Lead Engineer - II_Detailed Design

JOB SUMMARY This job will help define product features and capabilities to establish an industry-leading design system for Highmark Health. Providing our design teams with tools and scalable solutions to create experiences that will transform healthcare and help our members live their best lives. This job will focus on designing and documenting reusable components to support and evolve our design system. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES • Clearly define and document the decisions and design principles utilized while creating the components, including UI states, accessibility guidelines, and interactions. • Actively contribute to the creation of a scalable and elegant design system to ensure quality, speed, and innovation across the products and experiences we enable. • Activate system operation frameworks, including providing assistance, responding to requests, patching defects, and consulting with external teams. • Partner closely with cross-disciplinary teams (development, content, research, stakeholders) to solve experience needs by implementing an expressive, scalable, and intuitive design system across our platforms. • Act as an ambassador for design championing and driving cultural change, unafraid to challenge the status quo and reimagine how we do business to deliver superior customer experiences • Identify and communicate new and emerging risks and opportunities while confidently recommending tradeoffs on design decisions. • Other duties as assigned or requested. SKILLS • Bring passion and curiosity about design systems, emerging technology, and design trends to help other designers understand potential pitfalls and opportunities of design systems • Have a working knowledge of responsibilities necessary to specialize in a design systems role • Working knowledge of collaborating with Front-end engineers to support meeting the needs of a robust library and design system • Capable facilitation, collaboration, and consensus-building skills, with experience in presenting to cross-functional teams and senior leaders • Knowledgeable in creating accessible designs based on regulations and guidelines (i.e., WCAG) to advocate for inclusive design for all users • Basic understanding of best practices for design systems, user experience standards, and guidelines for building within digital platforms, including web, iOS, and Android • Demonstrates solid competency of user-centered design process and execution of end-to-end product experiences and scalable design systems for medium - large organizations • Up-to-date knowledge of current industry design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Principle), with a strong skillset in creating components and shared library functionalities • Organized self-starter with the ability to work on multiple projects/tasks at once with some oversight and deliver high quality, pixel-perfect work on time in an Agile environment • Knack for design thinking exercises and human-centered (HCD) facilitation methods to solve challenges