[xrecnet] WCMS / Interactive developer

Job Title : WCMS / Interactive developer

Location : Bethesda, MD; Arlington, VA 

Duration : Fulltime

 

 

Job Description:

 

We are looking for a self-motivated candidate who can quickly turn visual design and wireframes into functional pages and contribute to idea generation and development. Turn-around time is usually short and fast paced. You will work very closely with others in the user experience team, especially designers and information architects; coming up with new ideas and ways to implement their designs

Qualified applicants must be detail-oriented, result-driven individuals who work well within team environments and have good interpersonal skills, as well as good client interaction skills.

 

Responsibilities:

• Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, and branding (with guidance and oversight).
• Lead participatory design/user testing sessions (with oversight and direction).
• Identify and document meaningful patterns from the findings; provide recommendations to the client/internal team based on findings.
• Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes across the different stages of the design.
• Develop personas/segmentations based on research findings (with guidance and oversight).
• Create engaging scenarios and develop frameworks describing key aspects of a proposed experience, and how it reconciles business and user needs.
• Create visually compelling representations of the solution's high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept models).
• Develop visual representations of the organizational structure, hierarchy, and relationships of screens in a site (i.e., site maps) as well as the interactions between the user and the functional modules in the solution (with guidance and oversight).
• Develop screen details (i.e., wireframes) depicting all elements on a unique screen type, including the content, functional, and navigation specifications (with guidance and oversight).
• Communicate effectively with creative user experience team and technical development team.
• Ensure we meet all 508 accessibility requirements.
• Develop front-end/presentation layer code, including XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Assist lead designer with various design activities; such as web page designs, creation of banner images, buttons, etc.
• Translate visual designs into completed HTML pages while strictly adhering to design specifications.
• Integrate presentation layer code with CMS technologies.
• Implement front-end structure and standards as defined by Creative Lead.
• Work closely with back-end developers to ensure the integrity of the UI throughout the development life-cycle.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and resolve bugs where required.
• Identify tools, templates, and techniques that evolve existing approaches for the larger Creative Design community at Sapient.
• Based on functional specifications, optimize development for User Experience.

 

Requirements:

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Eligible for U.S. Government Clearance. 

 

Experience Guidelines: 

• 3+ years of industry experience.
• 1+ years of experience working with a Web Content Management System (WCMS)
• Experience working with Percussion WCMS a high plus
• Experience working with responsive web designs and mobile web sites
• Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods and techniques.
• Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Prior experience in a consulting firm or agency preferred.
• Has done cross-browser development and testing
• Experience with Wireframes and Proof-of-concept mockups
• Ability to learn new UI technologies quickly
• Knowledge of hand-coded HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and DOM.
• Experience in developing standards-based, CSS-driven, table-less layouts.
• Knowledge of Section 508 standards and compliance
• Understanding of SEO and accessibility issues as they relate to the front-end.
• Graphics manipulation/optimization skills using Photoshop, Illustrator. etc.
• Graphics development, creating visual design comps skills using Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. a plus
• Heroic get-it-done attitude
• Knowledge of Javascript/UI libraries (JQuery, etc.) and their use in implementing AJAX solutions a plus.
• Experience working with portal technologies and/or backend frameworks (Java, .NET) a plus

 

Education:

Bachelor's Degree required from college or University.

 

 

Rajat Jain

Technical Recruiter
Elite Consulting, Inc.

rajat@eliteconsultinginc.net
www.eliteconsultinginc.net

Phone: 240-252-6020 

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