UIUX Designer - Senior

UI/UX Designer - Senior

Huntsville AL

US Citizenship Required. Must have an Active Top Secret Clearance Required

@Orchard is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to support a major federal modernization program. This role leads userexperience design efforts across cloudbased applications data workflows dashboards and missioncritical interfaces. The Senior UI/UX Designer creates intuitive accessible and secure user experiences aligned with federal usability standards and operational mission needs. The designer partners closely with Product Engineering QA Cloud and Migration teams to translate complex workflows into clean usercentered designs.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a high-impact National Security mission while getting hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities:

User Experience (UX) Design:

• Lead user research persona development workflow analysis and UX discovery activities
• Create wireframes user flows journey maps prototypes and interaction models
• Translate mission and technical requirements into intuitive user experiences
• Ensure designs meet usability accessibility (Section 508) and security standards

User Interface (UI) Design:

• Develop modern responsive interface designs for webbased dashboards and cloud applications
• Create highfidelity mockups visual assets design systems and style guides
• Ensure UI concepts align with UX principles product requirements and modernization goals
• Collaborate with developers to support pixelperfect implementation

Collaboration & Agile Delivery:

• Participate in sprint planning backlog refinement and design reviews
• Work closely with Product Leads Full Stack Engineers QA Automation Engineers and Cloud teams
• Provide clear design requirements acceptance criteria and handoff documentation
• Support iterative design improvements based on user testing and stakeholder feedback

User Testing & Validation:

• Conduct usability testing A/B testing and UI validation sessions
• Analyze results and recommend design refinements to improve user efficiency and satisfaction
• Ensure final designs meet mission objectives and enduser needs

Documentation & Communication:

• Produce design specifications prototypes and visual documentation supporting development
• Maintain design libraries and reusable components for consistency across applications
• Present design concepts and UX findings to leadership mission stakeholders and engineering teams

Required Qualifications:

• Must have an Active Top Secret Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience in UI/UX design humancentered design or digital product development
• Proven expertise in designing complex datarich interfaces for enterprise or missioncritical applications
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma Sketch Adobe XD or similar
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments
• Strong communication research prototyping and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate complex workflows into intuitive user experiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting DOJ FBI Intelligence Community or nationalsecurity programs
• Familiarity with cloudbased applications data visualizations and microservice architectures
• Experience with accessibility compliance (Section 508 / WCAG)
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS or frontend concepts to support development alignment

Established in 2010 @Orchard LLC has an exceptional reputation providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management not in one narrow skillset but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities visit our Jobs Page at .

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