Beacon Technologies is seeking a UI/UX Designer II for our client partner. This is a critical design position needed to drive the development and support of the IRIS 2.0 modernization project, a full replacement of the case management system. Candidates will play an integral role on self-directed project teams working on this high priority development project. Project work will include: reviewing the legacy IRIS system, working with users and business analysts to understand business requirements, design new workflows for the modern system, redesign existing workflows, wireframe and prototype ideas, conduct usability research, champion modern design principles in our development, conduct usability, accessibility, workflow, and integration testing, provide guidance on issues pertaining to user experience, design beautiful and usable UI components, including leveraging our material design library, to provide a modern, easy-to-use system for users. Successful candidates will have demonstrated success in designing beautiful, accessible, and intuitive web applications.

Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:

• Experience as a lead designer in a development project, preferably involving modernization of technology, as well as working with a cross-functional team to redesign and simplify UX and workflows to meet modern application design standards, using a material design library and component framework, such as MudBlazor - 2 years' experience
• Experience creating wireframes/prototypes and iterating over them with cross-functional stakeholders - 4 years experience
• Experience creating personas and testing designs against the personas - 4 years experience
• Knowledgable of modern code implementations, US web design standards, and product strategy - 4 years experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working within Agile principles and processes - 2 years
• Experience using MudBlazor material design library - 1 year
• Experience training software developers and business analysts on UX principles and best practices - 2 years
• Previous experience providing this service for government a plus, and experience with environments will be especially valuable

Hardware/Software Environment:

• Azure SQL
• .NET Framework 6
• .NET Framework 8
• Blazor Framework
• MudBlazor Material Design Library
• Visual Studio .NET
• Azure Cloud Computing Platform
• GitHub
• Jira
• Swagger
• Microservices Architecture

Qualifications & Years of Experience:

• Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation 2
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Analytical/problem solving skills
• Application Development and Support of CICS/DB2/COBOL/JCL Mainframe Systems: Using Changeman, CNTL-M or the like
  Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support 1
• Mainframe Application Experience (SQL/COBOL/CICS/JCL/DB2) including ability to identify and create Test Data, creating and modifying files and JCL in order to test the accuracy of System Modifications
• Knowledge of Electronic Document Management, BPM, Workflow, and Scan/Capture software using products such as eDocs and Kofax Total Agility
• Analysis and Design of Mainframe Applications
• Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools and applications 1
• Scripting – Winbatch, VBScript, AutoIT, PowerShell, DOS Batch, etc.
• MS Office Products 1
• Active Directory Tools
• MS Office 2010/O365 1
• Software Packaging – Admin Studio, etc.
• Project (MS) 1
• Excel (MS) 1
• Word (MS) 1
• Outlook (MS) 1
• MS Windows 7/Windows 10 – System Configuration/Upgrade
• Administration - Project Management
• Change management 4
• Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile' 4
• Project Management 2
• Information Technology – Design
• Data modeling
• MVVM (Model View View Model)
• Structured Analysis and Design of Web and Client-Server applications for both transactional and batch applications
• WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
• Information Technology - Desktop Support
• 3rd Level IT Problem Resolution
• Desktop Management Systems (LANDesk/SCCM-Patching/Software Deployment, etc.)
• Information Technology - Directory Services
• Active Directory
• Information Technology – Databases
• Access
• Data flow and structure modeling
• Experience in data warehouse design and development
• Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse
• Data warehouse performance tuning
• Data warehousing
• DB2
• Stored procedures and triggers
• Experience in extract, transform, and load coding using Informatica
• Oracle
• Oracle SQL tuning
• SQL Client tools
• SQL Server
• Logical Database Design
• Information Technology - Languages/Tools
• .Net (MS) 1
• ASP.NET 1
• VB.NET 1
• CICS (Customer Information Control System)
• Business Objects
• C#.net
• Cobol
• JCL
• SAS
• SQL
• Visual Basic for Apps (VBA) in MS Access 2010
• MVC (Model View Controller)
• Team Foundation Server
• Macros in MS Access 2003
• Experience with Oracle PL/SQL
• Operating system administration (e.g., monitoring, process control, threads, upgrades and patching)
• Documenting requirements 4
• Execution and Documentation of Regression, System & User
• Acceptance Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Results for a Large
• Experience as a developer in a large, very complex organization 1
• In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each phase of development 2
• Requirements analysis 4
• Requirements gathering 1
• Advanced Structured Analysis and Design for Online and Batch DB2/CICS/MVS COBOL Mainframe using SPUFI, SQL, FILEAID, VISIO,or the like
• Knowledge of State of Wisconsin Employment & Training Systems
• Knowledge of State of Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Systems
• RACF
• Implement and enforce security requirements
• Experience with HYENA
• Experience with RSA
• Experience with SecureDoc Encryption
• Changeman
• Control M
• Experience using SQL, SPUFI, Platinum, Fileaid, QMF Tools or Equivalent, to Identify, Create and Validate Test Data for DB2 Mainframe Systems
• User test, System test, and User Acceptance test plans 2
• Experience in Azure Cloud development 1
• Wireframing and Prototyping 4
• Experience using GitHub 1
• Web design principles 4
• Accessible and responsive design 4
• Personas 4
• Empathy mapping or equivalent

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.