Friday, April 22, 2016

User-centric Design / Mobile Development Internship at St. Luke's University Health Network



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
 


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