Senior User Experience (UX) Software Engineer - TS/SCI w/Poly

Peraton; Maryland; On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage

Eligibility for attractive bonus plan

Paid time off (PTO) for vacation

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a highly motivated User Experience software engineer in Maryland to support development and software solutions for data tracking and metrics. Responsibilities include collaborating on user research, evolving requirements, and participating in Agile activities.

Qualified candidates will have a BA/BS with 20 years of experience, strong background in UI/UX, and relevant technical skills. The position offers a salary range of $146,000 - $234,000 and comprehensive benefits including medical coverage and a bonus plan.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in usability and software engineering cycle phases.
• Background in Linux, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML.
• Experience with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate across projects.
• Work directly with the customer to evolve requirements.
• Participate in Agile development activities.

Skills

UI/UX experience

508 Compliance

Experience with React

CSS

JavaScript

MVC Full Stack experience

Education

BA/BS and 20 years of experience

Tools

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Program Overview

Provides IC data management support to modernize mega data repositories, dataflow management, data provenance and compliance validation, and streaming solutions.

About the Role

The team is seeking a highly motivated User Experience software engineer to support development and software solutions to support data tracking and metrics solutions. The ideal candidate will:

• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with systems engineers and developers across projects to support the planning, design, development, and utilization of a final product recommendation.
• Work directly with the customer and team to evolve requirements and support the creation and presentation of design documents and product demonstrations.
• Product evaluation, integration, testing and design process for data tracking and metrics solutions.
• Participate in Agile development activities, to include Sprint planning, scheduling, and Jira ticket management.
• Ensure software standards and best practices are utilized.

Basic Qualifications

• TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance is required
• BA/BS and 20 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• The candidate will need a strong background in Linux, CSS, JavaScript and HTML to develop, debug, maintain, and deploy the UI application, and must work independently within a small team and engage with a larger team.
• 5 years of experience and familiarity with task analysis, user interface design, and usability testing.
• Experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment).
• Work closely with users (analysts) to research for and document user profiles, analysis tasks, workflows, and user scenarios.
• Work with users to collect and document user performance requirements.
• Create user interface design specifications, as required.
• Work closely with product designers and process engineers to develop applications.
• Conduct usability testing.
• Design and develop user surveys to obtain user feedback.

Required Skills

• UI/UX experience
• 508 Compliance
• Experience with React
• CSS, Javascript, HTML
• MVC Full Stack experience

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Experience with the following:
  • GoLang, Python, Java, Hadoop, Accumulo
  • core AWS services
  • Good background in Linux/Unix administration
  • Apache NiFi
  • REST
  • JMS
  • Building or maintaining cloud‑native applications
  • Docker and Kubernetes. Having used EMR, EC2 and various databases is a plus

Benefits

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Details

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO Statement

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.