Lead Service Designer

Steria Recruitment ,
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
Salary: £650 per day

Overview

Lead Service Designer Location: Edinburgh Duration: 3-months, extensions likely Daily Rate: £650 - 750 per day IR35: Inside EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY: Sopra Steria is currently recruiting for a Lead Service Designer to join their Edinburgh office. This contract is for an initial three months, with the option to extend beyond that. Key Responsibilities Design for user needs - identify, describe and design for user needs, including a comprehensive awareness of accessibility needs and ensuring that user stories are well defined. Prototype design and analysis Interpreting and presenting results of evaluations and prioritising issues for senior stakeholders. UX support - Has a solid understanding of core UX tools and techniques. Design systems - Is able to lead and provide consultancy on the development of design systems to create consistent and impactful user experience. Design user experience - Can absorb large amounts of information and translates concepts into outputs and prototypes and captures user feedback to improve designs. Specifies appropriate tools, methods and design patterns. Impact analysis - Plan and undertake analysis, to help design decisions and understand their trade-off's. Can lead on this in relation to service design work for projects. Key Skills and Experience Strong experience working as a Lead Service Designer / Strategy Design Lead. Strong digital design / product development background Senior level designer with experience of managing teams Proven ability to balance the needs of the user with the objectives of the business Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for user research. Experience of devising strategy, blueprints and journey maps Providing oversight, quality assurance and stakeholder management Public sector or large corporate background would be ideal. Evidence of a passion for design - e.g. arranging meet-ups, design blogs etc. The post holder will work Intelligent Resource for Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, providing one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings on the market: consulting, systems integration, software development, infrastructure management and business process services. Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation. Should you choose to contact Intelligent Resource regarding this role or apply for it, all personal data you submit to us will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Notice which you can find on our website.