SAIC
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Job ID 2511426
Location: FORT BELVOIR, VA, US
Date Posted: 2025-11-10
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Web Design
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI
Potential for Remote Work: Yes
SAIC is seeking a highly capable UI and UX Designer to lead user experience and interface design for an enterprise data automation platform. This person will define the design system; apply SAIC brand/look-and-feel; design dashboards, flows, and interaction models; collaborate with product, data, engineering and governance teams; and deliver clear Figma/UX specs for front‑end engineering. The designer will ensure that the UI conveys maturity, trust, clarity and is accessible, performant and compliant for a government environment.
We are looking for someone who is:
- Mission‑driven Passionate about building ‘mission‑grade’ user experiences, not just consumer‑grade.
- Trustworthy and Credible Visual Sense Understands how to convey professionalism, security, clarity, and enterprise purpose.
- Empathetic Strong user‑orientation, ability to step into the role of data stewards, analysts, governance users.
- Agile and Iterative Mindset Comfortable working in sprints, adapting quickly to new information or stakeholder feedback.
- Collaborative Can lead design decisions, yet iterate based on stakeholder input.
- Self‑Starter Able to own the design system, push standards, and deliver ahead of front‑end implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive design system (components, patterns, typography, color, iconography) aligned with SAIC brand and the government client.
- Translate requirements (data tagging workflows, metadata catalog, compliance dashboards) into wireframes, prototypes, mock‑ups, and interactive designs in Figma (or equivalent).
- Define user flows, storyboards, information architectures that map to data tagging pipeline, data catalog browsing/search, metadata tagging results visualization (map/timeline/confidence overlays).
- Work closely with product managers, AI engineers, and data governance SMEs to ensure design reflects mission needs, compliance (Zero Trust, CUI/IL4), and user personas (data stewards, system owners, analysts).
- Partner with the Front‑End Engineer to maintain Figma and Storybook parity, ensuring each component in the design system has an equivalent coded implementation with consistent accessibility and behavior.
- Conduct user research (workshops, interviews, usability testing) with pilot users to validate interactions, typography, accessibility, and user experience; iterate designs accordingly.
- Ensure all designs comply with WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 accessibility standards, and align with the USWDS for federal look‑and‑feel consistency.
- Advocate for consistency, high polish, performance, mobile/responsive design, and trustworthiness in visuals and interactions.
- Track and maintain design documentation in Confluence, collaborate via Jira with sprint backlog, link design artefacts to user‑stories and track design tasks.
- Contribute to sprint planning and sprint reviews; present demo screens and gather stakeholder feedback; adjust design backlog accordingly.
- Maintain awareness of UI/UX trends, mission‑critical interface best practices, design tools, and collaborative workflows (Figma, Zeplin, InVision, etc.).
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship, and an active DoD Secret Clearance, with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human‑Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field (or equivalent demonstrated experience).
- Minimum of 5 years of UI/UX design experience (preferably in enterprise software, government/compliance contexts or data‑heavy platforms).
- Proven track record with a strong portfolio of user‑interface work dashboards, analytics, data‑centric systems, and design systems.
- Strong proficiency with design tools Figma (preferred), Canva, Adobe Creative Suite; ability to produce developer‑friendly handoffs (assets, specs, CSS annotations).
- Deep understanding of UX best practices information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing.
- Experience designing interactive prototypes and hand‑offs to front‑end engineering (React/TypeScript, etc).
- Experience or familiarity with accessibility standards (government UI guidelines) and high‑trust mission environments.
- Strong collaboration skills able to engage product managers, engineers, and data scientists.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to present design rationale and adjust to government client needs.
- Ability to work in a fast‑paced agile environment quality‑driven mindset, detail oriented, while balancing design polish with speed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a government or DoD/IC environment (CUI, IL4/IL5, Zero Trust context) with familiarity of constraints such as security, classification, compliance.
- Experience designing for dashboards or visualizations in data/analytics domain (e.g., metadata catalog, tagging summaries, confidence overlays, timeline/map visualizations).
- Experience with design system creation and maintenance in enterprise settings.
- Experience or familiarity with React/TypeScript front‑end frameworks (so you can hand‑off designs more effectively).
- Experience working with collaborative tools Jira (agile backlog), Confluence (knowledge base), Teams/SharePoint for design artifacts.
- Ability to contribute to design‑ops asset libraries, component governance, versioning, design‑to‑code pipeline.
- Security mindset understanding how design must integrate with secure build/deployment and audit trails.