Senior Engineer Consultant-UI/UX

About this role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Consultant to join our Verizon Value Design System team. This role will be responsible for crafting a design system that powers multiple brands, multiple channel experiences in the Verizon Value portfolio.

The Senior Engineering Consultant will code and create the visual front-end elements of the design system component library, documentation, and usage guidelines within the Verizon Value Design System. Join us to help set new standards in our category and make our customers' interactions with our brands truly reliable, simple and exceptional.

What you'll be doing

• Creating patterns for the Verizon Value Design System to create a consistent user experience
• Thoroughly explore, refine and document the development solutions
• Actively explore user context, and engage in target user activities when possible
• Participating in insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary) and create solutions that leverage user insights
• Actively research competitive products, industry trends, and topics, and recommend activities, solutions, and methods to guide team members and stakeholders
• Staying updated on Verizon's business, strategy, and organizational structure
• Effectively design solutions within Verizon's business context and revenue model
• Maintaining a working knowledge of UI standards for common platforms (iOS, Android, Web).
• Working within Verizon Value's front-end and back-end technology constraints and capabilities.
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Communicating the current project plan, goals, and expected outcomes.
• Articulating user, business, and/or technical reasoning for detailed design decisions in critiques or presentations.
• Mentoring peers and new hires by sharing experiences and processes to enable growth.
• Identifying project needs and engage stakeholders in conversation to fully understand needs.
• Presenting work and engaging in constructive dialogue with stakeholders to understand the context of tasks and ensure strong design rationale.
• Contributing to recommendations for shaping appropriate user insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary).
• Playing a role in evolving the design system by proposing updates and participating in feedback opportunities
• Exploring, refining, and documenting engineering solutions while adhering to design system guidelines

What we're looking for

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.
• Experience with common design software (Figma, Adobe, etc.).
• Experience with UI Architecture, Responsive design, SPA, and/or Design Patterns.
• Experience front-end technologies of React JS and TypeScript.
• Experience writing code and maintainable software.
• Experience with web performance, web accessibility, release cycle management, CI/CD pipeline, and/or SDLC Process.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
• Portfolio of professional work.
• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.
• Contributed to multiple design programs or shipped products with a large user base.
• Contributed to overall product success.
• Experience with Fortune 500 organizational environments.
• Experience with Redux, React Native, JavaScript (ES5, ES6), Object Oriented JavaScript, Webpack, Rollup, Ajax, SCSS, Styled Component, HTML5, and/or CSS3.
• Experience Micro Frontend, Next JS.
• Hands-on experience in writing Unit Tests using Jest.