User Interface Technology Strategist

**Career Area**:
Engineering

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**Role Definition**
Defines User Interface needs for businesses; provides technical leadership on complex solutions for User Interface software development, testing and validation processes.

**Responsibilities**
- Participating in the processes of test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of User Interface software.
- Consulting on the integration issues of User Interface software with existing infrastructure components and products.
- Leading in design, implementation, testing and release of software for User Interfaces.

**Required Skills and Experience**
- Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering or Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.
- Extensive prior experience in related field

**Skill Description**:
**Communicating Complex Concepts**: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Uses subtle cues to determine the language and experience level of an individual or group.
- Introduces technical terminology to listeners in the context of the product or service.
- Uses effective analogies to help an audience understand a novel feature of a product or service.
- Explains important details as they relate to the basic value of the product or service.
- Approaches communication challenges from various angles to find the one that works.
- Proceeds to next level of information when audience is ready.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
- Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
- Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
- Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
- Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
- Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
- Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Directs strategic alliances and partnerships for mutual benefit.
- Makes sound business decisions on behalf of the group when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
- Builds the strategic thinking capability of the group.
- Interprets available data and analyses when creating business plans.
- Recommends ways to position the organization for long-term competitiveness.
- Prepares the group's response to key marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities.

**Influencing Through Expertise**: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organi