Senior UX/UI Designer

PA Consulting Services Ltd; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Budget for courses and certifications

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer to craft practical, usable interfaces and flows that move products from 0 to 1 and beyond. You’ll sit at the heart of multidisciplinary delivery teams and also contribute as an individual designer embedded with a client, while staying connected to our Design discipline and the wider Digital & Data community.

You’ll adapt to different contexts—from shaping product UI for global brands to visualising journeys for UK services clients—always focused

Qualifications

• Hands-on senior UX/UI practitioner with shipped product experience.
• Strong ability to balance best practices with constraints and timelines.
• Excellent communicate design decisions clearly to diverse audiences.
• Curious and experimental with AI-enabled design workflows.
• Collaborative and energized by multidisciplinary delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design user journeys, flows, wireframes, prototypes and UI for web and mobile.
• Turn concepts into production-ready designs, iterating on evidence and best practices.
• Work at pace in agile dual-track cycles with flexible scope and fidelity.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and other designers for quick decisions.
• Contribute to and maintain design systems with consistent, accessible patterns.
• Apply AI tools to speed ideation, auditing, documentation and analysis.
• Lead client workshops, whiteboarding and design reviews, presenting decisions clearly.

Skills

Senior UX/UI design

Shipped product experience

AI-enabled design workflows

Collaborative multidisciplinary

Design systems

Fast-paced agile environments

Client-facing

Tools

Figma

Copilot

ChatGPT

Claude

Miro

Job description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.

Why consider joining our Digital & Data community?

Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.

Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.

Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same

Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring

Deepen your expertise through our a culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications.

About the role

As a Senior UX/UI Designer at PA Consulting, you’ll design practical, usable interfaces and flows that move products from 0 --> 1 and beyond. You’ll sometimes sit at the heart of multidisciplinary delivery teams and sometimes contribute as an individual designer embedded with a client—all while staying connected to our Design discipline and the wider Digital & Data community.

You’ll flex to different contexts—one week shaping product UI for a global consumer brand, the next helping visualise journeys for a UK services client—always focused on real outcomes and pragmatic craft-proud delivery.

What you’ll do

• Design user journeys, flows, wireframes, prototypes (manually and using Figma Make, or similar generative platforms) and UI that support shipping working software across web and mobile
• Take concepts from concept to production‑ready designs and iterate based on evidence or judgement and market‑leading best practices
• Work at pace in agile dual‑track cycles (discovery and delivery), adapting scope and fidelity as needed to meet the goals of both projects, organisations and users alike
• Often partner with engineering, product and other designers to make practical decisions quickly both on and off projects
• Contribute to and use design systems; keep patterns consistent and accessible.
• Apply AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Miro, ChatGPT, Claude, agentic workflows, and other generative tooling) to speed ideation, auditing, documentation and analysis
• Facilitate client workshops, whiteboarding and design reviews, present decisions clearly

Qualifications

Who you are

• A hands‑on Senior UX/UI practitioner with shipped product experience
• Comfortable balancing best practice with technical constraints and timelines
• Clear and concise when explaining design decisions to any audience
• Curious and experimental with AI‑enabled design workflows
• A constructive challenger who can reframe problems and propose workable options
• Collaborative, adaptable and energised by multidisciplinary delivery

How you operate

• Break down ambiguity into concrete steps; keep momentum without losing quality
• Use AI intentionally to explore options faster and document decisions — never as a crutch
• Share early, invite critique, and iterate with evidenceSwitch fluidly between team‑based delivery and individual contributor setups
• Stay pragmatic: focus on value, feasibility and the next right increment
• Fun, creative, energetic and contagiously optimistic

Why this role may not be the right fit

• If you prefer a one‑size‑fits‑all process or fixed toolkit for every problem
• If you’re uncomfortable with client‑facing work, facilitation and (sometimes) frequently changing contexts
• If you want long‑term, single‑product stability over varied, time‑boxed consulting engagements
• If you avoid feedback loops or aren’t comfortable sharing work early
• If you’re not open to using AI in your workflow or to actively learning, applying and sharing new tools
• If you need strict role boundaries and don’t want to flex to adjacent design activities