Salary : $4,770.00 - $8,589.00 Monthly
Location : Baton Rouge, LA
Job Type: Classified
Job Number: OTS 102326 ERG
Department: Division of Administration-Office of Technology Services
Opening Date: 10/23/2026
Closing Date: 11/6/2026 11:59 PM Central
About this Job
The Division of Administration/Office of Technology Services has a vacancy. This position is located in the Architecture, Standards & Platform Section. Req. 225725
This position is within the Office of Technology Services (OTS), Architecture, Standards & Platform and supports the statewide design practice. The incumbent partners with product and engineering teams to deliver accessible, user-centered designs and contributes to the State's design system and standards, ensuring consistent and usable experiences across services.
Minimum Qualifications
Five years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services; OR
Six years of full-time work experience in any field plus three years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services; OR
An associate's degree in information technology plus three years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services; OR
A bachelor's degree plus three years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services; OR
A bachelor's degree with twenty-four semester hours in an information technology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or business analytics field plus two years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services; OR
A master's degree plus two years of experience in information technology, project management, business analysis or administrative services.
EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:
Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any field.
NOTE:
A certification in an approved area may be substituted for the education and/or experience requirements at the time of hire or promotion, provided the appointment is made from a Certificate of Eligibles.
Job Specification
The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.
Job Duties and Other Information
Job Duties:
Performs design, usability and user experience functions for the section:
* Creates and edits wireframes and mockups that conform to accepted standards and procedures.
* Participates in project planning meetings, leads user interviews and usability studies to discuss and understand user needs with respect to applications being developed.
* Leads and participates in design and usability reviews of systems in development and production.
* Leads design reviews and design critiques to help ideate on user requirements and maintain standards across teams and projects.
* Leads fellow designers in troubleshooting user flow issues across projects.
* Conducts accessibility audits of systems.
Assists with the successful delivery of IT projects statewide:
* Leads usability testing and assists with user acceptance testing.
* Attends and participates in project meetings such as daily standups, planning and retrospectives, keeping project leadership informed of progress towards project goals.
* Assists in the preparation and creation of presentations and refinement of project documents to meet design and language standards.
* Assists in the creation of training assets.
Assists with the development of the section's document library and standards, including documents for design process, best practices, and guidance for internal teams and other OTS sections.
Researches and remains informed of OTS and industry standards with respect to design, usability, user experience and accessibility.
Performs all other tasks, special projects, analysis, studies, and plans as directed.
Position-Specific Details:
Appointment Type: This vacancy will be filled by new hire or by promotion of a current permanent status classified employee.
Career Progression: This vacancy participates in a career progression group and may be filled from this recruitment as a IT Statewide Analyst 1, 2 or 3.
Compensation: The Salary range listed on the job posting reflects the pay grade minimum and maximum for the IT Statewide Analyst 1 job title. The salary range pay grade minimum and maximum for the other levels of the career progression group can be viewed using the links below:
How To Apply:
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
*Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. The transcripts can be added as an attachment to your online application. The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire.
For further information about this posting, please contact:
Erica R. Gay
HR Specialist
Division of Administration/Office of Human Resources
Email:
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If you have completed twenty-four semester hours in information technology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or business analytics provide the qualifying courses include the course number, course title, credit hours, and college/university. Example: (BIOL 1001 - General Biology - 3 hrs - LSU)If you have not you can enter N/A.
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Describe your experience in an Agile environment (standups, sprint reviews, backlog refinement). How do you break design work into deliverable slices?
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Describe how you could increase productivity and quality for your role and juniors in an Agile environment?
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Describe how you mentor designers or front-end devs (critiques, pairing, accessibility coaching).
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Describe how you think about accessibility when you are thinking through UIs or UX flows.
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Please describe your experience with HTML & CSS. If you don't code, how do you ensure dev-ready fidelity?
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Which design tools do you use day to day (e.g., Figma, Tokens Studio, Storybook)? Include any plugins or token workflows.
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Describe your experience using or contributing to a design system (components, tokens, documentation). What did you add or improve, and why?
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Walk us through your handoff to engineering. What artifacts do you provide (specs, tokens, acceptance criteria), and how do you handle changes during build?
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Please link to portfolio work (case studies or prototypes).
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