Senior UI/UX Front-End Design Lead
Dev TechnologyReston, Virginia, United States · Posted 24 days agoDescription
Senior UI/UX Front-End Design Lead #1086
Clearance
**US Citizenship required, Must be able to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust.
Senior UI/UX Front-End Design Lead
Clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust.
Overview
Dev Technology Group is seeking a Senior UI/UX Front-End Design Lead to drive strategy and design execution across a large federal agency. This role will serve as the central design authority supporting multiple delivery teams and applications, ensuring consistent, intuitive, and mission-aligned user experiences across diverse technology stacks. This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who enjoys working alongside our technical project teams and our federal customers to recommend and deliver UI/UX assets and design constructs that our teams can use quickly and efficiently utilize across a variety of technical environments (e.g. React-based custom applications, Microsoft Power App solutions, etc.). The ideal candidate is well versed in user experience strategy and accessibility standards, and thrives in complex, mission-driven environments.
The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of 8 or more years of experience in UI/UX design and implementation, including working alongside or embedded within development teams to help them deliver faster while ensuring a professional, modern, intuitive user experience that is compliant with federal design standards.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Serve as the UI/UX SME and translate business requirements and UX strategy into elegant, intuitive, and high-performing user interfaces for development teams to implement
- Drive UI/UX best practices across programs, ensuring consistency, usability, and accessibility
- Establish and maintain reusable component libraries and design systems leveraging frameworks such as Bootstrap, Material UI, and Trussworks
- Ensure Section 508 compliance and adherence to WCAG 2.x standards across applications
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, designers, backend engineers, and stakeholders to deliver user-centered solutions
- Partner with project and client leadership to shape a modernization roadmap and implement modernization initiatives and continuous proactive improvement of the development processes while staying current with emerging frontend technologies
- Lead troubleshooting efforts to identify and resolve complex UI/UX and performance issues
- Provide final UI/UX review and sign-off of developed apps across multiple tech platforms (e.g. M365 / Power Platform, ServiceNow, etc.) and front-end development teams (e.g. React based apps) prior to customer User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and rollout
- Lead creation of high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes for multiple teams supporting disparate tech stacks
- Develop repeatable design-to-development workflows to accelerate delivery across teams
- Conduct usability testing and design validation sessions with development teams
- Proactively coach and mentor development teams on UI/UX best practices and modern design approaches
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human–Computer Interaction & Design, or a related technical discipline strongly preferred OR related professional experience in lieu of a degree acceptable.
- Over 8 years of hands-on experience in UI/UX design and implementation, applying design standards and collaborating closely with development teams to deliver consistent, intuitive user experiences.
- 3–5 years of experience leading design initiatives across multiple applications or cross‑functional teams.
- Advanced proficiency in HTML5 and CSS3, and in design tools such as Figma or Adobe suite
- Experience designing scalable component-based design systems
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards, including Section 508 and WCAG
- Proven experience optimizing frontend performance and application scalability
- Experience working in Agile / DevSecOps development environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead discussions regarding UI/UX planning and influence frontend strategy
- Experience with React and Power Platforms
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Portfolio showcasing enterprise-level UI/UX work
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Design or similar area of study
- Experience leading frontend modernization or transformation initiatives
- Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, or other UX prototyping tools
- Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD integration for frontend deployments
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