UX Designer

Northampton, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90273890

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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UX Designer
Northampton or Manchester

As a Barclays UX (User Experience) Designer you will be part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team of UX designers, UI designers, UX researchers and UX copywriters. We are a growing team looking for an ambitious and talented UX Designer to help craft first-class online experiences for our customers, across Barclays and Barclaycard business and international digital channels.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

What will you be doing?
• Pushing for a customer-centric approach whilst delivering on required business objectives
• Leading and executing the UCD process from start to finish including the delivery of personas, user journeys, sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Identifying and implementing process improvements within the team
• Facilitating and leading workshops, presentations and walkthrough sessions as required to explore business requirements
• Ensuring all outputs adhere to all relevant policies and standards e.g. channel, accessibility, brand, design language
• Gathering in-depth insights into user’s needs and motivations and organise content and information across our digital products to deliver a positive experience
• Working closely with stakeholders and product owners to explore and understand their business outcomes and produce concepts and designs
• Delivering designs for digital experiences, focused on user needs, for delivery within agreed quality, time and cost constraints

What we’re looking for:
• 3 years’ experience in a UX Design role with experience of designing for digital products and for complex systems across web experiences and/or mobile applications
• Clear and articulate language skills and written communication abilities
• Academic background or professional qualification in a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Solid knowledge and understanding of core digital technologies such as, or similar to, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Android and iOS

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Experience working in an Agile environment, including an understanding of methods and software (Rally/AGILE Central, JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience working in the financial sector and/or agency experience
• Understanding of accessibility best-practise for digital products and services

Where will you be working?

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997.
We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton. Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45 it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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More about working at Barclays

Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community.
We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

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