Government and Public Sector - UI/UX Developer, Senior Consultant

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We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector practice of Ernst & Young provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our Federal, state, local and education clients implement new ideas to help achieve their mission outcomes. We deliver real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas that drive innovation. We enable our government clients to achieve their mission of protecting the nation and serving the people; increasing public safety; improving healthcare for our military, veterans, and citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. EY is ready to help our government build a better working world. 

 

The opportunity:

 

The Ernst & Young (EY) Government & Public Sector (GPS) Digital practice is helping organizations solve complex problems through purpose-led transformation. To achieve this mission, a diverse and talented team from around the globe are creating innovative digital experiences that help our clients succeed and thrive.

 

Our US GPS digital practice combines an understanding of the public sector’s diverse mission needs with private sector leading practices.

 

You will join a talented group of professionals who are advising U.S. federal agencies with digital strategy, customer experience, process improvement, technology effectiveness, digital architecture, program integration, audit readiness and financial management, to name only a few. As a member of our GPS Digital team, you will help our clients envision, design and implement a range of high-impact digital solutions and services involving mobile technologies, customer experience, analytics, content management, cloud technologies and other services. In addition, you will work with a global team of digital practitioners on innovative technologies and help bring those solutions to market with our customers.

 

Your key responsibilities:

 

Supporting digital practice engagements, you will be expected to work effectively as team member, share responsibilities with your peers, provide all necessary support to your peers and leadership, and be able to communicate and update the senior team members and clients on progress made; provide all necessary support to your peers and leadership In addition, you will be responsible for the following:

 

• Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.
• Work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Apply extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Demonstrate an understanding of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Collaborate and communicate closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to evaluate design solutions for approval.
• Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
• Apply skills in standard design tools, specifically Adobe Creative Suite.
• Utilize tools such as, basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

 

Skills and attributes for success:

 

You will ideally have previous exposure to technology consulting, and a keen interest in collaborating with the U.S. government and Public sector. You should have strong communication skills, and business and technology acumen, and have a passion for delivering value to our clients.

 

To qualify for the role you must have:

 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ relevant experience

 

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