UX/UI designer in fintech

Delta Capita; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Capita is seeking a seasoned Lead UX/UI Designer for a six-month maternity cover in our London office. You will own complex product interfaces, drive design systems, and collaborate with product and engineering to ship high-quality experiences.

In this role you will mentor junior designers, run workshops, and champion accessibility, ensuring WCAG 2.2 AA conformance across all workstreams while maintaining design consistency and delivering at pace.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a lead UX/UI designer with ownership of complex, large-scale digital products.
• Advanced working knowledge of Sketch, including symbols, libraries and shared styles.
• Strong prototyping ability to create interactive prototypes quickly.
• Demonstrable experience mentoring or line-managing junior designers.
• Confident collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders and clients where relevant.
• Evidence of delivering high-quality work at pace in an agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills to explain and defend design decisions to non-designers.
• Right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available for this fixed-term role.

Responsibilities

• Own complex projects end to end.
• Take full design accountability for one or more product workstreams from discovery through wireframes, prototypes and final UI specification.
• Design and prototype.
• Produce interactive prototypes in Sketch to test flows and validate concepts with users.
• Run and facilitate workshops.
• Drive strategic alignment across teams and features.
• Maintain and evolve the design system.
• Extend our component library and design standards for consistency and reusability.
• Support junior designers and set direction through reviews and critique sessions.
• Partner with product and engineering to ensure designs are implementable and meet requirements.
• Work closely with product managers to shape requirements and with developers to ensure faithful implementation.
• Deliver at pace and prioritize to keep momentum across parallel workstreams.
• Uphold accessibility and quality, ensuring WCAG 2.2 AA standards.

Skills

Lead UX/UI design

Sketch advanced

Prototyping

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile delivery

Accessibility (WCAG)

Tools

Sketch

Job description

Описание

Delta Capita is a global provider of managed services, technology and consulting to the financial services industry. Design sits at the centre of how we build our products. Our team shapes the interfaces our clients and their customers use every day. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Lead UX/UI Designer to cover a 6-month period of maternity leave, starting November 2026 and based in our London office.

Задачи

• Own complex projects end to end.


• Take full design accountability for one or more product workstreams, from early discovery through wireframes, prototypes and final UI specification.


• Design and prototype.


• Produce interactive prototypes in Sketch to test flows, validate concepts with users and align stakeholders before build.


• Run and facilitate workshops.


• Across teams and features, driving strategic alignment.


• Maintain and evolve the design system.


• Extend our component library and design standards so that work across the team stays consistent, accessible and reusable.


• Support junior designers.


• Set direction, review work, run critique sessions and support the day-to-day development of junior members of the design team.


• Partner with product and engineering.


• Work closely with product managers to shape requirements, and with developers to ensure designs are implemented faithfully and are technically feasible.


• Deliver at pace.


• Prioritise, break large problems into shippable increments and keep momentum across parallel workstreams.


• Uphold accessibility and quality.


• Ensure designs meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards and our internal quality bar before handover.

Требования

• Proven track record as a lead UX/UI designer, with a portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex, large-scale digital products.


• Advanced working knowledge of Sketch, including symbols, libraries and shared styles.


• Strong prototyping ability - you can move from a rough concept to a testable interactive prototype quickly.


• Demonstrable experience mentoring or line-managing junior designers.


• Confident collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders and, where relevant, clients.


• Evidence of delivering high-quality work at pace in an agile environment.


• Excellent communication skills - you can explain and defend design decisions to non-designers.


• Right to work in the UK (we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this fixed-term role).


• Будет плюсом: Previous experience designing for fintech, banking or another regulated financial services environment; Familiarity with Sketch; Exposure to enterprise or B2B products with dense interfaces and complex workflows; Experience running user research and usability testing directly

Условия

Fixed-term contract 6 months (maternity cover) This is a 6 months fixed term position based in London.