Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Create user flows, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. Design accessible, visually appealing UI elements. Conduct user research and usability testing. Collaborate with product managers and developers. Maintain design systems and style guides. Gather user feedback to improve product usability and ensure brand consistency across digital touchpoints.

Lead and execute complex IT programs using established project management methodologies and ensure SDLC compliance. Develop project plans, schedules, budgets, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies; validate requirements; communicate with sponsors, clients, vendors, and leadership; provide direction to project managers; manage pre/post implementation activities; recommend operational and application solutions; coach and mentor team members.

Develop and maintain user-facing and internal product documentation including user guides, integration guides, installation/configuration instructions, and release notes. Research, write, edit, and update content for technical and non-technical audiences, test products for documentation accuracy, track deliverables via ticketing systems, and collaborate with Development, Engineering, QA, Product, Marketing, and Customer Enablement teams.

Design, implement, administer, and optimize large-scale Hadoop clusters (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce). Monitor, secure, troubleshoot, automate provisioning, and implement backup/disaster recovery. Collaborate with data engineers/scientists, implement ETL/streaming pipelines, and document configurations and best practices.

Create user flows, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. Design accessible, visually appealing UI components. Conduct user research and usability testing, maintain design systems, collaborate with product and engineering, and iterate based on user feedback.

Design and implement GCP architectures, lead cloud foundation builds and on-premises to GCP migrations, implement Vertex AI solutions, mentor engineers, ensure security/compliance, troubleshoot infrastructure, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable cloud solutions.

Architect and implement scalable, secure microservices and headless commerce solutions. Design composable frontend architectures, define API-first integrations, lead third-party integrations (GTM, Adobe Analytics, payments, CDPs), enforce security best practices, and collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD and cloud deployments.

Plan, design, and run qualitative and quantitative user research (usability tests, interviews, surveys, field/diary studies). Synthesize findings into actionable insights, collaborate with product, design, and data teams, and advocate for user-centered decisions across the product lifecycle.

Design and develop Big Data applications using Java, Spark, and MapReduce on Cloudera/Hadoop ecosystems. Work with Hive, Impala, YARN, Kafka, and large datasets; write tests (JUnit), perform data analysis, and script in Unix/Python. Lead and manage global technology teams and follow industry best practices.

Design and architect end-to-end, scalable solutions for financial and investment systems using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud (AWS/Azure), data platforms, and observability. Provide technical leadership, define SLIs/SLOs, guide implementation (containers, Kubernetes, Azure AD auth), and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and security.