Job Details: Senior Technologist - Seattle
| Job Title: | Senior Technologist - Seattle |
| Job ID: | 5790 |
| Company: | frog design Inc. |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Commensurate with experience |
| Skills: | Microsoft .NET 3.x (WPF/XAML), Microsoft Silverlight, Qt Desktop, Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR, (X)HTML/CSS |
| Date Posted: | Apr-22-08 |
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About frog design, inc.
frog design, inc. is one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences, frog helps Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand, and envision their businesses. Founded in Germany in 1969, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; and Stuttgart, Germany. With a cross-disciplinary team of more than 325 employees, frog offers a broad range of industry expertise, in fields such as consumer electronics, software, entertainment, finance, medical, retail, and fashion. Clients include Alltel, Disney, GE, HP, Logitech, Microsoft, MTV, Seagate, Yahoo! and others.
The Senior Technologist is an expert in UI/UX within the overall context of application development. He/she is responsible for requirements analysis, rapid visual and interaction prototyping, visual and non-visual component design, and successful implementation and/or integration of applications and services across presentation, logic, and data services tiers. At frog design, the Senior Technologist will not only provide a high-fidelity implementation, but also creatively enhances the vision of the interaction and visual design. He/she bridges the gap between design and technology by providing technical guidance during the design process -- not only bringing awareness to constraints, but also applying their creative thinking and problem solving abilities to create opportunities for innovation, Other responsibilities include collaborating with designers to express requirements as interactive prototypes, utilizing appropriate tools, assets, and methodologies to facilitate the iterative workflow between designers and technologists, and leveraging his/her own design sensibilities during implementation cycles. The Senior Technologist will often work closely with one or more Technologists and Technical Architects.
A Senior Technologist translates requirements into detailed application specifications using best practices such as object-oriented design and a sound knowledge of the software design lifecycle. He/she also negotiates data services integration, develops or specifies the logic necessary to support data-binding within the user interface, and has responsibility for the layout, controls, interactions, and animation of user interfaces. In addition to these responsibilities, Senior Technologists provide leadership throughout the project lifecycle, serve as the primary technical contact with clients and third-parties, participate in project scoping and estimation tasks, and provide solution, application, or services architecture recommendations.
To be considered, candidates must demonstrate user interface and/or application development expertise and have professional experience delivering a commercial release in at least two of the following domains/technologies:
• Desktop, Rich Internet/Platform, or Web Applications in Microsoft .NET 3.x (WPF/XAML), Microsoft Silverlight, Qt Desktop, Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript, or AJAX
• Mobile Applications in Qualcomm uiOne, BREW, Symbian (UIQ or Nokia Series 60), Microsoft Windows Mobile, Flash Lite, or Android
• Distributed N-Tier Applications Or Services in Microsoft .NET, LAMP, or J2EE
• Consumer or Embedded Devices
Experience with rich user interfaces, object-oriented design, data modeling, application development, and taking projects through an entire software release lifecycle is preferred. Ideal candidates will also have a portfolio of their recent work history showcasing successful software releases (particularly those which used iterative/agile methodologies such as scrum or feature driven development) and demonstrate a passion for current technology trends and best practices.
Qualifications:
• 8+ years of professional experience designing and developing software applications with rich user interfaces on a variety of technology platforms
• Experience translating requirements into object-oriented applications or dynamic websites
• Expert-level implementation skills in at least three of the technologies listed above
• Detailed design-level knowledge of at least three of the technologies listed above
• Ability to provide substantiated strategic technology and architecture recommendations
• Strong written/oral communication skills and a willingness to contribute to inline code documentation
• Bachelor's degree in the sciences, engineering, or a creative discipline is required (a master's degree is preferred)
• Strong leadership skills and a willingness to mentor junior Design Technologistss
• Ability to lead tasks throughout the project lifecycle, serve as the primary technical contact with clients and third-parties, participate in project scoping and estimation tasks, and provide architecture, solution, and/or services recommendations
Please submit your resume online to: http://www.frogdesign.com/ jobs.
frog design is an equal opportunity employer
Please provide a code sample you are particularly proud of, and why. If you have a portfolio or blog, please include in application.
| Location: [rss] | US-WA-Seattle |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| URL: | http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs/view-job.html?jobid=5790 |
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