• Experience collecting requirements is a plus
  
  

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience working in UI/UX development.
• Four-year degree in a related field - such as HCI, computer science, or visual design – desired; equivalent professional experience may be demonstrated instead.
• Understanding of key web design principles
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
• Experience working with mobile-first CSS, and creating cross-browser cross-platform code.
• Prior work with a .NET platform such as Sitecore
• Understanding of server-side CSS
• Experience exporting and manipulating graphics from Adobe suite required, experience with generating wireframes and prototypes, especially with Axure, a plus
• Familiarity with either Azure DevOps or JIRA, including coordinating code commitments for deployment. Experience with both systems is a plus
• Experience working with GitHub
• Experience working with developers to provide code that meets business requirements of the CMS
• Familiar with accessibility standards and willingness to work with external ADA Audit
• Team to solve accessibility issues
• Excellent verbal communication skills and good interpersonal skills
• A strong portfolio of prior work products, with a clear explanation of personal contributions to the end product
• Experience working with other designers in an iterative, user-centric design process in
• UX design/interactive prototyping
• Good problem-solving skills
  
  

Preferred Certifications

• Certification in a .NET CMS systems, especially Sitecore
• Understanding of SEO principles
• Good problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with using schema.org microdata
  
  

Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.