Experienced Professionals

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a User Experience Designer (SC Cleared) to join our Digital Excellence practice. You will translate user needs into accessible, impactful solutions for public and private sector clients, working in a hybrid setup across London, Manchester, and Glasgow.

Travel to client sites may be required as projects demand. You will apply a broad toolkit (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Axure) and lead teams, collaborating with multi-disciplinary colleagues to deliver iterative,

Qualifications

• Grounding in user-centred design from concept to final delivery.
• Evidence of working with User Centred Design to synthesize insights and act on outcomes.
• Experience with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards and WCAG.

Responsibilities

• Identify and understand user needs; translate user stories into user-focused design approaches.
• Design accessible and impactful products and services for public and private sector clients.
• Lead and guide teams; collaborate across disciplines to deliver Agile projects.

Skills

User Centred Design

SC Clearance

GDS standards

WCAG

Figma

Prototyping

HTML/CSS/JS

Accessibility testing

JAWS

Accessibility certifications

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Adobe XD

Invision Studio

Axure

Job description

Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Your locationYour locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, London# User Experience Designer (SC Cleared) - Consultant / Senior Consultant - Digital Excellence##At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.## **YOUR ROLE**####Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector. Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations.## **As a User Experience Designer you will:*** Use different techniques to identify and understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches to meet these needs.* Design accessible and impactful products and services for some of our public and private sector clients.* Employ a wide range of skills, interviewing users, creating detailed plans, understanding and extrapolating data, facilitating workshops, presenting research findings and more* Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.* Apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design interactive prototypes, both products and services.* Understand and resolve design-centric disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.* Lead and guide teams, setting the pace, ensuring teams are delivering.* You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid Agile delivery.* Communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context and making complex and technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.##As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:* Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.* Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.* Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.## **YOUR PROFILE*** Grounding in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. Knowledge of which tools, process or methods to use and how to bring an agile delivery team along with you.* Evidence of Working with User Centred Design colleagues to synthesize insights and act on the outcomes.* You will already have SC (Security Check) Clearance.* Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles* Experience working with relevant accessibility standards and legislation, such as the Web Content Accessibility Regulations (WCAG)* Experience using a range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, Axure etc.* An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences.* Ability to present designs and justify decisions you’ve made using an evidence-based approach.* Proven ability to create high-quality, compelling design concepts and artefacts such as personas, service maps and wireframes.* Understanding of what good digital services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way.* Experienced in rapid paper and digital prototyping.* Ability to build prototypes using code to create dynamic prototypes using HTML, CSS and Javascript.* Ability to analyse code for accessibility issues in HTML and CSS* Certifications in accessibility (CPACC, WAS, CPWA) or working towards* Experience testing and auditing assistive technology (JAWS, Dragon, ZoomText) and accessibility features for Windows and macOS* You’ll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies.* Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array for different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client’s outcomes.* **Les Fontaines**: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed.* We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.* There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.Whilst you will have **London**, **Manchester or Glasgow** as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance. **In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.** More information is at available at:Experience levelExperienced ProfessionalsLocationGlasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, London