Senior Professional Application Designer

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops complex design documents and translates requirements into component-level designs to accelerate development.
• Assists in application strategy, system design, and data-gathering approaches.
• Provides high-level design expertise to enable flexible, reusable components and increase cost-effectiveness.
• Analyzes, designs, and reviews applications and suites of applications to ensure business and customer specifications are met.
• Coordinates efforts between application architects and development teams to ensure product development and implementation are aligned.
• Partners with product development teams and senior designers to define accurate design requirements.
• Recommends alternative technical solutions when appropriate to meet requirement needs.
• Conducts technical research, evaluates tools, methodologies, and standards to ensure designs adhere to industry and organizational standards.
• Develops and maintains technical documentation and participates in test-plan development, integration, and deployment.
• Supports business process sessions, project meetings, and joint application development activities to communicate design decisions.
• Acts as a domain expert and works closely with software developers to explain application design and coordinate activities to enhance product quality and efficiency.
• Participates in cost and feasibility analysis of technical approaches.
• Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced designers and developers.
• Guides less experienced developers to create, maintain, and communicate application design details.
• May provide technical consulting support on complex projects.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering system capacity, limitations, operating time, and desired results.

Skills:

• Application and system design
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Technical architecture and solution design
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Technical documentation
• Cost analysis and feasibility assessment
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Mentoring and leadership skills
• SQL
• Linux commands
• IWS

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6+ years of application or product design experience.
• Strong experience with software design and development methodologies.
• Experience working with system design principles and enterprise applications.
• Experience working with appropriate programming languages, operating systems, hardware, and software.
• Ability to work independently and guide junior team members.
• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent professional experience.