About the role
Overview
- Appointment Type: Full-Time Regular (FTR)
- Location: Oak Ridge, TN
- *Salary Range: $78,436 – $107,036
PURPOSE
Develops both high-fidelity HTML mockups and low-fidelity design artifacts in collaboration with Product Owner, software developers, and stakeholders. Guides user interface development with expertise based on experience, research, and industry guidelines.
Responsibilities
Web User Interface Design
- Provides recommendations to system stakeholders based on research and industry guidelines for best practice in web user experience.
- Develops wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to illustrate user interface solutions for system requirements.
- Produces HTML prototypes, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript files to demonstrate complex functionality.
- Facilitates discussion with product owners and developers about user interface implementation, user experience, and usability issues.
- Produces and maintains a library of user interface files (graphics, HTML templates, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, ASP.Net master pages) to facilitate production of web applications, streamline development processes, and maintain consistency.
Web User Interface Implementation
Creates Section 508 compliant XHTML using CSS appropriately and creating images as needed.
Produces and maintains ASP.Net master pages, web forms, and Model-View-Controller (MVC) views in existing web applications that implement UI solutions from prototypes.
Provides Web User Interface Guidance and Troubleshooting
- Works with developers to provide HTML/XHTML, CSS, images and/or JavaScript samples and troubleshooting.
- Consults on 508 compliance issues, user experience concerns, browser compatibility, and pros/cons of specific implementations.
- Provides wiki articles and web URLs to document guidelines and industry best practices for user experience and user interface development.
Other duties as assigned
Serves in other capacities such as organizational-wide teams, internal ISD process improvement initiatives, and miscellaneous works assignments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Communications, Graphic Design or related field and 2-4 years of directly related experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience performing duties as described may be substituted for the minimum requirements.
- Must have demonstrated excellent written and oral skills.
- Experience with development team and stakeholder collaboration on large-scale enterprise applications.
- 2+ years producing web user interface prototypes.
- 2+ years’ experience with Section 508, HTML/XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Required
Microsoft Visual Studio
CSS Preprocessor frameworks (SCSS, LESS)
Source Control
WCAG 2.1/Section 508 compliance
Web and mobile application testing tools
UI Design frameworks (Bootstrap)
Client-side JavaScript for interaction design
Design applications for wireframes and static design artifacts (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud)
Preferred
Microsoft TFS DevOps
SQL Server Management Studio (for local db)
js/Gulp.js build tools
Axe Accessibility Validator
jQuery and related plugins (DataTables, jQuery UI)
*The candidate’s starting salary will be determined upon hire and ORAU will use salary survey data, internal comparators, and the candidate’s qualifications to determine salary.
TOTAL REWARDS
ORAU has a strategic approach to providing total rewards to employees through a fair, equitable, and competitive total compensation package. The goal of our total rewards system is to integrate compensation, benefits, work-life balance, performance, recognition, development, and career opportunities to attract, engage, and retain the talent required to achieve ORAU’s business objectives. The benefit component of our total rewards program supports business goals by offering the following benefits based on employee eligibility:
Legally required benefits
Group Health insurance including: Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision
Retirement plan contribution matching
Disability insurance
Group life insurance
Travel Accident Insurance
Section 125 reimbursement accounts
Other voluntary employee paid benefit and insurance offerings
The ORAU total reward package also promotes work-life balance. Mindful of the need for employees to care for themselves and their families, ORAU offers the following additional work-life benefits based on employee eligibility:
Telework
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays
Flexible work schedules or compressed work weeks
Occupational Health and Wellness Programs
Employee Assistance Program