Ad Hoc

Title: Senior Designer (Remote) Location: Mc Lean, VA Department: Veterans Affairs Job Description: Senior Designer Job number: 848 This is a remote position. Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people s needs and transform their experience of government. Work on things that matter Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we re also changing how the government approaches technology. Built for a remote life Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers. Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works. The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes. Primary Responsibilities: Senior Designer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program s design strategy. You may serve as the discipline s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Designer include: - Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management - May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads - Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery - Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions - Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities - Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs - Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy - Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes - Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways - Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders - Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts - Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements - Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions - Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations - May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards - Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks - May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines - Participates in grading candidate homeworks and participating in panel interviews Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor s degree and 7+ years of experience - Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education - Proficiency in user journey mapping and qualitative data analysis - Experience in creating design prototypes and wireframing (e.g., using tools like Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD) - Strong skills in designing accessible user experiences and developing content strategies Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in government contracting - Experience supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join Benefits: - Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance - Flexible PTO - 401K with employer match - Paid parental leave after one year of service - Employee Assistance Program Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply. In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000-$130,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. job reference: https://adhoc.team/

• Serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, expected to further develop leadership, guidance and mentoring skills • Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements • Impacts the long-term goals of the program while contributing to the implementation of the program's development strategy • May serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders • Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, informs educational opportunities and system improvements • Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills

• Serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team • Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements • Impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the programs DevOps and software engineering strategy • Collaborates across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services • Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team • Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design • Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and improves the broader developer experience for engineers • Develops CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed • Proactively works with government partners to ensure software meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

• Build and maintain user-facing applications using Angular, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript, implementing designs from Figma specifications using federal Design System components • Write and maintain Selenium and Cypress end-to-end tests for UI workflows, contributing to automated test coverage targets for all new and modified code • Ensure frontend implementations meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards in collaboration with the UX/Accessibility enabling team • Debug, optimize, and monitor work across test and production environments, participating in CI/CD pipeline contributions as appropriate • Participate in mandatory peer code review and adhere to the four-eyes principle on all commits • Collaborate with backend engineers, QA, and UX designers to deliver complete features from story refinement through production deployment • Participate in SAFe ceremonies including sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives • Contribute to Design System component development, helping maintain consistency across program modules • Support on-call rotations as needed and develop cross-functional knowledge through paired programming

• Senior Data Architect serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. • With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. • A Senior Data Architect impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program's data architecture strategy. • You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in data architecture processes and practices. • Lead complex legacy data migrations end-to-end, including schema mapping, data profiling, phased migration sequencing, parallel-run validation, and cutover with automated rollback procedures. • Design and maintain cloud-native data pipelines using event-driven infrastructure (SNS/SQS, Lambda/Step Functions) to support BI and analytics workflows. • Architect data analytics repositories that are production-ready, monitored, and fully documented so agency staff and external tools can operate without contractor dependency. • Manage digital artifact and content management lifecycles including upload, storage, review, and archiving across AWS and Azure/M365 environments. • Drive data governance across programs, including lineage documentation, dictionary standardization, and glossary development. • Align data architecture and standardize access patterns to make data available to BI tools, apps, and web platforms. • Translate business and agency requirements into functional BI portals and dashboards. • Present architectural decisions clearly to mixed audiences, from engineers to product owners to federal agency stakeholders. • Mentor junior analysts and engineers and participate in technical interviews and candidate evaluations. • May lead small, less critical, or temporary structures and projects.

• Lead full stack development across front end and back end systems supporting federal copyright modernization workstreams • Plan and execute technical roadmaps independently, without explicit direction from technical supervisors • Serve as the primary technical lead for your workstream, proactively communicating progress, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders • Elaborate on and evolve complex, ambiguous systems to surface constraints and uncover new opportunities • Reduce technical ambiguity through documentation, refactoring, and automated testing practices • Advocate for sound technical solutions in planning sessions, communicating tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences • Participate in technical depth interviews with prospective candidates • Support bid writing, tech demos, and client-facing communications by articulating system history, design decisions, and past performance • Periodically travel to collaborate with clients, partners, and stakeholders as needed

• Designer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. • With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. • You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. • Exhibits influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management team members. • Responsible for both program tactical assignments, as well as strategic initiatives to meet delivery requirements. • Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery. • Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes. • Utilizes design skills including typography and hierarchy. • Supports the development and communication of milestones; and delivers upon their area of expertise. • Proactively partners with Senior Designers, and is receptive to mentorship. • Leads the development of competitive analyses and reports results to stakeholders. • Contributes to design libraries, providing visual design and brand artifacts. • Collaborates with a multi-disciplined team to facilitate discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements. • Demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor designers, with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow within the design discipline. • Development of storytelling skills to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions. • Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations. • May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards. • Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks. • May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines.

• The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Technical Lead) serves as a senior technical contributor and engineering leader within a cross-functional delivery team. • This role combines hands-on software development with technical leadership, mentorship, architecture guidance, and delivery support. • You will help shape engineering direction, drive technical excellence, and support the growth of fellow engineers while partnering closely with product, design, and federal stakeholders to deliver mission-critical solutions. • With minimal oversight, you will help guide technical decisions, support delivery execution, and influence the long-term engineering strategy of the program. • You will serve as a trusted technical leader who promotes engineering best practices, removes delivery obstacles, and helps ensure high-quality outcomes across the team. • Primary expectations include: Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex frontend and backend solutions within a cloud-native microservice architecture.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of complex frontend and backend solutions within a cloud-native microservice architecture. • Provide technical leadership across engineering initiatives, helping teams break down work, identify risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver against program goals and timelines. • Facilitate technical design discussions, author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and present system designs and recommendations to engineers, product owners, and federal stakeholders. • Serve as a mentor and coach for junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing activities. • Establish and reinforce engineering best practices, including peer code reviews, testing standards, accessibility requirements, security compliance, and maintainable software design. • Build and consume RESTful APIs using versioned OpenAPI specifications while contributing to backend services, frontend applications, and system integrations. • Enforce engineering quality standards, including SonarQube quality gate compliance, automated testing, and remediation of security findings within development cycles. • Partner closely with product managers, designers, delivery leads, and stakeholders to align technical solutions with customer and business objectives. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across software engineering processes, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and team workflows. • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues while leading root-cause analysis efforts and implementing long-term improvements to reliability and performance. • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code standards, Terraform automation, GitLab pipeline optimization, and cloud modernization efforts. • Support technical hiring activities through interviews, candidate assessments, onboarding, and engineering team development. • Act as a technical lead for project workstreams, feature teams, or temporary delivery teams, coordinating engineering efforts and helping ensure successful delivery outcomes.

• Support the modernization and sustainment of the Veterans Enrollment System (VES). • Design, implement, maintain, and support complex system-to-system integrations. • Enable secure, reliable data exchange between VES and numerous enterprise partners. • Collaborate with enterprise architects, technical leads, and integration stakeholders. • Monitor integration performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement improvements.