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Step into a rewarding role in our 'Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology' (ADS&T) division. As a UX Consultant, you'll stay challenged, providing key clients with day-to-day advice and working closely with a wide variety of Users and stakeholders across interesting and engaging projects. You'll be trusted to advise, ideate, innovate, research and design next generational solutions and develop client recommendations.
Your purpose:
As a UX Consultant, working within our Technology Solutions Practice, you'll be on the front lines: embedded in client projects to improve the delivery of emerging technology and solving business and user problems via technology development. Working closely with Users, Stakeholders and Scrum Development teams, you will be instrumental to the research, design and delivery of digital experiences to our prestigious clients; working with their end-user and customer communities to gather insights, produce prototypes and gather feedback on designs.
In this position, you'll collaborate with various disciplines within the Technology Solutions practice to develop innovative solutions that fulfill users' needs and bring delight to customers and clients. This will involve you championing and advocating User Centric/Human Centric approaches, working to ensure that solutions and functionality are based around valid User Needs. You'll work in Agile/Scrum environments where you will lead and facilitate workshops and research sessions, to understand User’s pain points, journeys and needs; before translating requirements into solutions using wireframes, prototypes and generating User Stories/Functional specifications working closely with developers.
What you can bring?
Essential:
- Applying a user-centric design approach to digital and software projects, engaging closely with end users and stakeholders.
- Experience in Agile or Scrum development environments.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to make compelling and clear design presentations.
- Ability to lead collaborative co-creation and ideation sessions with multiple stakeholders.
- Employing hypothesis-driven design methods.
- Proficiently generating high-quality UX deliverables such as personas, journey maps, blueprints, and information architecture.
- Demonstrating expertise in designing inclusive and accessible digital interfaces.
- Establishing success metrics for digital products.
- Support teams to put the user at the centre of decision making
- Producing wireframes, interactive prototypes, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and interactive prototypes utilising appropriate software tools (such as Figma, FigJam, DevOps, Mural).
- Establishing success metrics for digital products.
- Planning and leading user research sessions to gather insights and requirements, effectively communicating findings to client stakeholders through compelling narratives.
- Collaborating effectively within multi-disciplinary teams and engaging with end users to comprehend, research, and design digital solutions.
- Be able to work with stakeholders to produce accessible solutions to problems.
Desirable:
- Experience in designing services that comply with the GDS (Government Service Standard).
- Experience of working in complex policy or service environment and applying strategic user-centred approaches to end-to-end design
- Relevant qualifications or certifications in UCD.
- Previous consulting experience: a track record in client engagement and delivery.
Why work for AtkinsRéalis?
People join us because they share a desire to be at the forefront of the ADS&T Business Unit and deliver outstanding projects. We empower our people to be the professional individuals they want to be, working on projects they feel proud of, making a difference to the world they live in and the legacy they leave behind.
We value diversity and believe that everyone deserves to thrive, without exception. We have signed the MoD's "Women in Defence" and "Women in Aviation and Aerospace" charters. These pledges include providing opportunities for women to succeed at all levels. We're also committed to being a Military friendly employer and have been recognised with the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Gold Employer Recognition Award.
We develop individuals through a portfolio of training and development courses designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. We encourage participation in all forms of training and have an active programme of in-house as well as external training for all our staff.
Meeting your needs:
When you start with us, you'll enjoy "Total Reward", a package that can be tailored to your lifestyle, career and personal needs. From flexible holidays to life assurance, health & wellbeing benefits, and career planning for the senior stage of your career.
Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview. And let's talk about any adjustments you might need.
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More about us:
AtkinsRéalis, is a top global consultancy with over 100 years of design and engineering expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills, knowledge and support to help you succeed. Together, we can deliver projects which have a positive, sustainable impact on the world.
AtkinsRéalis, is where UK professionals want to work and stay once they join. We're also a Silver Rating holder in the Aerospace & Defence sector, as per the Financial Times rating of the UK’s leading management consultants.
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Additional Information:
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
