User Experience (UX) Front-End Developer

Summary

User Experience (UX) Front-End Developer, Level III

Springfield, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

As one of the newest Chenega companies, Chenega Defense & Aerospace Solutions (CDAS) was developed with the purpose of providing expert Engineering and Technical Support Services to federal customers.

CDAS requires the User Experience (UX) Front-End Developer, Level III to support the customer by applying extensive knowledge of various sciences (e.g., Computer Science, Programming), APIs or web service technologies (e.g., REST APIs, SOAP, and XML), and browser-based technologies and libraries (e.g., AJAX, jQuery, Angular, Handlebars, Bootstrap or similar design, and HTML templating frameworks).

Responsibilities

Work you’ll do

As a User Experience (UX) Front-End Developer, Level III within our E UX team, you will:

• Create designs for complex client web and mobile applications utilizing current industry programming techniques.
• Partner with internal and external teams and application users to conceptualize, design, and prototype excellent user experiences while maintaining functionality and simple workflows.
• Participate in design activities to identify new product ideas and to optimize existing products.
• Research and implement modern web design technologies to create innovative user interfaces and improve workflow efficiency.
• Develop and share recommendations on industry best practices on information architecture, user experience, accessibility compliance, and use of graphics, mobile optimization, responsiveness, and other web best practices.
• Develop estimates on scope and duration of work required for individuals or team(s) to deliver client requirements.
• Design new user-facing products by transforming an idea from scientific presentations to websites or online productivity tools.
• Create visual concepts by using JavaScript and other browser-based technologies, like Asynchronous JavaScript and Extensible Markup (AJAX), jQuery, and Bootstrap.
• Utilize the customer DevOps systems and tools (Git, Jenkins, etc.) to ensure compliant code and ensure best practices.
• Build efficient and reusable resource and guidance libraries for future design use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Identify and troubleshoot customer issues on the customer’s content management system (permissions, api, web parts).
• Collaborate with UI/UX team members during design and content reviews to refine user experiences.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Utilize XML-parsing, XSLT, CSS, Web Services, and REST of multiple systems, including Microsoft SharePoint.
• Possess associated technical knowledge of admin and servers associated with SharePoint, like SQL Server administration, Windows Server Administration, and active directory control, etc.
• Apply results of web usability testing (e.g., usability studies, creation of user profiles or personas, participatory design, surveys, heuristic evaluations, and cognitive walkthroughs) to the design of applications and web sites.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required

• Certificate and/or bachelor’s degree and/or high school diploma or GED and an additional 4 years of equivalent experience within the field
• 7 years of experience providing Front End Development support
• US citizen
• TS/SCI clearance required
• The position requires a COVID vaccination or an approved accommodation/exemption for a disability/medical condition or religious belief
• Experience programing with front-end development (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Responsive Design, and Bootstrap).
• Intermediate experience with JavaScript development using modern standards consuming RESTful APIs.
• Intermediate experience working in team environments that use Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean) along with version control systems, specifically Git.
• Demonstrated experience developing with Angular, React, Node JS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JS/Ajax REST, and Bootstrap.
• Demonstrated experience implementing front-end, user experience design and development.
• Demonstrated experience applying best practices for web accessibility, usability, and technical implementation.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a web and/or CMS applications.

Desired

• 5 years of experience implementing industry standards for user experience methodologies, design technical resources, and web best practices.
• 2 years of experience developing in cloud-based DevOps environment.
• 1 year of experience with business workflow and appropriate capabilities/tools (e.g., JIRA, etc.).

How you’ll grow

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

Benefits

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

Chenega MIOS’s culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

Corporate citizenship

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/

Tips from your Talent Acquisition team

We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:

Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI\_IE369514.11,23.htm

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/

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