Senior UIUX Developer

As the statewide administrator for USDA Child Nutrition programs the Nutrition Program Services (NPS) Division of the client s department is keenly concerned with maintaining and improving the automated information technology systems used to operate and manage all Child Nutrition (CN) Programs (i.e. School Meal Programs Summer Food Service Program and Child Summer EBT and Adult Care Food Program). To ensure that NPS can successfully continue it statewide administration of USDA nutrition programs a new application needs to be developed to handle the summer EBT program maintained and when necessary enhanced.

The goals of this project are to:

Build a new application that meets the needs of the schools and the districts for the summer EBT program.

Assist in ensuring clients compliance with USDA regulations.

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand user needs business objectives and technical constraints ensuring userfirst designs are created.

Conduct user research usability testing and data analysis to inform design decisions and improve overall user experience.

Develop UX architecture including sitemaps journey maps Wireflows and taxonomy designs to structure and organize the user experience.

Design low and highfidelity prototypes to validate design concepts and make iterative improvements based on user feedback.

Create reusable component libraries and design systems to ensure consistency and scalability across multiple platforms and applications.

Develop web components that align with modern HTML/CSS standards ensuring compliance with WCAG accessibility guidelines for an inclusive user experience.

Collaborate with developers to implement pixelperfect designs ensuring technical feasibility and seamless integration of design with development.

Provide knowledge transfer to client s staff

Desired Qualifications and Skills

5 years of professional experience UI/UX design with at least 3 years focused in design tools such as Figma Sketch Zeplin Axure Adobe XD or similar.

Professional experience directly creating humancentered designs with a deep understanding of UX/UI principles accessibility and usability along with expertise in building customer journey maps information architectures and solving design challenges using UX patterns.

Ability to work seamlessly with crossfunctional teams including product managers developers and business stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills to present design ideas and rationales to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Experience in creating interactive low and highfidelity prototypes to test ideas and concepts effectively.

Experience with A/B testing behavioural analytics and using insights to inform design decisions.

Experience in building reusable component libraries and design systems to ensure longterm scalability and consistency across projects.

Strong userfirst mindset with the ability to advocate for enduser needs in every design decision.

Critical thinking and creativity to overcome design and technical challenges.