UI UX Designer

Job description

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. Please visit our website here for more information.

About Investment Bank – Global Information Security

Global Information Security is a fully global team, with over 800 colleagues across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. We support the business in ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of the firm's information assets, and in implementing world-class security solutions to meet business needs. Global Information Security operates critical controls and works in partnership with the business to ensure our customers can trust Barclays to protect their sensitive information, and that the security of our critical infrastructure, staff, and assets is maintained.

About Identity & Access Management

Identity & Access Management is a centralized technology service that covers GIS security solutions (people, processes, technologies) used to establish, enhance or facilitate application security controls. It includes the following solutions:

· Access Identity Management (AIM/Request)

· Password Management

· Single Sign-On (SSO)

· Federation Services

· Entitlement Management

· Logical Access Management Remediation (LAM-R)

· Strategic Logical Access Management (SLAM)

· Strategic External Authentication (SEA)

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

Overall purpose of role

This role is composed of following:

· Design and deliver compelling, elegant, pleasurable and sophisticated end-to-end user experience solutions for multiple products and platforms, from assessing and defining customer needs to delivering concepts, to prioritizing features, to presenting and evaluating prototypes, to validating user experience feedback.

· Quickly and iteratively create artefacts that illuminate user tasks, define proposed product functionality, turn business requirements into conceptualizations of the proposed product, and effectively communicate the overall user experience to the project team and our business partners.

· Gather and track feedback and key design decisions generated from continuous review of these artefacts to iteratively improve the user experience with interactive products.

· Maintain knowledge of current and emerging design principles and best practices in user interface design, interaction design, information architecture, usability theory, and evaluation techniques.

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Key Accountabilities

Main Duties:

• Design and deliver compelling, elegant, pleasurable and sophisticated end-to-end user experience solutions for multiple products and platforms, from assessing and defining customer needs to delivering concepts, to prioritizing features, to presenting and evaluating prototypes, to validating user experience feedback.

• Work closely and efficiently with a cross-functional and interdisciplinary team that includes other Designers, Developers, Project and Product Management, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, and Business Partners among other team members.

• Develop expert-level knowledge of competitive and complementary products for the purpose of bringing new design ideas to each project. Recognize and communicate user experience risks as they arise and make design recommendations that take into account trade-offs, scope creep, iterative design, phased releases.

• Quickly and iteratively create artefacts that illuminate user tasks, define proposed product functionality, turn business requirements into conceptualizations of the proposed product, and effectively communicate the overall user experience to the project team and our business partners. Gather and track feedback and key design decisions generated from continuous review of these artefacts to iteratively improve the user experience with interactive products.

• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging design principles and best practices in user interface design, interaction design, information architecture, usability theory, and evaluation techniques.

Role Details:

• Experience working as a User Experience Designer, Interaction Designer, Information Architect (or closely related field) in the design of websites, web applications, desktop, and/or mobile applications.

• A critical eye for clean visual designs. Practical knowledge of user research methods, including lab-based usability studies, field studies, and usability inspections (heuristic evaluations or cognitive walkthroughs)

• Deep understanding of UX principles and best practices, and the latest trends in design and user experience along with knowledge of related disciplines such as information architecture, interaction design and end user research.

• Communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.

• Expertise in comparing, contrasting, and prioritizing among alternative approaches to meeting design objectives, and using judgment to suggest solutions to design problems that optimize among customer needs, business constraints, and technological realities.

• Analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of user behaviour.

• A general understanding of how Design impacts Development (and vice versa), along with a knack for constructing dynamic, interactive designs that are technically feasible/prudent

• A strong awareness of common Usability methods and principles

• A lucid sense for how individual components and features impact their larger applications, and how to optimize accordingly

• Using a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Visio/Omni Graffle, and Axure.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

NA

Decision-making and Problem Solving

This role requires a strong problem solving skills to proactively contribute to short and long term solutions.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Person Specification

· Good experience of prototyping and mock up designs and past experience on designing web based applications

· Using a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Axure, Balsamiq

· Excellent oral communication and inter-personal skills.

· Ability to multi-task, ability to think laterally and to have input to / propose detailed, complex solutions to technical issues.

· Must be a good team player and able to work alone or with others

· Self-starter and highly motivated.

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Purpose and Values

Barclays has a single cross-business Purpose for Barclays and five core Values which underpin it.

Our Purpose is helping people achieve their ambitions in the right way. Put simply this is the answer to the question ‘What is Barclays for?' and it should guide our every action as employees.

Respect

We respect and value those we work with, and the contribution that they make.

Integrity

We act fairly, ethically and openly in all we do.

Service

We put our clients and customers at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We use our energy, skills and resources to deliver the best, sustainable results.

Stewardship

We are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.