Hennepin County's Digital Experience (DX) department needs a User Experience (UX) Developer to ensure digital services are user-centered, accessible, consistent, and aligned with their Design System, accessibility policy, and WCAG standards.
Requirements
- Four years or more of technology experience.
- An approved information technology certificate and two years or more of IT experience.
- Completion of five college/vocational technical technology courses and two years or more of IT experience.
- Completion of an approved IT Hennepin County internship and two years or more of information technology experience.
- Two-year college/vocational technical degree in a technology field and two years or more of IT experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a technology field and one year or more of information technology experience.
- Experience in accessibility development work.
- Creating UX deliverables and responding to iterative user research, including wireframes, prototypes, and user personas used to advocate for users of websites and applications.
- Working with design system, web accessibility best practices, including meeting WCAG 2.1/2.2 Level AA and Section 508 standards.
- With UX design and development best practices, including the roles played by content strategy and information architecture.
- Executing front-end web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive design).
- Working in Visual Studio, web content management systems (such as Sitecore) and with ASP.NET MVC layouts.
- Following or contributing to style guides and/or design systems.
- Using GitHub, Azure DevOps, or other version control systems.
- Knowledge of emerging web technologies, deployment models, security considerations, and a basic understanding of user experience foundations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support semantic front-end code for resident-facing digital interfaces; focus on ensuring accessibility and creating experiences that are friendly to all users, functioning across all browsers, assistive technologies and search engines.
- Partner and collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure the design vision and UX best practices translate to the final, usable product.
- Document and incorporate design patterns, accessibility standards and UX best practices into the Hennepin County Design System to advance user-focused digital service maturity.
- Provide technical support and fulfill development requests in the web content management system (Sitecore).
- Provide technical and consulting support for DX consulting services.
- Assist with digital accessibility work efforts.
Other
- This position is hybrid and will be performed both on-site at the Government Center, 300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55487, and remote as job duties require.
- Work hours will be Monday through Friday, with typical hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Hires must reside in or relocate to Minnesota or Wisconsin.
- New Employee Orientation (NEO) for all new benefit-earning employees is in-person in downtown Minneapolis.
- Clearly communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams focused on user-centered outcomes, including technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Actively participate in team discussions, make system-based solutions recommendations and advocate for consistently positive UX.
- Leverage creative problem solving when confronted with change and complexity.
