by Ronald Barron | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: UnitedHealth Group
Job description:
Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There is no room for error. If you are looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It’s an opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)
As a User Experience (UX) Design Manager for the growing Optum User Experience Design Studio (UXDS) team, you will report to the Design Director and supervise a team of designers. The UX Manager will work with project teams to design portals, applications and web properties. The UX Manager will partner with designers, developers and UX directors to translate information architecture, navigation and process flows into easy-to-use and aesthetically beautiful solutions.
The positions in the user experience job function are all related to user-centered design – a process to help ensure products and services meet the needs of customers, employees and other users. This job function is a collection of specialties each with a unique skill set. These roles may involve UX design, visual design, user research, accessibility, front-end development, or data visualization. Colleagues in these roles use their knowledge of interface design, research methods, accessibility guidelines, and current programming techniques to design, research, develop and assess products and services to enhance the overall user experience and create usable and accessible digital experiences.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage small team of user experience designers and researchers to design compelling and useful products
- Partner with a creative team and developers to maintain a cohesive design and experience throughout our product, providing expertise and mentorship
- Collaborate with stakeholders including UX Leads, Product Managers and Development Managers to identify, prioritize and implement design solutions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
- Communicating the user experience at various stages of the design process by using wireframes, flow diagrams, sketches, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes
- Leveraging and contributing to existing design pattern libraries and interface guidelines
- Work on one or more design projects from start to finish while meeting creative, technical and business requirements
- Gather insights, prototyping concepts and validating solutions with users in order to inform design decisions
- Critique in-progress design work, evaluating the priority and effectivity of solutions
- Work with design team to create prototypes to show and demonstrate interactions
- Participate when and where necessary in the research process
- Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
- Impact of work is most often at the operational or local business unit or market level
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of UX design experience
- Experience creating wireframes and prototypes to communicate design concepts
- Experience with providing critical analysis of user experience designs based on heuristics and other accepted design principles.
- Experience with various UX design and collaboration tools (e.g., Sketch, Axure, Figma, InVision, Miro, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Experience participating in user research and concept testing with users
- Demonstrated understanding of mature user-centered design and research practices
- Portfolio of relevant user experience project deliverables
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Information Architecture, Communications, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- Experience with enterprise software, B2B applications or large employee-facing systems and the medical or healthcare domain
- Involvement in the UX community (e.g. meet-ups, clubs, conferences)
- Proven ability managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of user interaction analytics and measurements
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex concepts clearly and persuasively across diverse audiences at various levels of our organization
- Ability to present and communicate to executive leadership
- Proven ability to manage multiple user experience professionals towards a cohesive vision
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: CarMax
About this job
The Sr. Manager of Technology for Data Science and Machine Learning is a key leader in providing reliable and scalable machine-learning capabilities across the organization. The Technology Manager will be responsible for the talent selection and career development of a team of very talented and passionate software/ML engineers, who closely partner with Data Scientists in productionalizing models. The ideal candidate will have a passion and understanding of Data Science and Machine Learning and will have the substantial experience in software engineering and cloud engineering that is necessary to turn those models into highly visible, mission-critical capabilities that drive CarMax’s iconic customer experience.
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Technical Qualifications:
- 7+ years’ experience in Software Engineering of highly scalable services platforms/ecosystems,
- 3+ years’ experience in building and managing Machine-Learning
- 3+ years’ experience in Cloud Engineering, with knowledge in distributed computing preferred
- Demonstrated innate passion for the Data Science and Machine-Learning, building scalable ML platforms/ecosystems
Management Qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience managing direct reports, required
- 3+ years of experience required leading software projects leveraging Agile practices, required
- Demonstrated leadership skills – can apply clear direction and priorities to teams
- Serves as an empowering coach to the team by providing them with the resources, training, feedback, and a sounding-board to be successful in their roles balancing technical debt with speed-to-delivery customer focused team,
- Promotes a customer-focused team, balancing technical debt with speed-to-delivery
- Demonstrated ability to provide vision for the Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, and Machine-Learning spaces and inspire teams towards the future
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science; Master’s preferred
- Candidate must be legally authorized to work for any U.S. employer on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will be considered for this specific role.
- Posting: Role (Remote)
- “Work location is flexible if approved by the Company except that position may not be performed remotely from Hawaii or Colorado”
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Colgate-Palmolive
The Full-Stack Developer is responsible for crafting, planning, and developing different functionalities and processes within the Atlas software landscape. This person works in an Agile Scrum Team with developers globally to deliver improvements that support and drive the business
This position should be able to learn new technologies and tie business processes and requirements to full end-to-end designs. And develop with a test-driven methodology. The role will involve planning, design, development, and maintenance of our frontend and backend. The ideal candidate is very self-motivated and can work well both independently and within a team. They are a self-starter – eager to learn new technologies and consider security, performance, and user interface implications in their designs.
Preferred ability to work in a hybrid workplace in Piscataway, NJ., but we will consider fully virtual candidates as well.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop web services to support our Customer Development Teams
- Develop consumer-grade web-based applications
- Manage and maintain the data model
- Improve test coverage of existing codebases
- Work closely with internal team and external partners to ensure new developments align with a roadmap and integrate seamlessly with other platform components
- Collaborate with project partners and the agile team to ensure all requirements are met
- Support ongoing development for existing projects/applications
- Find opportunities to use new technologies to improve applications.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering or similar degree
- At least 2+ years of experience designing and deploying end-to-end web applications.
- Experience with web technologies, networking, debugging
- Experience with test-driven development methodologies
- Experience with Model View Controller development
- Experience with Python programming (Django experience is a plus)
- Experience with relational database technologies and data modeling
- Experience developing frontend web applications in a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular, React, or Vue
- Experience optimizing and scaling code in a production environment
- Experience managing source code with git
- Knowledge of and experience applying security best practices and patterns
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with containerization, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Experience developing applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines and automations
- Experience with event-driven systems, streaming analytics, and distributed systems
- Experience working on Agile/SCRUM development teams
- Previous experience in a CPG company commercial experience or
- Experience in using user-centric design and applying User Experience concepts
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Moody’s
Job Description
- The Senior User Experience Designer is a talented practitioner that contributes to the design and delivery of exceptional interaction and visual designs.
- This individual employs a user-centered design methodology to create compelling, intuitive interfaces.
- The User Experience Designer works closely with user experience team members, product strategists and stakeholders to understand business goals and translate those goals into designs that enhance the overall end-user experience.
The Senior User Experience Designer works in a multidisciplinary environment, and in a collaborative fashion, on user experience design activities throughout the software development lifecycle, often with numerous design initiatives occurring concurrently:
- Contributes to the design of the overall look and feel of visual and interactive user interface across multiple products and platforms
- Simplifies and unifies complex information into intuitive interactions, flows, charts, graphs, and other forms of visual representation
- Creates detailed specifications of visual designs to communicate with developers
- Performs quality assurance reviews of developed pages to ensure adherence to specifications
- Contributes to the creation of prototypes to validate design concepts with stakeholders and customers
- Contributes to the creation of a pattern library, to maintain consistency in behaviours across multiple products
- Leads and participates in user research and testing to apply insights to inform design strategy
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Design, Architecture, HCI, or other design research field preferred
- 4+ years of experience as a User Experience Designer of web and mobile user interfaces
- Have a portfolio of work samples that demonstrate graphic skill, knowledge of design principles, and thorough, thoughtful design and user- or human-centered design process
- Be able to work independently, but with a strong preference for collaboration and being part of a highly collegial team
- System level thinking regarding UI & UX decisions
- Experience working on rapid release cycle environment and partnered with product managers and engineering teams to define and ship features quickly
- Strategic thinking that looks for design efficiencies that balance engineering and product needs without sacrificing the integrity of design
- Strong attention to detail with ability to successfully execute on multiple, simultaneous projects
- Detailed knowledge of design tools such as Adobe CS, Figma, HTML, CSS
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by Ronald Barron | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Achieve Test Prep
Do you enjoy flexibility and the ability to work from home? Achieve Test Prep provides virtual prep courses to increase students’ likelihood of earning college credits via credit-by-exam. We are a fully virtual organization with all team members working 100% remotely.
We are seeking a Web Programmer responsible for maintaining and developing code across a broad range of ATP’s internal systems. Candidates should be open to learning new technologies and techniques and applying them to various existing and new projects.
Our Technology Stack: You will be working with the following technologies: Javascript, JQuery, PHP, Django, WordPress, Bootstrap, Salesforce
Responsibilities:
- Designs and writes code that solves programming issues with little or no help; unit tests, debugs, documents, and implements computer programs.
- Interprets business and system use cases and requirements documentation to understand functionality to be developed, translates these requirements into a software coding solution and may provide input for functional requirements specifications. Prepares detailed analysis, plans, diagrams, and verification procedures for existing and proposed applications.
- Develops new code or modifies existing application program code; maintains, supports, and monitors program code ensuring ongoing operations and execution of this software.
- Facilitates root cause analysis of system issues to minimize impact and future occurrences.
- Provides support for application software programs, including problem resolution from software failures or other problems, answering questions, etc.
- Installs, tests, and upgrades proprietary application software.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in a Technology related field or a combination of education / certification and experience preferred
- 3+ years experience in programming
- Experience in HTML/CSS
- Practical knowledge in Server-side programming using PHP.
- Experience using Javascript and jQuery to support interactivity and API consumption
- Understanding of responsive web design techniques
- Experience resolving differences between internet browser versions and devices
- Organized, detail oriented and willing to learn and apply new skills.
Nice to have: What would make you stand out, so let us know if you have any of these
- Experience with Moodle (or similar LMS system).
- Salesforce development experience.
- Experience using Bootstrap.
- Knowledge of the React framework.
- WordPress application experience.
- Django application knowledge.
- CD/CI knowledge.
- Experience using version control tools, such as Github, Bitbucket, etc.
- Experience developing for a cloud hosted environment, such as AW.
- Experience using a task planning solution, i.e. Asana, Jira, Basecamp, etc
- Knowledge/Experience using an agile-based development methodology (Scrum).
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