Digital Experience Design UX Engineer [On-Site]

Regions Bank•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Regions, the Digital Experience Design UX Engineer drives user-centered designs for the betterment of our customers and our business groups. This role works as an active partner with inclusive, cross-functional XD squads throughout the digital product lifecycle to help build innovative and meaningful solutions that create a desirable customer experience. The UX Engineer takes a pragmatic and systems thinking approach to front-end development and is motivated by collaborating to create inclusive experiences and clean, responsible code.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related field and eight (8) years of experience with front-end development
High School Diploma/GED and twelve (12) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience with front-end development

Nice To Haves

Ability to showcase front-end development, process, and problem-solving skills
A systems thinking and proactive problem-solving approach to identifying common UI patterns and distilling them down into highly repeatable components
Ability to collaborate with designers to establish which UI patterns should be adopted into the design system and which should remain specific to a project
Ability to establish meaningful relationships with cross-functional teams including development and product management within and across product groups
Ability to improve existing methods, tools, and processes to increase output across job functions and their team
Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
Ability to work within Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe development methodologies
An understanding of the importance of accessibility in front-end development and design
Commitment to inclusive design and accessibility (strong understanding working within WCAG guidelines)
Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others’ perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly
Expert-level knowledge and understanding of at least one modern JavaScript framework or library like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, etc. and their meta-frameworks like Next, Gatsby, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, etc.
Expert-level knowledge and understanding of semantic HTML, scalable CSS and the cascade, and JavaScript
Expert-level understanding of CSS preprocessors like SASS/SCSS
Expert-level understanding of scalable CSS architecture and CSS methodologies such as BEM, ITCSS, OOCSS, etc.
Experience in establishing CSS build tools and delivery infrastructure and writing code that enables design system assets (design tokens, SCSS, CSS, Figma files, documentation site) to be delivered to a variety of development teams of designers and developers
Experience in setting up and maintaining automated CI/CD workflow
Experience receiving data from a REST or GraphQL API and displaying it in a UI
Experience with automating build processes and working with package managers
Experience with contemporary design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.
Interest or experience with web components and related frameworks and libraries
Pragmatic approach to working within existing tech stacks while keeping an eye on the industry for opportunities for improvement
Strong understanding of cross-browser testing across desktop and mobile browsers
Strong understanding of modern CSS layout techniques (flexbox, grid, container queries, etc.)
Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills
Previous Regions experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads a team of front-end developers to ensure the team writes maintainable, scalable, and accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for user interface (UI) components and page designs
Leads coding and documentation efforts for the maintenance and growth of the design system
Leads code testing efforts for visual, unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
Sets code quality standards for front-end development and ensures standards are met via code reviews
Collaborates with partners to ensure the design system team is delivering what's needed to make implementation teams successful
Seeks opportunities to mentor junior staff
Leads team in Agile ceremonies like stand-ups, backlog refinement, cycle goal setting, and retros
Understands and maintains the complete development architecture for the design system and related prototypes
Sets the development priorities for the design system and related prototypes
Proactively ensures the long-term success of the design system and front-end prototypes using the design system
Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices