Description
Role Overview:
Sopra Steria have an excellent opportunity for an experienced UX Designer to join our UK Design Team. Covering the full creative digital spectrum across projects, you'll be joining the government digital UX team to deliver focused, innovative solutions to a range of government clients along with supporting our wider portfolio of clients across the UK.
Joining the UX digital team in a senior position, you will have an entrepreneurial spirit, be resourceful, forward thinking and committed. Our digital people embrace these qualities and are passionate and positive even with the most complex issue to solve.
Key responsibilities:
- You'll be an expert in creating and crafting UX material based on research you have gathered and use it to consult with our clients, providing direction to a range of projects within Sopra's client portfolio.
- Working at the senior level, your role will also bring in aspects of team leadership, using your experience to inspire others and bring energy to new projects.
- You'll be working across all things UX, from groundwork research through to rapid prototypes
- UX research for multi-platform projects, optimizing user journeys and product interactions
- Manage multiple projects from prototype to launch in a fast paced environment
- Proactively look for opportunities for reuse, to adhere to style guides and uniformity within and across projects
- Participate in multi-disciplinary project teams, liaising between creative, technology and business teams
- Present and defend design deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
- Working in collaboration with passionate people in an open and creative environment
- Relaying project framework to the digital design team
- Providing inspiration and motivation to the UX team
- Promote design thinking and advocate design principles and best practices
- Mentor junior UX designers
Essential Skills
- 4+ years of industry experience and strong work samples which demonstrate your process and the finished project.
- Demonstrable knowledge, experience in and passion for user centred design practices for web, service or software development
- Bachelor's degree in interaction design, user research, human factors, HCI or related field is required
- Working knowledge of design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite
- Knowledge of using Axure and Balsamiq
- Experience introducing and establishing design thinking practices within an organisation
- Understanding of online usability analysis tools
- Examples of data gathered from usability analysis tools and tests
- Existing portfolio of work
- Experience of working in agile projects
- Self-motivated and directed
- Strong understanding of user centred design methodology
Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation.
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