Sr. Associate User Experience Design - Hyderabad / Secunderabad, Telangana - Amgen Technology Private Limited

Description

What you will do

• In this vital role We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI/UX Engineer Search to design and build intuitive, responsive, and accessible user experiences for our AI-driven search and knowledge discovery platforms.
• In this role, you'll work at the crossroads of design, technology, and science—helping researchers, clinicians, and regulatory professionals quickly find the information they need to make life-saving decisions. You'll bring a strong sense of usability, accessibility, and design-thinking into a highly regulated, data-rich environment.
• Design elegant, user-friendly interfaces for search platforms that enable users to explore complex scientific and medical data.
• Translate user research, business needs, and technical requirements into wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Develop responsive and dynamic UI components using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Integrate with search backends, APIs, and visualization tools to display search results, filters, ontologies, and metadata.
• Ensure UI performance, accessibility (WCAG/Section 508 compliance), and cross-browser compatibility.
• Design intuitive query experiences including search bars, faceted navigation, filters, result ranking, and interactive content previews.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate advanced features such as semantic search, auto-suggestions, Q&A interfaces, and generative answers.
• Conduct usability testing, A/B testing, and collect user feedback to continuously improve UX.
• Analyze usage data and search behavior to drive data-informed UX enhancements.
• Design and deliver high-quality UI/UX solutions for the web.
• Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and user flows.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to enhance user experience.
• Analyze and identify pain points from the users perspective by conducting user research through interviews, observations, Gemba walks and other research methods.
• Create Personas, Journey maps, empathy maps, and process maps of current and to-be state.
• Ensure pixel-perfect, responsive, innovative, and interactive designs across different devices and platforms.
• Maintain design consistency and adhere to brand guidelines.
• Create Sketches, Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes, ranging from low fidelity to high-fidelity based on the needs.
• Produce pixel-perfect interactive prototypes, Visual style guides, Icons and Red lines (Design specifications for developers).
• Ensure accessibility, SEO-friendly design, and usability best practices.
• Prepare and maintain necessary documents.
• Understand the business objectives and rationales behind high level product features; translate them into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive and easy-to-use user experiences.
• Follow Amgen design standards and style guides to produce comprehensive deliverables encompassing user flows and UI wireframes to facilitate software development.
• Familiarity with data mapping, transformation, and ETL processes.
• Proficiency in SQL is highly valued: you don't need to be able to write SQL from scratch, but you should be able to interpret statements to assist in troubleshooting.
• Experience with data governance principles will be highly valued.
• Understanding of database structures.
• Experience in overseeing the design and configuration of tests to measure incremental performance as well as configuring metadata to enable their measurement.
• How data can be used to power personalized experiences.
• The tools you will be using will include Jira, Figma, Lucidchart, CSS HTML, JavaScript.
• Expertise in creating intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and seamless user experiences.
• Convert complex requirements into elegant, intuitive, and functional designs.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications, ensuring that they operate smoothly and efficiently.
• Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Take ownership and accountability of the deliverables.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science & engineering preferred with 6-8 years of software development experience
• Minimum 3+ years of experience as a UI-UX designer
• Relevant experience or education in UX Design, Product Design
• Hands on experience with JavaScript, CSS HTML, Lucidchart, Figma designing, React Framework Redux, No SQL, Cloud CI/CD build pipelines
• Proficient in programming language React Framework Redux, GraphQL, RESTful API Development, Swagger OpenAPI, Java Microservices API, Java Crawlers, TypeScript, Fast Python, Java Script, SQL/NoSQL, Dynamo DB, S3, Databricks, RDS, GCP Cloud Search, Solr Search, GCP Cloud engine
• Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for developing basic static re-usable UI components
• Experience in Angular & for creating reusable components, Databricks, SQL
• Experience with Web site development, understanding of web site localization process
• Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies
• Ability to communicate all phases of UX design, from initial concept through detailed screen designs. Excellent interaction design skills. Experience designing for technical or expert users.
• Detail oriented & Critical thinker.
• Problem solver, empathetic and is user centric

Good to Have Skills

• Willingness to work on AI Applications
• Experience in Java, Python, Solr search, data bricks, RDS
• Experience GXP Search Engine/ Solr Search
• Experience in Postgres SQL, Mongo DB SQL database, vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS, Dynamo DB, S3
• Experience with LangChain or LlamaIndex framework for language models
• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning
• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with global teams.
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.