UX/UI Solutions Architect - Remote - Houston, TX
🔍 Key Highlights
- 🎯 Lead high-impact UX/UI architecture for a major digital transformation
- 🧠 Blend design thinking with enterprise-level technical strategy
- 🗣️ Directly engage with C-suite stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- 🌐 Shape scalable, performant, and user-centric applications
🛠 Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution design for large-scale application refactoring and re-platforming projects.
- Act as primary UX/UI strategist and advisor across all engagement phases—discovery, definition, delivery, and transition.
- Conduct client workshops to identify user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in ambiguous environments.
- Collaborate with internal tech/product teams to ensure seamless integration between UX design and backend systems.
- Translate business/user requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and experience maps in collaboration with design/dev teams.
- Communicate design rationale and technical implications to gain stakeholder alignment and buy-in.
- Define and document UX architecture strategies, information hierarchies, design systems, and UI component libraries.
- Identify project risks and implement mitigation strategies proactively.
- Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear alignment on milestones and deliverables.
- Facilitate design reviews, feedback sessions, and uphold human-centered design practices throughout delivery.
✅ Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in UX/UI architecture and design for enterprise-level applications.
- Proven success in digital transformation initiatives (refactoring, re-platforming, modernization) with tangible business outcomes.
- Strong ability to translate abstract ideas and incomplete requirements into concrete design strategies.
- Exceptional communication skills with experience presenting to executive leadership.
- Deep knowledge of design systems, accessibility standards, and modern front-end frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and prototyping/wireframing platforms.
- Familiarity with web application architecture, APIs, performance optimization, and integration standards.
- Ability to own the full UX design lifecycle—from whiteboard to implementation.
- Experience working closely with developers, architects, and product teams to ensure design feasibility and scalability.
- Prior consulting or agency experience highly preferred.
💡 Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with agile and hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks) is a strong plus.
- Certifications in UX, Design Thinking, or Architecture (e.g., TOGAF) are a bonus.
- Familiarity with Oil & Gas industry clients is desirable but not required.
🚀 Why Join Us
This is a unique opportunity to lead the UX/UI strategy for a Fortune 500 client undergoing a critical digital transformation. You'll have full ownership of the experience architecture, collaborate with top-tier talent, and help shape solutions that scale across millions of users. If you're a design-forward strategist who thrives at the intersection of business, tech, and creativity—this is your role.