Position Details:
Job Title: Design Systems Architect
Location: Boston, MA, Newark, DE, , Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Hartford, CT and Jacksonville, FL - Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description
- The Lead Systems Analyst oversees the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the organization's operating systems.
- This job approves information systems designs and ensures they are appropriate for users' needs and are consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture.
- This job manages large projects and is recognized as the Systems expert on the team that solves complex issues that arise.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
- Approves of system scope through existing knowledge and fact-finding that informs the development or modification of complex information systems. groups, aiming to improve business results.
- Oversees changes to existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
- Collaborate with various IT teams and business partners to research, design, develop, test, and deploy marketing review application and reporting metrics for the Compliance business area.
- Approves flow charts, models, and procedures and feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.
- Approves technical documentation to guide system users and to assist with the ongoing operation, maintenance, and development of the system.
- Evaluates all system constraints, implications, and consequences of various proposed system changes.
- Creates procedures to solve complex problems that considers items such as computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
- Estimates the costs of system solutions and prepares project plans to provide input into decisions about prioritizing projects and allocating IT resources.
- Coaches and delegates work to lower-level professionals.
Educational Requirements
- University (Degree) Preferred
Work Experience
- 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred
Design Systems Architect
- Reporting to the head of Design Standards in our Digital Customer Experience group, the Design Systems Architect works with product & project designers to detect new components and design patterns, determine and document component requirements, and direct product and project designers in creating robust, extensible, and flexible components that are delightful, useful, usable, and accessible.
What you'll own:
- Managing the ontology, taxonomy, and nomenclature of a design system that includes responsive web and native mobile components, in a way that makes the system useful and usable for all its constituents.
- Documenting rules of use for new components, coordinating subject-matter experts' feedback on accessibility, editorial, and usability.
- Collaborating with front-end development to create a functional spec template to guide our product and project designers through the process of contributing a new component.
- Developing a rubric for documenting motion and animation standards, interaction patterns, and reusable user flows.
- Creating and managing a process for testing and monitoring experimental components for future adoption into the system.
What you'll help with:
- Reviewing projects with product and project designers to scout for new components or new uses for current components.
- Participating in a collaborative process to create component designs, driving teams to success with rigor and speed.
- Collaborating on a plan to migrate all current digital products into one design system, themed and nuanced appropriately for each audience (B2C, B2B, and internal)
What you'll bring to the team:
- 5 - 7 years' experience as an interaction designer, information architect, product design lead, and/or content strategist. Design operations or business analysis skills are a plus.
- Strong analytical, writing, and storytelling skills.
- A strong ability to read - if not create - visual designs and assess their effectiveness.
- A good working knowledge of front-end development.
- Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, InVision's suite of tools, and Miro.
- Experience creating or working within a design system, and a deep curiosity about how to structure design systems for effective governance.
Additional skills
- A design-thinking and systems-thinking focus on everything you do, including a strong focus on the overall customer experience.
- A commitment to helping to create an empowering, vibrant design culture in our organization.
- A healthy nurturing spirit, a willingness to experiment and course-correct, and a great sense of humor.
Kindest Regards,
Ankush Lather
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Experis CORE+
100 Manpower Place | Milwaukee, WI 53212
Email ID:
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Company:ExperisLocation:Boston - Massachusetts - United StatesJob Types:Full TimePost Date:November 8, 2021Valid Through:December 7, 2021