[Sigia-l] Job: Info Architect at MITRE in Bedford, MA or McLean, VA

[Groenwoldt, Kristina Kennedy]

Content Management Service within the Corporate Information and
Technology Center
 

INFORMATION ARCHITECT (REQ. #8916BR) 

Location/Department:
Bedford, MA OR McLean, VA; Dept. R305 - Information Technology

 
Key Functions:

- Provide information architecture expertise in the integration of
information across systems.
- Apply information architecture to the design of intranet applications
and intranet web sites  including the intranet homepage.
- Design enterprise-level and within-site navigation that meets user
and business  requirements.
- Collaborate with product managers and development teams to negotiate
design feasibility.  Partner with usability team on research and
assessment activities, and to devise improvements  based on usability
findings. Provide project teams with recommendations for practical
trade-offs that get usable, well-designed products up and running.
- Document design intent clearly for both business and technical
audiences, using site maps,  wireframes, and interaction flow diagrams
with appropriate functional and behavioral  annotations.
- Conduct user interviews; collect, analyze, and summarize
metrics/usage data; leverage  results of data analysis to inform design
decisions.
- Contribute to the development of enterprise standards, models, and
guidelines including  metadata architecture and methods for
classification (e.g., taxonomies, ontologies, tagging,  etc.). Consider
ways to leverage current technologies (e.g., web services, RSS, etc.)
to  integrate intranet content and gain efficiency.


Required Education/Experience:

BS or equivalent and 1 year related experience or MS or equivalent
 

Desired Education/Experience:

- Minimum 5 years current, demonstrable experience in designing
information architectures for  complex systems. Some experience
designing for corporate intranets is preferred.
- Minimum BS/BA degree required (MA/MS preferred), with
multidisciplinary backgrounds such as  Psychology, Computer Science,
Information Science, Library Science, Information Systems, Human
Factors, User Interface Design, or equivalent experience in related
disciplines.

 

Required Skills:

- Experience applying information architecture and user-centered design
techniques (such as  interviews, card sorts, and usability tests), and
using the data collected to produce  prototypes, use cases, task flows,
site maps, etc. for large, complex web sites
- Experience architecting enterprise navigation 
- Working knowledge of Visio, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office
applications required.  Familiarity with HTML and CSS capabilities and
constraints required. Direct experience with  HTML, DHTML, XML, Java,
Dreamweaver, and Macromedia Director a plus.

 

Desired Skills:

- Experience designing user interfaces, creating navigation structures,
and integrating web  content in an intranet environment including
experience with portals, directory services,  collaborative
applications, and search systems (including relevancy ranking,
categorization,  and tagging of content for greater precision in
retrieval)
- Experience with enterprise information architecture, considering
strategic information  requirements and integrated content delivery
- Understanding of basics of systems/software engineering practices,
usability principles,  requirements development, and testing principles
- Project management skills; demonstrated experience in managing
projects that require  defining goals, tasking others, and meeting
scheduled milestones
- Understanding of information management standards and best practices,
particularly in areas  of web site structures, content 
management systems, metadata, and lifecycle management
- Business process analysis skills, including ability to analyze work
processes and recommend  changes to leverage technologies and gain
efficiency
- Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication and presentation
skills
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines,
prioritize, and work on  multiple projects simultaneously with great
efficiency and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and process-oriented problem-solving skills 
- Ability to function successfully in a collaborative, cross-functional
team environment and  influence team members without 
formal authority
 

Travel Statement:

*This position will require overnight travel up to 10 % of the time.
 

Clearance Statement:

*Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government
security investigation  and must meet eligibility requirements for
access to classified information. Only US citizens  are eligible for a
security clearance. For this position, MITRE will consider only
applicants  with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for
security clearances.
 

How to apply:

Visit the MITRE website located at www.mitre.org.  Click on
"Employment" in top banner of page  and then click on "Search Jobs" on
left side of screen.  Next, click on "Search Openings" and  enter
requisition #8916 to apply for this position.


MITRE, a 2007 Fortune 100 'Best Companies to Work For' company is
seeking someone to lead the  Content Management Service within the
Corporate Information and Technology Center