Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Purpose of Job
The UI Designer and Developer, will work in the Software Engineering team to create User Interfaces for the planning and operation of the Telesat Lightspeed system.
Main Responsibilities:
- Develop in-depth knowledge of application requirements, software architecture, and design specifications
- Actively participate in the development and review of system requirements to obtain a thorough understanding of user needs
- Advise on User Experience design and User Interface development practices and tools
- Provide development activities level of effort and duration estimates for planning and scheduling
- Work with development leads to design user interfaces that meet system requirements and provide outstanding user experiences. Create wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes.
- Develop UI source code following established company standards and development guidelines
- Conduct interface usability assessment, quality assurance, and debugging support
- Provide regular updates to management on work in progress, work completed, work planned and issues potentially impacting the timely completion or quality level of work
- Contribute to user documentation
Education & Experience Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience working in UI/UX and software development
- Strong programming skills in relevant industry standard languages (e.g. Java, Javascript, Python, C#, etc.)
- Experience with UI frameworks, in particular Angular and React
- Familiarity with User Experience best practices
- Knowledge of multi-lingual interfaces
- Familiarity with agile development and software lifecycles
- Creative problem-solving skills and strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong written and oral English communication skills
Specialized Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Javascript, Angular, React
- Balsamiq, Figma, Adobe suite, etc.
- Visual Studio Code or some other Integrated Development Environment
- Web-hosted applications
- Unit tests
Equipment Used
- Computers with Windows or Linux operating system
Decision Making & Supervision:
Decision Making
- In this role, the incumbent will have influence on the design and implementation of user interfaces for Lightspeed System Operations software tools. They will need to make recommendations and decisions based on their knowledge and experience.
Supervision Exercised
- This role has no direct reports, but will work and interact with multi-disciplinary engineering and commercial teams.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
