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UX Engineer I (UI/UX Designer Specialist I) PRD145

Duties and Responsibilities to be performed by the consultant

Job description:

• Consulting with stakeholders to understand business goals
• Helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution, as part of a team of problem solvers
• Designing, developing and implementing both client and internal facing applications and providing technology tools that help drive NYS strategic initiatives
• Using enterprise architecture across application areas to build delivery models that map capabilities to business needs outlined by NYS
• Using multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations
• Addressing defects and enhancements as part of the application support lifecycle
• Participating in incident resolution post implementation as required
• Creating and carrying out user research plans (i.e., surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.), as well as explaining user research results to internal and external stakeholders
• Planning and facilitating design thinking workshops (i.e., journey mapping, user needs modeling, etc.)
• Creating UX deliverables (i.e., user models and scenarios, sketches, user stories, user flows, wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps)
• Creating and iterating on interactive user experience prototypes that require coding
• Planning and conducting usability testing, analyzing user feedback and activity, and iterating to improve the user experience
• Working closely with developers to bring designs to life and iteratively improve solutions
• Collecting quantitative and qualitative UX metrics that support usability validation
• Assisting with content development
• Designing for multi-device web, iOS, and Android contexts
• Other duties as assigned

Consultants may be eligible to telecommute for more than 50% of their work hours, up to and including 100% remote work. Telecommuting arrangements require direct manager approval and are subject to change based on program needs. Consultants approved for 100% remote work must attend monthly in-person meetings at the Albany office and be available for major milestone meetings as needed.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Level I- Between three (3) and seven (7) years of experience as a UX Engineer
• Five to seven years of experience in UI/UX engineering on full life cycle of design deliverables including wireframes, mockups, journey maps, prototypes, story boards and user surveys.
• One to two years working in an Integrated Eligibility System Program in various workstreams in a Health and Human Service setting.

Desirable Qualifications

• One to two years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite or Figma.
• One to two years of experience with user research, user modeling and usability testing.
• One to two years of experience with CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript.