About the Role

This position is for a Senior Development Engineer for the McAfee Consumer User Interface team. The candidate will be responsible for design development and maintenance of various projects executed by the consumer User Interface team on the consumer e-Commerce system and various internal systems. Candidate should have good design skills and have good skills in the web UI technologies. Candidate should have experience in converting design concepts into web UI elements and produce high performing pages to be served efficiently.



Primary Responsibilities:

1. Translate conceptual ideas into engaging visual presentations and design solutions

2. Conceptualize and create brand-consistent, easy-to-use, attractive and meaningful user interfaces for use on the web, for both intranet and extranet web applications.

3. Express creatively a message to a consumer

4. Ability to design showing good understand of cultural and global design nuances

5. Develop cross browser compatible web pages

6. Develop CSS based style sheets, images etc

7. Communicate your design thinking in a way that works for all the parties involved (engineers and business stakeholders)

8. Develop easy to maintain styling approaches following best practices.

9. Develop UI for web applications following W3C Standards.

Experience



1. Over 5 years of experience in building web application front end

2. Bachelor's degree required in design-related discipline: Interaction, Graphic or Interface design or similar is a must.

3. Must have proven skills in graphic design. Your design portfolio should demonstrate an excellent eye for typography, mastery of clean and intuitive layouts, purposeful color, and a strong attention to detail. Your work should show a deep appreciation for simple, sleek, usable interfaces.

4. Must be proficient in DreamWeaver, and ADOBE PhotoShop

5. Ability to create wireframes and mock-ups from the PRDs (product requirement document).

6. Ability to develop cross-platform browser compatible web pages.

7. Ability to work in a fast-paced cross-functional team environment is a must.

8. Must have thorough understanding of overall website design, including basic usability, industry standards, architecture and navigation.

9. Must be an expert in Photoshop and Illustrator.

10. Must have HTML skills including XHTML, table-less layouts, DOM Scripting and CSS.

11. Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

12. Exposure to AJAX Toolkit, and JQuery



Preferred Skills:

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, ASP.Net platform

2. Understanding of Rich Internet Application (RIA) concepts and design patterns.

3. Interaction design skills: experience creating wire frames, site/system flows, site architecture diagrams, etc. is preferred.

4. Good exposure to Flash programming is preferred

5. Exposure to Object Oriented Javascript is a plus.

6. Some experience in software source control systems is preferred such as ACCUREV