Principal Software Engineer UI, Charles River Development, Vice President

at  State Street Corporation

SUMMARY:

Contribute to the design and development of Charles River Development’s Web Framework components and build Web First UIs as a senior member of an agile scrum team.

EDUCATION:

• BS/BA/BFA (or foreign education equivalent) in Design, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction or other applicable degrees required. MS/MA/MFA strongly preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of progressively responsible professional UI/UX experience
• 4 to 7 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
• Authoritative experience with UI/UX design, HTML, CSS and Photoshop (or equivalent)
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving complex, highly interactive Web first user interfaces
• Able to design UI/UX solutions to business and technical problems of moderate complexity
• Experience maintaining and enforcing an organization’s Design Language across its web UIs.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
• A minimum of 7 years working with an Agile development methodology

• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to define elegant UX solutions to complex customer workflows
• Work with Product Managers to maintain the design language used to ensure visual and interactive consistency across Charles River’s Web UI.
• Build wireframes using HTML, CSS and Photoshop and collaborate with Front End engineers to transform them into fully functioning web components and UI.
• Experience in building React UI Components
• Provide thought leadership in the design of UI/UX within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed UI changes during demos and design reviews
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments
• Provide mentoring to junior staff