Recruitment:

• Design and develop user interfaces in a java based web application contributing in all phases of a development life cycle
• Provide the user interface solution to the end-user including look, feel, and behavior
• Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and a UI toolbox that promote ease-of-use and regulatory compliance (Section 508/WCAG)
• Establish, maintain, and enforce UI standards throughout the application
• Participate in design reviews and provide input throughout the creative process for the work of your teammates
• Conceptualize new and improved user interfaces, starting from requirements gathered by Product Owners and Architects
• Quickly develop functional prototypes to demonstrate concepts and support iterative usability reviews
• Partner with software architects and developers to ensure that prototyping techniques and technologies translate to the web-based solution (or even better: produce standards-compliant front end code using HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and other related browser-based UI frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, Ext JS)
• Present complex sets of data in ways that are easy to comprehend
• Excitement for new UI/UX design and development trends and the technologies that enable them
• Well-versed in fundamental visual and interactive design principals
• Fluent in front-end web development languages, i.e., HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Skilled in Java and AJAX
• Ability to translate high-level user requirements into design solutions
• Comfortable with an iterative design process that includes accepting and managing feedback and constructive criticism
• Knowledge and understanding of web accessibility guidelines and Section 508 compliance