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This role will apply human-centered design methods to the design and modernization of technical products, platforms, workflows, dashboards, and digital experiences supporting VA stakeholders and end users.\nThe successful candidate will combine strong HCD expertise with technical fluency, enabling them to understand business and user needs, work effectively with technical teams, and translate research findings into designs that can be implemented within enterprise technology environments. This individual will lead design efforts for solutions such as Microsoft Power Platform applications and dashboards, SharePoint experiences, data visualization products, workflow tools, and other digital solutions.\nThis is a design-focused role rather than a software development position. The HCD Specialist will develop the user experience, information architecture, workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications and partner closely with developers and technical teams for implementation.\nAs a Level IV individual contributor, this position is expected to independently lead complex HCD workstreams, solve ambiguous design challenges, develop advanced design solutions, and deliver high-quality work with limited oversight. The individual will also collaborate with LMI's broader HCD community of practice to promote consistent methods, standards, and lessons learned\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\nResponsibilities\nHuman-Centered Technical Design\nLead end-to-end HCD activities for new technical solutions, major enhancements, and redesign efforts.\nTranslate stakeholder and user needs into intuitive, usable, accessible, and technically feasible digital experiences.\nDesign experiences for solutions that may include Microsoft Power Platform applications and dashboards, SharePoint sites and solutions, analytics products, workflow tools, and other enterprise digital platforms.\nDevelop information architectures, navigation structures, user flows, task flows, process flows, and interaction models.\nCreate low-, medium-, and high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, clickable prototypes, and design concepts.\nDevelop clear design specifications and developer handoff materials that enable technical teams to implement approved designs.\nPartner with developers, solution architects, analysts, product owners, and technical leads to understand platform capabilities and constraints and ensure designs are feasible for implementation.\nReview implemented solutions against approved designs and user experience requirements and recommend refinements when appropriate.\nHCD Discovery and Research\nPlan and conduct stakeholder interviews, user interviews, discovery sessions, contextual inquiry, workshops, usability testing, and other qualitative research activities.\nIdentify user needs, pain points, goals, workflows, constraints, and opportunities through structured HCD research.\nSynthesize qualitative findings into themes, insights, design principles, user needs, and actionable recommendations.\nDevelop personas, journey maps, experience maps, service blueprints, workflows, and other HCD artifacts as appropriate.\nValidate design concepts through stakeholder feedback, prototype testing, and usability testing.\nIterate designs based on research findings, technical considerations, accessibility requirements, and user feedback.\nMagnify Reports and HCD Documentation\nContribute to and, when assigned, lead development of Magnify Reports, the formal HCD deliverable produced for each SBIR contract.\nTranslate research and design activities into clear documentation of stakeholder needs, user insights, findings, opportunities, recommendations, and proposed design approaches.\nCreate executive-ready presentations and visual artifacts that communicate HCD findings and design recommendations to VA and LMI stakeholders.\nMaintain clear documentation connecting research findings to design decisions.\nAccessibility and Inclusive Design\nIncorporate Section 508, WCAG, accessibility, and inclusive-design principles throughout the design process.\nDesign experiences that account for users with varying levels of technical proficiency, accessibility needs, roles, and work environments.\nPartner with development and testing teams to identify potential accessibility concerns early in the solution lifecycle.\nCollaboration and HCD Practice\nWork collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams that may include developers, analysts, data scientists, program evaluators, healthcare subject matter experts, product owners, and program leadership.\nFacilitate collaborative design sessions, design reviews, and working sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nClearly communicate design rationale, research findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations.\nParticipate in LMI's HCD community of practice, sharing methods, templates, design approaches, lessons learned, and reusable assets.\nPromote practical application of HCD throughout technical delivery without serving as a formal people manager.\nWork within Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid delivery environments and incorporate HCD activities into iterative development cycles.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Human-Centered Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, UX Design, Information Design, Psychology, Information Systems, or a related field.\n7+ years of experience in human-centered design, UX design, product design, service design, interaction design, or a related discipline.\nDemonstrated experience independently leading complex digital product or enterprise-technology design efforts.\nStrong experience conducting stakeholder and user research and translating findings into actionable design recommendations.\nDemonstrated ability to develop wireframes, user flows, information architectures, journey maps, interactive prototypes, and detailed design specifications.\nProficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Axure, Miro, or comparable tools.\nExperience working collaboratively with software developers, architects, analysts, and technical teams.\nTechnical fluency sufficient to design solutions within enterprise platforms and communicate effectively with development 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