Solutions Architect - User Experience (Experienced)

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Salary Range

$99,700 - $196,100
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking a User Experience Architect to focus on furthering the organization's efforts in developing user experience solutions and providing user experience design and development across Sandia! In this role, you will provide leadership and strategic direction for the design of Sandia's digital products. The selected candidate will architect modern, effective design solutions within the Information Technology Services organization and across Sandia.
On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Research, architect, and develop innovative web and mobile solutions to improve user experiences across the enterprise
• Intake and understand complex business requirements and translate them into effective digital experiences that help customers
• Create UX documentation (transaction flows, scenarios, wireframes, navigation models, prototypes, user interaction specifications) to communicate concepts
• Provide front-end development support for various software solutions across Sandia
• Develop architectures and design of solutions that are in alignment with overall enterprise architecture requirements.
• Lead cross-functional team and manage projects, ensuring projects are delivered on-time and within budget
• Provide a design strategy that allows Sandia to be up to date with current and emerging trends of the web platform

The selected applicant can be a virtual worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

Qualifications We Require

• Bachelor's degree Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Interaction Design, User Experience Design or a related field, plus five (5) years' experience; or a Master's degree in a related field plus one (1) year of experience
• Experience with REST-based application architecture
• Experience with Bootstrap and Angular 2.0+
• Experience translating customer requirements, UX research recommendations, and user needs to working solutions
• Experience leading projects and teams
• Active DOE Q clearance is required to start

Qualifications We Desire

• Experience with User Experience methodologies
• Experience with Micro Services Architecture
• Experience in React
• Experience with the ITIL framework
• Familiarity with agile methodologies in software development processes

About Our Team

The User Experience (UX) Solutions department helps teams develop well-designed solutions by placing the end user at the center of the design process. We provide user experience research, design, and development to ensure the best experience for the user when interacting with a product. The services we provide are: User research - understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations using methods such as contextual interviews and observations to gather requirements. User interface design and development - designing user interfaces and how the user will interact with the system. Usability testing and evaluation - testing and evaluating product concepts (i.e. wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes) to evaluate ease of use and user satisfaction. User interface web services - development developing common user interface components. Software development - utilizing our team of project managers, requirements engineers, user researchers, user interface designers, and software developers to build a custom software application. We strive for intuitive, useful, valuable, and delightful solutions that meet users' needs.

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.