Senior UX Architect

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Senior Architect in Montreal, QC. The role focuses on creating UX roadmaps, translating requirements into wireframes, and guiding multiple teams in implementing UX frameworks and components.

You will ensure consistent customer experience across channels and collaborate with engineers, designers, and management to drive UI/UX excellence.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• Minimum 5 years designing and building React-based SPAs and reusable UX components.
• Experience with UX frameworks, taxonomies, and information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Create roadmaps for UX designs, frameworks and components across multiple teams.
• Translate business requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and technical requirements.
• Lead software engineers in adopting UX patterns and best practices.
• Provide domain knowledge leadership across development teams.
• Ensure consistent customer experience and information architecture across channels.
• Respond to technical issues promptly.
• Communicate strategies to developers, designers, and management.

Skills

UX design UX SPA

React-based SPAs

Leadership for engineers

Self-motivation and teamwork

Findability & usability concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/related field

Tools

Jira/Confluence

GHE/Github

AWS Cloudfront

Jenkins/Concourse

Job description

Additional Locations

Hybrid position - expected to work in the office 1-2 days per week on average

Senior Architect

Montreal, QC

Responsibilities

• Create roadmaps for UX designs, UX Frameworks and Components as well as UX development processes across multiple teams.
• Translate business requirements into wireframes, mock‑ups, Prototypes, and well‑formed technical requirements.
• Collaborate with and provide leadership to software engineers in terms of designing applications to use UX frameworks and components and ensuring that teams are adopting best practices and patterns.
• Provide domain knowledge leadership across multiple development teams.
• Ensure teams are converging towards a common customer experience and information architecture across all channels.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Communicate strategies and designs to all audiences: Development teams, Design Teams, and management.

Requirements

• Awareness of current computing trends and technologies
• Ability to design and implement UX SPA’s using modern UX frameworks.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence, GHE/Github
• Experience with AWS Cloudfront or similar CDN’s, Jenkins, Concourse
• Demonstrated abilities: self‑motivation, creativity, a willingness, and ability to learn, resourcefulness, intuition, thoroughness, and the ability to work with others
• Minimum of 5 years designing and building React based SPA’s, reusable UX components, and UX frameworks.
• 5 or more years’ experience developing methods and tools for creating taxonomies, user flow diagrams and screen layouts, as well as demonstrate a fundamentally understanding of the methods and concepts related to findability and usability.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, applied mathematics, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Experience with user acceptance processes and methods.
• Experience with low code UX development methods and technologies.

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ABOUT US

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre‑K–12 education content, services, and cutting‑edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award‑winning children's books, novels, non‑fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world. Follow HMH on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com

PLEASE NOTE

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E‑Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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