Senior UX Designer

Snc-Lavalin; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in the United Kingdom seeks a UX Design subject matter expert to lead UX strategy across bids, proposals, and projects. You will guide interaction design, information architecture, service design, accessibility, and design systems, shaping solutions for clients.

You will mentor multidisciplinary teams, manage client relationships, ensure accessibility and usability, and promote user-centered design practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Expertise in creating high-quality UX artefacts, roadmaps, and plans using a range of design tools.
• Expertise in assessing user experience and design needs across complex products and services.
• Experience owning and improving experience quality metrics (usability, accessibility, satisfaction).
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Advocacy for users and driving meaningful digital and service design changes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide UX guidance across the full design lifecycle (interaction design, IA, service design, accessibility).
• Shape UX approaches and experience visions for bids and proposals to meet internal and external demand.
• Promote UCD and UX capabilities across projects, clients, and AtkinsRéalis teams.
• Manage client relationships and provide regular progress updates, addressing inquiries and risks.
• Provide design assurance ensuring usability, accessibility, and alignment with business objectives.
• Lead and coach multidisciplinary teams, fostering UCD thinking and mentorship.

Skills

UX artefacts

User-centered design

Accessibility

Design systems

Stakeholder comms

GDS experience

Data synthesis

Team leadership

Job description

Job Description Overview

Job Description Overview You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally. We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life.

Your role UX Design subject matter expertise: Able to break down complex design problems and provide UX design and user-centered design guidance across the full design lifecycle, including interaction design, information architecture, service design, accessibility, and design systems, both internally and to our customers.

Shape UX contributions to bids and proposals: Lead and support proposal development by shaping UX approaches, design strategies, and experience visions that respond to both internal and external customer demand.

Contribute to increased awareness of, engagement with, and adoption of user-centered design (UCD) and UX capabilities across AtkinsRéalis, projects and clients.

Manage client relationships: Maintain positive relationships with internal and external customers, understanding their needs and ensuring they are met through high-quality outcomes. Provide regular updates on design progress, risks, and dependencies, and respond proactively to customer enquiries and concerns.

Design assurance: Provide assurance to new UX and service designs, ensuring they meet user needs, accessibility standards, and business objectives. Undertake reviews and assurance of existing experiences, journeys, and design practices to identify usability, consistency, and experience risks.

Technical and team leadership: Lead and support multidisciplinary teams including designers, researchers, developers, and client stakeholders. Provide coaching, mentoring and UCD thinking within your project and teams.

About you

• Expertise in creating high-quality UX artefacts, roadmaps, and plans, including experience strategies, service blueprints, user journeys, interaction prototypes, and design system contributions using a range of design tools, with the ability to track progress and communicate design decisions to stakeholders.
• Expertise in assessing user experience and design needs across complex products and services, providing guidance across the product lifecycle and ensuring experiences are designed and delivered in alignment with user needs, accessibility standards, and business goals.
• Experience owning and improving experience quality metrics, such as usability findings, accessibility compliance, customer satisfaction, or behavioural insights, identifying experience issues and driving design improvements through iterative solutions.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards, including WCAG, inclusive design practices, and familiarity with design systems and component-based design approaches.
• With a good mix of Articulate, with a passion for advocating for users and driving meaningful digital and service design change.
• Strategic enterprise and business awareness; able to understand client objectives and translate them into coherent, usable, and scalable UX design solutions.
• Ability to analyse, structure, and synthesise qualitative and quantitative data to inform strong design decisions and ensure consistency, usability, and maintainability.
• Experience in Government Digital Service (GDS) projects, supporting teams through Alpha and Beta assessments.
• Competent soft skills, including effective stakeholder communication, collaboration, diversity and equality, and a people-first mindset.

Rewards & benefits

• Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.
• Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Equal Opportunities and Diverse Hiring

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Security Clearance

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.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.