Job Description
Summary: Contribute to the design and development of Charles River Development’s Web Framework components and build Web First UIs as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Responsibilities: Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to define elegant UX solutions to complex customer workflows. Work with Product Managers to maintain the design language used to ensure visual and interactive consistency across Charles River’s Web UI. Build wireframes using HTML, CSS and Photoshop and collaborate with Front End engineers to transform them into fully functioning web components and UI. Experience in building React UI Components. Provide thought leadership in the design of UI/UX within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility. Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed UI changes during demos and design reviews. Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product. Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives. Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments. Provide mentoring to junior staff. Qualifications: Education: BS/BA/BFA (or foreign education equivalent) in Design, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction or other applicable degrees required. MS/MA/MFA strongly preferred. Experience: Several years of progressively responsible professional UI/UX experience. Some years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired. Authoritative experience with UI/UX design, HTML, CSS and Photoshop (or equivalent). Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving complex, highly interactive Web first user interfaces. Able to design UI/UX solutions to business and technical problems of moderate complexity. Experience maintaining and enforcing an organization’s Design Language across its web UIs. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment. A minimum of 7 years working with an Agile development methodology. #J-18808-Ljbffr