External Job Posting Title Senior User Experience (UX) Software Engineer

Responsibilities

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.

The selected candidate will join an experienced team working on efforts to modernize an existing data tracking and metrics system. The User Experience (UX) developer should be able to focus on developing highly usable end user interfaces, applying UI best practices and UX principles.

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Qualifications

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 be able to develop, debug maintain, and deploy the UI application. The candidate needs to know how to work independently within small team and able to engage with a larger team.
• (5) years of experience and have 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.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

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

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