User Experience/User Interface (UI/UX) Developer

We are GDIT. We stay at the forefront of innovation to solve complex technical challenges. 

GDIT is your place. Make it your own by discovering new ways to securely and expertly apply the latest technology. Own your opportunity at GDIT and you’ll be a meaningful part of improving how agencies operate. Our work depends on a UI/UX Developer joining our team to support one of our federal customers in Rockville, MD.

At GDIT, we foster a people-centric environment. As a UI/UX Developer, you will be trusted to support a client’s internet initiative. The developer will deliver innovative solutions for improving the effectiveness, reach, and content of the internet site to improve the effectiveness of the client’s workforce. This role requires a self-directed, entrepreneurial, analytical, and creative designer who is able to effectively elicit business needs, create elegant UX solutions that meet user needs and solve problems.

The designer will provide information architecture direction, design approaches, and technological recommendations that support the development and implementation of our solution. The candidate will need to gain insight into user roles and activities and translate this knowledge into a cohesive and usable product. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Driving the full lifecycle of responsive design: content-first design, logic flows, storyboards, personas, wireframes, low fidelity mock-ups, sitemaps, information architecture and UI specifications, to provide end-to-end dynamic design flows
• Consult with clients to understand their goals and explain research results
• Advocate for and apply UX/UI practices such as LeanUX, and user-centered design (UCD)
• Create wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps, and screen flows (e.g., using tools such as UXPin, Balsamiq)
• Conduct user research to understand workflows, construct personas and assess usability
• Analyze usage metrics and feedback for trends, patterns, issues, and opportunities for UX enhancement
• Assist with content development
• Assist with web application requirements, development, and testing (esp. HTML and JavaScript)

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in User Experience Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Communication Design, Interaction Design, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of development experience
• 2+ years of User Experience (UX) Design

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

• Full-flex work week
• 401K with company match
• Customizable health benefits packages
• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Rewards program for high-performing employees

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