Junior Creative Technologist - Centre for Innovation

Job description

JUNIOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

Centre for Innovation, Dublin 2

Fjord has joined forces with the Centre for Innovation. This is the new home for experimentation, co-creation and experiential design, and an exciting opportunity to put design doing at the heart of innovation.

Who are we?

We are designers, ukulele players, doctors and dancers. We are doing things that matter for lives, cities and robots. We are building a work environment where people are happy, productive and collaborative.

Who are you?

You are a kick-ass Junior Creative Technologist ready to join a fast-paced, growing innovation centre. You will operate across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time. You will thrive in an open and interactive working environment, which facilitates collaboration with colleagues, clients and ecosystem partners. Our experimentation culture, combined with a disruptive brief, will ensure that together we will make it count.

What You'll Be Doing

Creative Technology is a critical function that helps to bring life to our design work, as quickly and tangibly as possible, with an early understanding on feasibility and technical implications. You will support prototyping as an integral step in the process of conceptualizing, refining and finalizing a designed service or product. You are a craftsperson, capable of a two-way creative coding approach alongside other designer roles. Pair programming and pair design is the philosophy so cross-disciplinary understanding is essential. Working with evolving requirements and offering communication on functional suggestions to design is a responsibility of the creative technologists we require. You have pride in the quality of your code and are vocal in championing the best approaches, but also appreciate the need to think creatively. As a Junior Creative Technologist you will;

· Responsible for the quality and robustness of technical deliverables on each project.

· Be a hands-on technology resource, shaping the concept and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms.

· Be an active member of the design team, contributing to every phase of the project with prototyping, technical innovation, validation, and turning prototypes into reality.

· Have an inquisitive interest in the latest development techniques and libraries. Experience of constructing and developing on a technology stack that meets the needs of rapid prototyping, whilst also serving as the foundation for future development.

· Demonstrate the value of prototyping as an integral and regular step in the design process of conceptualizing, refining, and finalizing an inventive solution, service or product.

· Be comfortable with driving innovation from a technical point of view, pushing the boundaries of complex services and solutions that are simple, relevant, and human centered.

· Keep up to speed with new technology market trends.

· Develop rich, fluid, and polished experiences that will showcase industry-leading design.

· Be an expert on emerging technology & trends, and help others understand potential pitfalls and opportunities.

· Develop functional pilots to test in market and gather insights.

Other Requirements;

· Seek out opportunities for self-development.

· Effectively manage administration such as time reporting, expense submission etc.

· Engage with and work within changing multi-disciplinary teams.

· Develop and maintain open honest and trusting relationships.

· Continually strive to exceed client expectations.

· Communicate in a clear, consistent and transparent manner.

· Comply with Health and Safety policies and procedures.

· Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of equipment & materials provided.

Desired profile

Skills And Qualifications

· 2 + years relevant industry experience.

· In possession of a relevant degree or professional qualification(s).

· Strong knowledge and experience in a relevant software engineering or web design discipline.

· Some experience creating prototypes for platforms such as wearables, mobile, web, and TV.

· Experience of rapid prototyping, agile development methodologies.

· Ability to combine multiple technologies into a solution, learning as you go to integrate new pieces into the solution.

· Demonstrate knowledge in 3 or more of the following areas:

· Native and wearable app development with complex APIs and 3rd party SDKs

· Full stack web development

· Relational and/or NoSQL database development

· Data analysis, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch

· Mobile hardware integration such as BLE, accessory port, ADK

· Hardware prototyping using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and developing hardware/software solutions

· VR, AR, Kinect, NUI, or machine vision technologies.

Please note, as part of all Designer recruitment processes, we require a portfolio of your relevant work.

Please be sure to include a link to an online or downloadable portfolio on your CV, or, be sure to attach an additional document with a portfolio of your work, as part of your online application for this role.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. The Centre for Innovation is a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, leading the global innovation programme at Accenture.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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