Sr. UI Architect

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Sr. UI Architect

IronPort® Systems, Inc. is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.

Responsibilities:

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for the appliance group of products, including the Email and Web Security Appliances. We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in defining code architecture, technical leadership, driving UI agenda, and re-factoring legacy code to improve product efficiency and performance. This individual will be expected to collaborate with product management to help identify and prioritize product requirements; work closely with design consultants to design new features and improve existing functionality and behavioral paradigms; and organize, participate in, and ensure the success of the ongoing development activities for the products’ CLI and web based GUI.

Key responsibilities include:
• Define UI architecture and roadmap
• Drive UI agenda through Platform Development Managers
• Establish UI development standards and guidelines
• Reviewing technical specifications written by UI developers
• Task level planning and management of project deliverables
• Ownership of the quality of all code written by UI developers

Required Experience and Skills:
• 10-15 years of industry experience with 8-10 years programming experience preferably in one or more of these scripting languages: Python, PHP, Perl, ASP.NET, Ruby, etc. (Python highly preferred.)
• Strong XHTML, CSS2, and JavaScript skills with practical experience required.
• Demonstrated success in the development and deployment of enterprise application GUI.
• strong attention to detail and exceptional organization, logic, and analytical skills
• Communicate effectively throughout all phases of the life cycle with product management, software development, technical documentation and QA
• Demonstrated ability to ask appropriate questions, communicate effectively and persuasively convey design solutions to a broad range of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, interaction designers, and customers

Desired Experience and Skills:
• Experience developing thin-client, browser-based, commercial appliance, server application administration, or consumer-oriented user interfaces. Experience developing commercial or corporate intranet applications is also a plus.
• An understanding of Internet and email standards, UNIX system administration, enterprise networking topologies and security is highly desirable.
• Specific experience with open source mail, spam detection programs, caching web proxies, anti-spyware, anti-virus and integration of database technology to customer systems a definite plus.
• Experience collaborating with offshore development resources is a plus.
• The ideal candidate will also have strong visual design skills.

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For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.