Lead UX Engineer (Onsite)

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead UX Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: This is an onsite role in Washington DC

Responsibilities:

* Guide the user experience process to ensure a cohesive and unified experience across various operational and financial IT products.

* Serve as a center of excellence for UX in each project.

* Facilitate user engagement sessions and oversee the deliverables from UX vendor teams to ensure consistent visual and interaction patterns across projects.

* Provide UX guidance for enterprise initiatives and enhancements.

* Collaborate directly with business sponsors and subject matter experts to understand business requirements and constraints.

* Actively conduct user modeling and task analysis and develop personas and scenarios.

* Facilitate user research sessions and communicate the findings.

* Create or advise on content architecture and navigation design.

* Translate complex user requirements and technical constraints into simple user interfaces.

* Recommend solutions for complex interaction problems and enhance the overall user experience within and across applications.

* Experience in user experience design for platforms or during platform implementation is an advantage.

* Envisioning the user experience for multiple enterprise applications with complex business needs

* Experience with Figma is important

* Connecting dots and bringing a cohesive experience across deliverables produced in different project tracks

* Managing multiple projects from a UX perspective being responsible for adherence to standards for the timely and quality delivery of artifacts

Qualifications

* At least 10 years of relevant work experience in UX design

* Usability Analyst certification desirable

* Basic experience with other Prototyping tools HTML/CSS & Photoshop is a plus

* In depth knowledge of usability engineering and information architecture

* In depth knowledge of interaction design

* High level of visual design expertise

* Broad level of understanding of information systems and application development methodologies

* Systems application development methodologies emerging tech

* Strong interpersonal skills and a team player

* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

* Understanding of the trade offs between optimum user experience and technical information security and business constraints and ability to propose appropriate compromises.

Application for this role will be accepted until 2/28/25