Senior Level User Experience Architect Jobs
Senior level user experience architect jobs place experienced professionals in charge of end-to-end design systems, product strategy, and the cross-functional teams that deliver them. Openings are concentrated across Technology & Software and Banking & Financial Services, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Collabera, HAN Staffing, and State Street hiring at this level now.
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Lead UX Designer
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead UX strategy and design activities for the OIT program and related applications.
- Support the Launchpad process, including development of user-centered requirements, UX artifacts, workflows, and supporting documentation.
- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and usability assessments to understand user needs and pain points.
- Develop user journeys, personas, process flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Translate business and technical requirements into intuitive, accessible, and user-centered experiences.
- Facilitate design sessions with business users and technical teams to validate proposed solutions.
- Establish UX design standards and patterns that can be consistently applied across DGS applications.
- Ensure designs comply with ADA/accessibility requirements and applicable State of Maryland standards.
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, developers, architects, and project managers throughout the product lifecycle.
- Review vendor and implementation-partner deliverables to ensure UX requirements and design standards are met.
- Provide UX input into product roadmaps, solution decisions, enhancements, and prioritization.
- Identify usability risks and recommend improvements before solutions move into development or production.
- Maintain UX documentation and design artifacts as a central source of truth.
- Support user acceptance testing and incorporate user feedback into iterative design improvements.
- Ensure UX decisions are based on measurable user and business outcomes rather than technology alone.
- Provide knowledge transfer and continuity as external UX resources transition off the project.
Education and Years of Experience:
Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field. 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, or a related discipline.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, or a related discipline.
- Experience leading UX design activities for large-scale enterprise or government applications.
- Strong experience with user research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Experience working in Agile/product-development environments.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and user-centered design principles.
- Experience collaborating with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex business processes into simple and intuitive user experiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Delivery management experience
- Experience with government, ERP, or other enterprise systems.
- Experience with State of Maryland or other public-sector IT projects.
- Experience with design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent.
- Experience establishing UX standards/design systems for enterprise applications.
- Experience working with accessibility standards such as WCAG and ADA compliance.
Core Competencies
The UX Design Lead will be expected to produce and maintain:
- User personas and stakeholder profiles
- Current-state and future-state user journey maps
- User flows and process maps
- Wireframes and prototypes
- High-fidelity UI designs
- Usability testing plans and findings
- UX requirements and acceptance criteria
- Accessibility assessments
- UX/design standards and patterns
- Launchpad UX documentation
- Design decision documentation
- User research and feedback summaries
- UX recommendations for future product enhancements
Location: Baltimore, MD (Onsite) only Locals
Lead UX Designer
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead UX strategy and design activities for the OIT program and related applications.
- Support the Launchpad process, including development of user-centered requirements, UX artifacts, workflows, and supporting documentation.
- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and usability assessments to understand user needs and pain points.
- Develop user journeys, personas, process flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Translate business and technical requirements into intuitive, accessible, and user-centered experiences.
- Facilitate design sessions with business users and technical teams to validate proposed solutions.
- Establish UX design standards and patterns that can be consistently applied across DGS applications.
- Ensure designs comply with ADA/accessibility requirements and applicable State of Maryland standards.
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, developers, architects, and project managers throughout the product lifecycle.
- Review vendor and implementation-partner deliverables to ensure UX requirements and design standards are met.
- Provide UX input into product roadmaps, solution decisions, enhancements, and prioritization.
- Identify usability risks and recommend improvements before solutions move into development or production.
- Maintain UX documentation and design artifacts as a central source of truth.
- Support user acceptance testing and incorporate user feedback into iterative design improvements.
- Ensure UX decisions are based on measurable user and business outcomes rather than technology alone.
- Provide knowledge transfer and continuity as external UX resources transition off the project.
Education and Years of Experience:
Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field. 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, or a related discipline.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, or a related discipline.
- Experience leading UX design activities for large-scale enterprise or government applications.
- Strong experience with user research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Experience working in Agile/product-development environments.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and user-centered design principles.
- Experience collaborating with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex business processes into simple and intuitive user experiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Delivery management experience
- Experience with government, ERP, or other enterprise systems.
- Experience with State of Maryland or other public-sector IT projects.
- Experience with design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent.
- Experience establishing UX standards/design systems for enterprise applications.
- Experience working with accessibility standards such as WCAG and ADA compliance.
Core Competencies
The UX Design Lead will be expected to produce and maintain:
- User personas and stakeholder profiles
- Current-state and future-state user journey maps
- User flows and process maps
- Wireframes and prototypes
- High-fidelity UI designs
- Usability testing plans and findings
- UX requirements and acceptance criteria
- Accessibility assessments
- UX/design standards and patterns
- Launchpad UX documentation
- Design decision documentation
- User research and feedback summaries
- UX recommendations for future product enhancements
Location: Baltimore, MD (Onsite) only Locals
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Senior Level User Experience Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level user experience architect job?
Employers at this level look for candidates who can own the full architecture of a product experience, not just execute on design tasks. A strong portfolio showing systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, and measurable outcomes gives candidates the clearest edge. Demonstrated experience mentoring junior designers and influencing product direction without formal authority is increasingly a deciding factor in hiring decisions.
Which companies hire senior level user experience architects?
Companies hiring senior level user experience architects right now include Collabera, HAN Staffing, and State Street, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from large technology firms, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and enterprise software companies that maintain dedicated experience design organizations.
Are there remote senior level user experience architect jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by employer and industry. About 0% of senior level user experience architect openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for experienced designers who can lead distributed teams and collaborate asynchronously with product and engineering stakeholders.
What makes a user experience architect role senior level?
Senior level roles are defined by ownership and scope rather than task execution. Professionals at this stage set information architecture standards, define interaction patterns across entire product suites, and are accountable for design quality at a system level. They are expected to mentor other designers, align stakeholders across business units, and make consequential decisions that shape long-term product direction.
Which industries hire the most senior level user experience architects?
Senior Level user experience architect roles concentrate in Technology & Software and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors invest heavily in complex digital products and enterprise platforms where rigorous information architecture and scalable design systems are essential to user adoption and business outcomes.