Senior Software Engineer UI / UX at GVA Partners

Job Roles

• Create intuitive front-end user experience for various web applications
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, the development team and Scrum Master to develop, design, build and launch the product.

Functions & Responsibilities

• Assign Responsibilities and tasks to staff.
• Oversee the technologies, tools and techniques used within the team.
• Ensure that development standards, policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management.
• Requirement analysis – carries our analysis of competitive products, user needs etc.
• Interface, prototype and interaction design
• User testing – beauty of the interface and the feasibility of the product by the user
• Leads the user experience and interface efforts for the team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality product for end users
• Creates mock-ups and wireframes for both mobile and web pages that the front-end or full stack developer can translate into code
• Produces high quality graphics, visual styles and visual elements in accordance to design guidelines
• Creates prototypes that showcase the user flow and interactions
• Conducts user experience research and testing through media such as A/B testing, interviews, etc.
• Designs and delivers elegant and delightful product experiences as part of a cross-functional agile product teams
• Actively collaborates with business / Brand stakeholders throughout the design and development process
• Researches, identifies and articulates customer needs
• Clearly articulates design needs and key decisions to business stakeholders across markets and brands collaborating closely with Product Leads and Product Owners
• Builds prototypes and designs tests to validate customer needs, requirements and behaviors
• Helps Product Leads and Product Owners define both long and short-term vision and roadmap for digital products at client digital unit
• Collaborates with other designers within and cross-team to problem solve design challenges and maintain a level of design consistency and coherence across products.
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness).
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Task success rate
• Active time – amount of time spent to complete the project
• Lead time – amount of time from inception to delivery
• System usability scale
• Product Interface Design and user experience
• Overall satisfaction of the project owner.

Qualifications
Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline

Professional Qualification:

• Must possess relevant professional qualifications

Minimum Experience:

• 3 – 5 Years experience with designing consumer quality products including mobile.

Skills / Competence Requirements:
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Scrum/Agile or Kanban software development processes
• Ability to design clear and creative wireframes to guide team
• Graphical and visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software
• Experience with planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing and rapid prototyping
• Solid knowledge and experience with agile software development
• Experience as a developer is a plus
• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines
• Strong sense of ownership of solution and not afraid to speak up to ensure the user angle is heard by the product owner
• Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing
• Passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
• Experience with designing quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
• Well-rounded, user-centered design portfolio that spans some combination of web, mobile, tablet, TV, and wearables.
• Graphical and Visual design skills, including use of a diverse set of software such as Adobe suite, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Azure, or other tools for graphic design, visual design
• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping
• Sees value in iterative approach to design.