SAIC are hiring a

UI and UX Designer

Job Overview

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.

Key Attributes

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.).

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.