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The Lead partners closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Agile Development Teams, and VA stakeholders to ensure design intent is preserved throughout planning, development, testing, and implementation\nLead user research activities including interviews, observation, usability testing, and other HCD techniques to gather actionable insights. \nFacilitate HCD workshops and collaborative sessions to support requirement elaboration, user story development, and design decisions.\nDevelop UX artifacts such as personas, journey maps, workflows, and experience insights that inform solution design and product strategy\nCollaborate with Business Analysts and Product Owners to maintain alignment between requirements, user needs, dependencies, and VA strategic outcomes\nContribute UX guidance and user-centric content to training materials, communications, and rollout planning to support end-user adoption\nAdvocate for customer-centric design practices that enhance usability, workflow efficiency, and end-user satisfaction across VA-EISS, MBMS, BOSS-E, and integrated systems\nQualifications\nRequired:\nBachelor’s Degree in computer science or an IT-related degree with 6-10 years' experience\nMinimum 3 years leading UX/HCD efforts on enterprise-scale platforms, preferably in government, healthcare, or regulated environments.\nDemonstrated experience supporting Agile teams, PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and user-centric requirement elaboration. \nProven experience conducting user research, usability testing, workflow analysis, and requirements validation. \nExperience developing UX artifacts including personas, journey maps, workflows, and experience insights used for feature definition and prioritization.\nExperience collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, developers, and program stakeholders to align design to business outcomes. \nExperience supporting UAT, validating design intent, and contributing to user adoption material\nPublic Trust\nPreferred:\nFamiliarity with VA/NCA; Section 508; software implementation/change management\nSalary Range: $135,000 - $160,000\nThis position is in the proposal stage. 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