14396 Web Designer OMH Albany NY (Hybrid)

Web Designer
Location: Albany, NY (Hybrid)
Shift: M-F, 8:00am - 5:00pm, with half hour unpaid lunch
Pay Rate: $49.04 - 50.85 / per hour

Job Summary

This position will fill a key role on priority projects in support of the New York State Office of Mental Health's mission. The goal of the Legacy Risk Remediation Projects is to rewrite legacy applications built on an aging infrastructure and antiquated technologies into new and currently supported coding platforms. This position will be responsible for UI/UX activities such as wireframing, building mockups and prototypes, providing demonstrations to stakeholders and development teams, etc.

Job Description

• Work in a collaborative team environment that includes project management, business analysis, information development, software development, and quality assurance.
• Analyze business requirements to design user interfaces.
• Evaluate user interface designs and write user interface specifications.
• Build wireframes using Figma if needed from business analysts.
• Utilize Figma to build mockups to demonstrate designs to the team and to users.
• Provide CSS and HTML of prototypes (upon team's agreement) to provide for use by the development team.
• Perform accessibility testing of legacy and new UI to ensure they adhere to WCAG AA standards.
• Utilize the NYS Design System to ensure all UI remains compliant and consistent.

Job Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in web-based application user interface design which leverage emergent technologies and accessibility standards defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• 7 years of experience in user interface design using tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Balsamiq, UXPin, Figma or other visual design and wire-framing tools.
• 7 years of experience with building and demonstrating UI prototypes.
• 5 years of experience and knowledge of using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and responsive design coding for mobile devices.
• 5 years of experience in using development tracking tools like Jira.
• 5 years of experience working with TFS/Azure DevOps and navigating projects in Visual Studio.
• 4 years of experience troubleshooting styling and browser compatibility issues
• 4 years of experience designing web-based health care applications.
• 3 years of experience working on applications which contain Health Care data that fall under HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI).

Required Skills/Certifications

Authorized to work in the US. NYS Requires proof of authorization be provided as part of the application process

A minimum of 7 of the 9 qualifications listed under the Job Qualifications

Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V