Candidate must be a Ohio resident.

Interviews will be required to be in-person at the Shipley building at 1970 West Broad Street.

Hybrid position: Mostly work from home, but has to be able to report onsite as requested.

Senior User Experience UI/UX Designer with expertise in designing and prototyping Cloud based, mobile and desktop applications.

DPS is looking for a Senior User Experience UI/UX Designer with expertise in designing and prototyping Cloud based, mobile and desktop applications.

The selected Consultant will be directly responsible for designing a modern intuitive UI/UX, and will have direct experience interacting with business users to create the UI/UX.

They will work closely with the designated Business Users, I.T. supervisor, project managers, and development staff within an agile development environment maintaining a user-centered design approach as you tackle complex design problems and influence product strategy.

Proactively identifying areas of the product that need improvement and driving those improvements into a product roadmap.

The Consultant, inworking with ODPS staff, will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing user interface using Prototyping Designer tools. The new applications will implement an N-tier architecture and comply with ODPS coding standards.

During the interview process with the ODPS staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence/experience in their specific area(s) of project assignment. The resource consultant must also present or share their portfolio with samples. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence/experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror’s proposal. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance. Resource will have a background check conducted by ODPS.

1.Participate in meetings with stakeholders, business users, and engineering teams to understand and project UI requirements.

2.Design wireframes and interactive prototypes and user-friendly designs that support complex business processes.

3.Work on various stages of the product development process from discovery to research to design user interface.

4.Test and iterate various product concepts with users; conduct user research and analysis to validate the design.

5.Work with project managers, developers, and business analysts to brainstorm ideas, approaches, and design solutions.

6.Experience in creating 'Design System’ Library for reusability.

7.Create a seamless UI handoff process to development team.

8.Ensure that user interface and experience designs follow best practices and comply with security requirements.

9.Integration with Backend: Work closely with backend developers to integrate front-end components.

10.Participate in backlog grooming sessions and other agile ceremonies to ensure Agile development teams have a good understanding of the proposed UI design to implement successfully.

11.Strong communication/ leadership skills.

12.Strong influence, collaboration, and negotiation experience.

13.Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.

14. Ability to communicate ideas to a wide variety of stakeholders, lead discussions and creative activities, and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.

15.Ability to lead and manage large design initiatives, including managing competing priorities with product and engineering peers.

16. Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.

17. Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.

18. Have strong understanding of prioritization stemming from the elicitation of system and/or user requirements.

19. Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

20. Must be knowledgeable in the English language/speak clearly and understandably use the English language.

21. Provides technical guidance and mentoring to technical staff.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS:

1. 8 Years of verifiableexperience in taking user interface requirements and using them to designgraphical interfaces in applications.

2. Advanced understanding of site architecture, and designing intuitive userinterfaces and navigations.

3. 5 years exp with Designer tools. Axure,Figma, Sketch or a similar tool. An ability to quickly learn new tools as theyemerge.

4. 5 years of experiencedesigning and delivering products from start to finish as part of across-functional team

5. Exposure to ASP.NET C–Sharp(C#) language.

6. A demonstrableunderstanding of implementing secure UI design and coding practices for an ASP.NET MVC application.

7. 8years of experience developing a project within the AGILE methodology.

DESIRED SKILLS:

1. UI/UX Certification will be highly advantageous.

2. 8 years exp with Front end UI - Html with Bootstrap framework,CSS, and JavaScript.

3. Knowledge and work experience in designing the user interfaceof native, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps.

4. Verifiable experience with applicationsdesigned and developed in ASP.NET Core MVC applications.

5. Expert level experience of building out conversational workflowdiagrams. (Similar to flow diagrams). Articulate and document detailed UserJourney maps.

6. Expert level experience of working with UI/UX tools such as Axure, Figma, Sketch or a similar tool.

7. Ability to juggle multiple projects at once.