Senior UX/UI Design Engineer

Overview:Job Title: Senior UX/UI Design Engineer Job Location: Remote but accessible to Scott AFB, IL or Ft. Meade, MD Security Clearance: An active, in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance Due to the nature of the work and US Government required, US Citizenship is required. Job Responsibilities:Trace Systems is recruiting for a Senior UX/UI Design Engineerto support the Innovations Team on our GSM-O II Program. As a key team member, you will work as part of a fast paced, Agile development and implementation team to architect, design and develop a unified User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) that provides a holistic single-pane-of-glass interface for an integrated solution. You will also work with operational end users and support teams to perform requirements analysis, as well as design, develop and demonstrate UI mockups and wireframes. Responsibilities Include: Researching, designing and user-testing experiences and making strategic user-experience decisions while working closely with product owners, engineers and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. Conducting usability studies and proactively identifying and devising solutions for issues with the existing experience. Tracking success of experience focused changes and iterating as necessary to improve performance. Independently conducting UX research interviews, prototype reviews, surveys, and usability sessions. Mentoring teammates on UX concepts. Working with teammates and other disciplines to encourage teams to adopt UX design solutions. Developing personas, user flows, scenarios, user stories, goal/task analysis, system workflows and other key tools of user-centered design that simplify and enhance the insights acquired from complex data analytics platforms. Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, and work collaboratively to create mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experience. Applying the basics of visual design (i.e UI) principles in their design work such as visual hierarchy, proximity, similarity, font selection and color theory and demonstrate an understanding of visual, layout, content organization, and accessibility guidelines. Designing, supporting development, documenting, testing and deploying applications and UI prototypes to be written by software team in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Creating Kibana visualizations and dashboards using React, JavaScript and HTML. Minimum Qualifications:Position requires a minimum of five (5) years of UX/UI architecture, design, development and delivery experience. Strong documentation skills with a proven ability to develop architecture diagrams and wireframes. 3+ years of demonstrable experience designing, developing and deploying dashboards and reports. Strong communication skills that enable proactive and effective collaboration with a virtual team, including the ability to clearly articulate status and present to both customers and program leadership. Experience using project management tools such as Jira and Confluence to document requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases. Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with and convey focused messages to stakeholders, customers, domain experts, program managers and teammates. An active, in-scope US Government issued Secret clearance Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification. Desired Qualifications:Experience with data Visualization and dashboards Elastic/Kibana Certified Engineer. Experience designing, developing and deploying dashboards and reports using the Elastic stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats. Experience with Elastic stack security features, such as client authentication, SSL/TLS configuration, and role-based document filtering.Software design and development experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSON/REST APIs in a cloud environment (AWS is a plus). Experience developing, building and deploying software using Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, Artifactory and Ansible (or equivalent tools). Experience with containers orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes. Domain experience with network data. Experience with big data applications. Experience with cloud-based AWS services. Experience designing, developing and deploying solutions using DevOps/DevSecOps concepts. Experience developing and deploying software in a DoD environment (DISA experience is a plus), including experience building and deploying software applications that meet DoD security standards. Experience working remotely with a geographically dispersed team. Education:Bachelors degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 12+ years of professional experience; or 10 years of professional experience with a related Masters degree. Trace SystemsTrace Systems Inc. was founded to support and defend our nation''s security interests at home and abroad whenever and wherever. We provide enterprise IT, engineering, full life-cycle communications, cybersecurity, cloud and virtualization services and solutions to the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies. To Apply: We invite you to put your talents to work by joining a growing team of dynamic professionals here at Trace Systems! Be part of a culture at our leading-edge company where you can achieve great things while fostering a satisfying and rewarding career progression. To learn more about our current openings, text tracejobs to 97211 or apply directly through our website at: jointracesystems COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, Trace Systems may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Trace Systems is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, disability, veteran status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Job ID 2022-4954 of Openings 1

Created: 2025-10-04