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The ideal candidate will also possess strong expertise in Information Architecture (IA), including the organization, structure, labeling, navigation, and discoverability of complex information and application functionality. This role requires a candidate who can provide detailed and useful interface design specifications to development teams, ensuring the creation of intuitive, user-friendly applications.\nKey Responsibilities:\nProvide subject matter expertise in UX design, offering strategic guidance grounded in Human-Centered Design and design thinking methodologies, including user research, personas, journey mapping, prototyping, mockups, and usability evaluation.\nProvide subject matter expertise in Information Architecture, defining scalable structures, navigation models, taxonomies, labeling systems, content hierarchies, and information relationships that enable users to efficiently find, understand, and complete tasks.\nCreate and deliver a User Experience (UX) Research Plan and Outcomes for each use case, which shall include a research write-up documenting goals, anticipated outcomes, research questions, hypotheses, methodology, recruiting needs, synthesis, and next steps.\nFacilitate discovery activities, to include generative research with users and business stakeholders, an assessment of current related features, a content review, an information architecture review, an accessibility review, a business process review; and collection of any available data and analytics and provide in a User Experience Research Checklist.\nPartner with other Product Teams to ensure that the new tool or service fits into the existing structure.\nCollaborate across Product Teams to establish consistent navigation, terminology, categorization, and information structures across features, applications, and services.\nLead the design and development of user interfaces for various applications, ensuring they are visually appealing, user-friendly, and efficient.\nProvide clear and actionable interface design specifications to development teams.\nDesign dynamic forms and other complex UI components, including rich cards and drag & drop features.\nDefine and maintain UX frameworks and templates for developers to use during the coding process.\nDefine and maintain Information Architecture standards, patterns, and documentation to promote consistency, scalability, and usability across the product ecosystem.\nApply insights from user experience research studies to describe product functionality, including epics and user stories, as well as operational, business, functional, technical, data, and integration requirements.\nSupport design synthesis activities and generate insights and opportunities for improvement. Communicate research findings through a variety of formats (such as insight reports, stories, videos, storyboards, etc.) to maximize relevance and impact.\nPerform requirements analysis based on User Experience Research, obtaining stakeholder input from internal users and external users.\nDevelop User Personas to represent user types that have wants and needs of our applications and products, and who might use our applications and products in a similar way.\nCreate Customer and User Journey Maps and capture related data.\nMap user journeys, workflows, content, and system functionality to an overall Information Architecture to ensure individual features support a coherent end-to-end user experience.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and other designers.\nConduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback on designs and apply results to refine designs.\nWrite and edit plain language content for Development Teams.\nEstablish clear, consistent, and user-centered terminology and labeling conventions in collaboration with UX, content, business, and technical stakeholders.\nDesign, test, and deliver low- and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and interactive web forms, updating them as needed to support stakeholder collaboration, usability testing, facilitated demos, and iterative design improvements.\nLead user testing sessions and conduct thorough analysis to inform design improvements.\nEstablish and uphold design standards across project components.\nEstablish and uphold Information Architecture standards across project components, ensuring consistency in navigation, hierarchy, terminology, categorization, and content organization.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs.\nWork with ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Tailwind to develop and refine user interfaces.\nDesign within a micro-service architecture to create scalable and maintainable solutions.\nQualifications:\nMA/MS plus 10+ years of general experience in information systems with 8+ years of specialized experience.\nHS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years)\nFamiliarity with front-end development and specifically in ReactJS and JavaScript development.\nFamiliarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices in user centered design.\nExtensive experience developing Information Architecture for complex enterprise applications, including navigation structures, taxonomies, hierarchies, labeling systems, and information models.\nExperience conducting IA research and validation methods such as card sorting, tree testing, content inventories, taxonomy evaluation, and navigation testing.\nExperience creating and maintaining IA deliverables such as site maps, application maps, navigation models, taxonomy documentation, content hierarchies, and information architecture diagrams.\nExperience with designing software to align to strategic business needs and goals.\nExperience in conducting research for advanced technologies to determining how IT can support business needs leveraging software, hardware, or infrastructure.\nExperience in Figma or other related design tool.\nExperience in usability testing tools.\nExcellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders.\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.\nProven track record of delivering scalable and reliable software solutions.\nA portfolio demonstrating expertise in UI/UX design and relevant projects, including experience with Information Architecture deliverables and the organization of complex enterprise applications or digital products.\nProven experience in designing dynamic forms with a strong emphasis on intuitive user experience and efficient design.\nExtensive experience in creating CSS cards and drag & drop functionality.\nExperience on UX strategy, user researcher, user interviews, surveys, and usability study. Builds personas, user journey map, empathy maps.\nExperience on UX analysis to conduct competitive analysis, market assessments and heuristic evaluations.\nExperienced in using user feedback to inform UX improvements and guide design decisions.\nExtensive hands-on experience in developing and testing wireframes and prototypes.\nDetailed knowledge of Section 508 requirements, and experience designing interfaces to be 508 compliant.\nUnderstanding of accessibility considerations related to Information Architecture, including accessible navigation, heading hierarchy, meaningful labels, consistent terminology, and predictable information structures.\nDemonstrated ability to generate innovative solutions to complex design problems.\nSolid background in defining and maintaining design standards.\nSolid background in defining and maintaining Information Architecture standards and governance across large or complex applications.\nExperience working with tools like Jira, Confluence extensively for work item tracking and documentation.\nExperience working in an agile environment with a knowledge of SAFe.\nUnderstanding of Agile methodologies.\nCommunication and Organizational\nExcellent presentation and communication (oral and written) skills.\nConsultant mindset with the ability to work with high level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationship.\nExperience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods best practices, and emerging technologies.\nStrong analytical skills and problem-solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement.\nExperienced with process design and documentation methodologies, and design and production of quality deliverables, process and use case modeling, business case development.\nAbility to facilitate Information Architecture workshops and alignment sessions with users, stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams to establish shared understanding of terminology, navigation, hierarchy, and application structure.\nAbility to clearly communicate and document Information Architecture decisions, rationale, dependencies, and recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team.\nStrong project management, leadership & meeting facilitation skill with knowledge of Project Life Cycle\nThe likely salary range for this position is $129,813 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.Scheduled Weekly Hours:\n40Travel Required:\nNoneTelecommuting Options:\nRemoteWork Location:\nAny Location / RemoteAdditional Work Locations:\nTotal Rewards at GDIT:\nOur benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.Our Identity Verification Process:\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. 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