UX Consultant - Home Affairs & Law Enforcement

BAE Systems; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense technology company is seeking a UX Consultant for its team in the UK. This role focuses on leading UX design initiatives, managing stakeholder relations, and conducting user research. The position supports flexible working arrangements and emphasizes diversity and inclusion. Ideal candidates will have strong UX knowledge and a passion for user-centered design.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of best practices and methodologies in UX design.
• Ability to lead and analyze usability testing and stakeholder interviews.
• Adept at collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert knowledge in UX and UI design principles.
• Manage stakeholder relations and UX direction.
• Present design solutions to clients based on research.

Skills

Lead UX Design initiatives

Usability testing

User-centered design methods

Mentoring of junior staff

Conduct qualitative research

Conduct quantitative research

Job description

Location(s):

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: UX Consultant
Location: London or Leeds
Grade: GG09 - GG11

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements –please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

What You’ll Be Doing:

With a strong understanding of best practices and methodologies, User ExperienceDesigners are the primary end-user advocates who produce online experiences thatengage even the most discerning audiences. They are research, data and designenthusiasts who create engaging and useful digital products and services to serve awide variety of online experiences.

The User Experience Designer provides cross-functional teams and clients’ expert knowledge and skills in UX and UI designprinciples and methodologies, acting as a subject matter expert and evangelist forDigital Experience excellence.

Skills & Experience

• Lead UX Design initiatives, managing stakeholder relations and providing strategic and UX direction
• Lead and analyse usability testing, stakeholder interviews, and other user-centered design methods.
• Present design solutions to clients, backed by research and best practices.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, conduct knowledge sharing and the mentoring of junior staff.
• Identify opportunities to improve the user experience and deliver business value.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research to develop personas, user journeys, and experience maps.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.