Senior User Experience Specialist

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation's Security. Together.
Salary:
£42,00 - £52,000
Role clearance type : You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance
Location:
Manchester, United Kingdom
About Your Opportunity:
This role supports the ever increasing need to protect our national security through development of software applications in an Agile environment to collect data, analyse it and allow our customers to make information aware decisions. We have a number of positions for UX designers who have relevant security clearances, or are eligible to undergo checks for security clearance.
Your Benefits:
Flexible working schedules
- we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements and full time and part time roles. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
Flexible Benefits Package
- choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
Employee Incentive Programme
- exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
Career Development
- opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities
Your Responsibilities:
Design user centred journeys across digital applications that focus on user needs
Conceptualising, iterating and ideating digital experience designs within a multi-disciplinary team of stakeholders, business analysts, developers, UX specialists and visual designers
Testing your design and journeys with varied and inclusive user groups so that you can validate your ideas and discover improvements through an iterative process
Be part of a great team and engage in knowledge sharing and collaboration on a routine basis by attending weekly design forums and workshops
Presenting to stakeholders in multi-team project demonstrations
Promoting UX standards and practices across the wider business as well as contributing to the internal UX community
Your Experience:
A varied portfolio that demonstrates the quality of your design thinking and research/testing methods
Capable of understanding business/stakeholder needs as well as user needs
Good communication skills used to present ideas and feedback to help the team understand the user perspective
A solid understanding of UX practices within software development
A good understanding of accessibility (WCAG 2.1) and inclusive design techniques or a keen willingness to learn
Your Future Team:
"My ambition is to build a team of innovative designers that will influence and shape the end users' experience in a sector that is still maturing in this area."
Paul Tudor - Principal User Experience Specialist @ Northrop Grumman UK
Our small but growing UX team are supportive and collaborative, helping each other succeed, learn and grow as professional user experience experts. Our teams consist of a mixture of experienced and early career professionals - we learn from each other
Our teams are collaborative and believe in sharing information to build an inclusive culture.
We believe that creating a team that values diversity and fosters inclusion is essential to great performance. We know the best ideas come from diversity of thought, background, perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.
You will have a line manager that is genuinely interested in you as a person and supporting your career and training needs.
About Our Responsibilities:
Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We'll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.
We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together. And within a respectful and inspirational environment, we value what you say and do.
UK Cyber & Intelligence Business:
Our UK Cyber & Intelligence business combines modern software development approaches with a rich heritage and experience in the defence and security sectors. Our customers have complex and sensitive data and information requirements requiring a mission partner who quickly understands the context, delivering and sustaining a portfolio of challenging technology projects at scale and pace, supporting them through an ambitious digital transformation programme.
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.
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