UI and UX Designer

Job ID 2511426 Location FORT BELVOIR, VA, US Date Posted 2025-11-21 Category Information Technology Subcategory Web Design Schedule Full-time Shift Day Job Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time Minimum Clearance Required Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain TS/SCI Potential for Remote Work Yes Description 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.