Lead UX Engineer (Onsite)

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead UX Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

* Guide the user experience process to ensure a cohesive and unified experience across various operational and financial IT products.

* Serve as a center of excellence for UX in each project.

* Facilitate user engagement sessions and oversee the deliverables from UX vendor teams to ensure consistent visual and interaction patterns across projects.

* Provide UX guidance for enterprise initiatives and enhancements.

* Collaborate directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business requirements and constraints.

* Actively conduct user modeling and task analysis and develop personas and scenarios.

* Facilitate user research sessions and communicate the findings.

* Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design.

* Translate complex user requirements and technical constraints into simple user interfaces.

* Recommend solutions for complex interaction problems and enhance the overall user experience within and across applications.

* Experience in user experience design for platforms or during platform implementation is an advantage.

* Envisioning the user experience for multiple enterprise applications with complex business needs

* Experience with Figma is important

* Connecting dots and bringing a cohesive experience across deliverables produced in different project tracks

* Managing multiple projects from a UX perspective being responsible for adherence to standards for the timely and quality delivery of artifacts

Qualifications

* At least 10 years of relevant work experience in UX design

* Usability Analyst certification desirable

* Basic experience with other Prototyping tools HTML/CSS & Photoshop is a plus

* In depth knowledge of usability engineering and information architecture

* In depth knowledge of interaction design

* High level of visual design expertise

* Broad level of understanding of information systems and application development methodologies

* Systems application development methodologies emerging tech

* Strong interpersonal skills and a team player

* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

* Understanding of the trade offs between optimum user experience and technical information security and business constraints and ability to propose appropriate compromises.

Applications will be accepted until 03/31/2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $80,100 - $127,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.