Digital Experience Design UX Engineer [On-Site]

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Job Description:

At Regions, the Digital Experience Design UX Engineer drives user-centered designs for the betterment of our customers and our business groups. This role works as an active partner with inclusive, cross-functional XD squads throughout the digital product lifecycle to help build innovative and meaningful solutions that create a desirable customer experience. The UX Engineer takes a pragmatic and systems thinking approach to front-end development and is motivated by collaborating to create inclusive experiences and clean, responsible code.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leads a team of front-end developers to ensure the team writes maintainable, scalable, and accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for user interface (UI) components and page designs
• Leads coding and documentation efforts for the maintenance and growth of the design system
• Leads code testing efforts for visual, unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Sets code quality standards for front-end development and ensures standards are met via code reviews
• Collaborates with partners to ensure the design system team is delivering what's needed to make implementation teams successful
• Seeks opportunities to mentor junior staff
• Leads team in Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, backlog refinement, cycle goal setting, and retros
• Understands and maintains the complete development architecture for the design system and related prototypes
• Sets the development priorities for the design system and related prototypes
• Proactively ensures the long-term success of the design system and front-end prototypes using the design system
• Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field and eight (8) years of experience with front-end development
• High School Diploma/GED and twelve (12) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience with front-end development

Preferences

• Ability to showcase front-end development, process, and problem-solving skills

Skills and Competencies

• A systems thinking and proactive problem-solving approach to identifying common UI patterns and distilling them down into highly repeatable components
• Ability to collaborate with designers to establish which UI patterns should be adopted into the design system and which should remain specific to a project
• Ability to establish meaningful relationships with cross-functional teams including development and product management within and across product groups
• Ability to improve existing methods, tools, and processes to increase output across job functions and their team
• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
• Ability to work within Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe development methodologies
• An understanding of the importance of accessibility in front-end development and design
• Commitment to inclusive design and accessibility (strong understanding working within WCAG guidelines)
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others’ perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly
• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of at least one modern JavaScript framework or library like React,