Vacant Positions at Accenture

Job Summary

We are looking for exceptional Front End Developers to work with our cross-functional team, and join our world-class community of talented experts.

Job Requirement

• Work with Project management and solution architects to estimate and scope out projects.
• Work with Creative team during planning, discovery and production phase.
• Work with backend development team to create and optimize solution.
• Optimizing code for performance.
• Comment code and produce documentation to industry standards as needed.
• Produce code to the highest standards while adhering to industry accepted architecture and design pattern techniques and methodologies (e.g., MVC, SOA, OOP, DI etc.)
• Create rapid high-fidelity prototypes using UI Frameworks while working with creative teams.

Qualifications

Ideally you will have

• At least 5+ years of experience with Angular and React
• Good understanding of OOPs concepts.
• Strong hands on knowledge on HTML5, CSS3, ES6+
• Strong understanding of the React Virtual DOM, JSX and API
• Hands on experience on REST APIs, GraphQL and WebSocket
• Experience with a State-management framework like Redux (with middleware) or MobX
• Comfortable with concepts like Container/Presentation components, Higher Order Components
• Worked with UI libraries like Material-UI, Semantic UI, Bootstrap or similar
• Good understanding of CSS in JS, aka scoped-css or Styled Components
• Unit testing with Karma + Mocha or Jest
• Experience working with client-side templating languages like Handlebars, Mustache or similar.
• Experience on working with frontend build systems and automating the same using Grunt / Gulp
• Experience on MVC frameworks (Backbone.js, or similar) and knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns will be good to have
• Experience of working with server-side JavaScript frameworks based on Node.js
• Exposure to Style Guides, Atomic Design
• Exposure to Design tools like Sketch, Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer
• Good verbal and written communication in English

Additional good to have

• Comfortable with one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Swift, PHP
• DevOps skills like good understanding of Shell commands, deployment, system updates, security configurations of web servers and Docker configurations.
• Fair understanding of React Native and/or Cordova/PhoneGap/Ionic

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Key Responsibilities:

As a Product Designer in the CoE, you are a multi-skilled individual that is able to combine UX and UI capabilities to deliver value for businesses and their customers. The role requires foresight to produce sustainable outputs that can be tested, validated, and integrated into the daily lives of millions across Africa. At all times you will assess the value of the designed experience and ensure a high level of craft within your work. You will have the chance to work across a broad range of projects that enable the business to scale, bring new products to market, and captivate customers through powerful digital experiences.

Daily activities include but not limited to:

Discover

• Requirements elicitation
• Behavioural data analysis
• User surveys and interviews
• Persona’s and mental models
• Empathy maps
• Current product analysis
• Competitor product analysis
• Best practice analysis
• User testing and feature validation

Describe

• Solutioning workshops
• Feature listing and prioritization
• UX definition and principles
• Browsing flows
• Low-medium fidelity wireframing
• Functional prototyping
• Accessibility implementation guidelines
• User stories and product roadmap contribution

Design

• Look and feel establishment
• Graphic user interface design
• Accessibility implementation and testing
• Micro-copy and UX writing
• Multi-device design and rollout
• Design system utilisation and extension
• Micro-interactions and motion prototyping

Develop

• Annotated design specifications
• Visual asset preparation
• Development implementation review
• Product experience testing
• Content quality assurance checks
• Design system governance support

Qualifications

Relevant tertiary qualification

• Strong portfolio of product and platform design work
• Proficient in utilising prototyping software, Figma and the Adobe suite
• A superb eye for design with strong attention to detail
• Good understanding of branding, marketing, data, media, social UI, UX, business analysis and technology trends
• Ability to articulate and defend design decisions
• The ability to create scalable component libraries
• Good understanding of the development process and agile methodologies
• Ability to work well alongside internal and external client teams
• Take initiative and follow a self-leadership approach
• Positive can-do attitude
• Organised and efficient
• Deadline orientated
• Empathetic towards others
• Strong team player contributing towards positive and respectful collaboration
• Willingness to be challenged
• Be able to perform within a high-pressure environment