User Experience Designer – Consultant – Digital Factory

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Full time
Location: Glasgow
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Job offered by: Capgemini
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Explore our latest thought leadership, ideas, and insights on the issues that are shaping the future of business and society. Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future. Discover our portfolio – constantly evolving to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of our clients. Become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and experts – and help us to make a difference. See our latest news, and stories from across the business, and explore our archives. We are a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose. YOUR ROLE

As a User Experience Designer, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Factory community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing and building digital services and products. You will champion inclusive design practices throughout our project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables. Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector. Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations. As a User Experience Designer you will:

Use different techniques to identify and understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches to meet these needs. Design accessible and impactful products and services for some of our public and private sector clients. Employ a wide range of skills, interviewing users, creating detailed plans, understanding and extrapolating data, facilitating workshops, presenting research findings and more. Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence. Apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design interactive prototypes, both products and services. Understand and resolve design-centric disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk. Lead and guide teams, setting the pace, ensuring teams are delivering. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid Agile delivery. Communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context and making complex and technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories: Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events. Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development. Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. YOUR PROFILE

We'd love to meet someone with: Grounding in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery. Knowledge of which tools, process or methods to use and how to bring an agile delivery team along with you. Evidence of working with User Centred Design colleagues to synthesize insights and act on the outcomes. You will either already have SC (Security Check) Clearance or you are able to qualify for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 3 years and not having left the country for more than 6 consecutive months during this period). Experience working with Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards, using GDS design principles. Experience working with relevant accessibility standards and legislation, such as the Web Content Accessibility Regulations (WCAG). Experience using a range of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, Axure etc. An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences. Ability to present designs and justify decisions you’ve made using an evidence-based approach. Proven ability to create high-quality, compelling design concepts and artefacts such as personas, service maps and wireframes. Understanding of what good digital services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way. Experienced in rapid paper and digital prototyping. Ability to analyse code for accessibility issues in HTML and CSS. Ideally, you would also have:

Certifications in accessibility (CPACC, WAS, CPWA) or working towards. Experience testing and auditing assistive technology (JAWS, Dragon, ZoomText) and accessibility features for Windows and macOS. WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

We are delighted to have received the

“Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years . To see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page. Capgemini Invent offers Consultants a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value. You’ll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies. Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array of different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client’s outcomes. Les Fontaines : Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed. We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new. NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as

one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.

When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing. Whilst you will have

London ,

Manchester

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Glasgow

as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on grade and on company and personal performance.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.

More information is available at:

Capgemini Invent . Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Ref. code 80245-en_GB Posted on 19 Dec 2024 Experience level: Experienced Professionals Contract type: Permanent Location: Manchester, Glasgow, London Business unit: INVENT When you join Capgemini, you don’t just start a new job. You become part of something bigger. Learn about how the recruitment process works – how to apply, where to follow your application, and next steps. To help you bring out the best of yourself during the interview process, we’ve got some great interview tips to share before the big day.

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