Title: User-centric design / mobile development intern
Department: Information
Technology
Reports to: Director,
Innovation; Manager, Consumer Technology
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
How was your last visit to
the doctor? Did you find yourself asking why it wasn’t more high tech like
everything else in your life? Would you like to join us to create the digital
future of healthcare? This is largely uncharted territory, you’ll be expected
to challenge our ideas and champion your own.
Help us build and launch awesome digital products and enjoy a reward
that technology careers don’t often bring: the satisfaction of helping to save
lives.
This is a creative design
position that requires imaginative thinking around designing, developing, and
implementing new digital applications to meet our customers’ needs in a
challenging and rewarding healthcare environment. The digital experience intern
will help us craft and shape St. Luke’s portfolio of digital product
offerings. You will help us build
capabilities around UX design, product ownership, and co-development throughout
the whole product cycle - starting with product definition and design through
development, testing and deployment to finally drive adoption.
You will be focused on
designing and prototyping new and innovative stand-alone, web, and mobile
applications while enhancing existing systems. This position requires
imaginative and out-of-the-box thinking around designing and developing
problem-focused technology solutions and leveraging innovative development and
communication platforms in a challenging and rewarding healthcare and academic
innovation-driven environment. This
position needs to work efficiently and collaboratively within the group as an
agile team member and across the organization with System Engineering, Network
Engineering, Information Security, Process Improvement, Marketing, Hospital and
University Administration, and other teams.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
•
Rapidly
prototype and develop solutions that align with the digital experience strategy
for our leading consumer needs of the organization.
•
Leverages
experience in creating and implementing usability studies, personas, user flows,
wireframes, style guides, navigational structures, and affinity diagrams
•
Works
closely with patients, students, physicians, employees, faculty, researchers,
and other partners to translate their needs into applicable solutions.
•
Designs,
develops, and executes primary and secondary research in an academic and
healthcare environment to identify behaviors and needs.
•
Translates
behaviors and needs into insights that lead to implementation of real world
healthcare experiences.
•
Measures
the impact of the designed experiences to continuously evolve digital
experience strategy.
•
Creates
and standardizes digital assets that define baseline experience standards.
• Facilitate design communication across a
multidisciplinary team throughout each phase of a project
• Work closely with cross-functional staff
to deliver against project goals.
TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS:
• Knowledge of industry standard Web design
software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio or other wireframe software)
• Solid grasp of latest graphic and Web
design principles and aesthetics
• Solid understanding of current Web
technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Solid understanding of optimizing images,
the capabilities of Web browsers across multiple platforms, and the constraints
involved in designing for online media
• Prototypes digital mediums (both low and
high fidelity prototyping) to test and validate design concepts.
• Effectively manages client-specific
projects throughout the lifecycle, including developing schedules, timelines,
resource allocation, monitoring project progress, and project documentation.
• Helps facilitate stakeholder / client
workshops to build process / journey maps.
TECHNICAL SKILL SETS
•
Service
oriented architecture
•
Object
oriented design and implementation
•
Designing and
building Single Page Applications
•
C#.NET
or Java
•
RESTful
service development
•
HTML5,
CSS, “Mobile First,” Responsive Design, Javascript
•
Good
knowledge of JavaScript frameworks (Angular / Bootstrap / JQuery / Knockout)
•
Web
standards and best practices
•
GitHub,
or related source control repository
•
Familiarity
with test driven development and mocking frameworks
•
Experience
cloud technologies is a plus
•
Cross
Browser Compatibility
•
Adobe
Creative Suite: Photoshop Illustrator
•
Wire
framing & prototyping tools
•
Balsamiq
or similar tools
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
• Flexibility to rapidly learn other
languages as needed.
• Experience with mobile development
languages such as Objective-C, Swift, and mobile development platforms such as
Appcelerator, PhoneGap, Xamarin, etc.
• Experience with database design,
optimization, and techniques including triggers and stored procedures using
Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Strong JavaScript skills with extensive
use of frameworks and libraries.
• Must be able to keep current with new IT
security technology and policy developments and present options for improvement
as required
In a nutshell, we will want
you to:
• Be a great team member and have fun in an
agile team
• Develop smooth and pixel precise user
experiences
• Be smart, focus on code quality and
reusability; follow and contribute to best practices, standards and policies
• Discover new opportunities and create apps
for them; be proactive, follow recent advances in the mobile industry
INTERESTED CANDIDATES CONTACT
Erin Quick
IT Project
Coordinator
St. Luke’s
University Health Network
O: 484-526-8929
