Barclays are hiring a
Senior UI / UX Designer
Job Description
Purpose of the role
To create user-centred and visually appealing designs for digital banking products by conducting user research, design of user interfaces and experiences, collaboration with stakeholders, and continuous improvement.
Accountabilities
- Execution of user research and usability tests to understand customer needs, pain points, and integrate feedback and preferences to banking products and services, through collaboration with various stakeholders, including product managers and developers.
- Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience.
- Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products.
- Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development.
- Accessibility considerations to ensure that designs comply with accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
- Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are:
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Join us as a Senior UI/UX Designer - a critical component of our Agile Transformation Strategy. We are establishing a Design Centre of Excellence to embed Human-Centred Design across all delivery Tribes. Without this role, Tribes will lack essential design support, increasing the risk of developing solutions that are not user-led and may result in negative outcomes for our clients.
This role will focus on developing products and features for our private banking and wealth management colleagues and customers. You will work closely with your cross-functional partners within a tribe and squad to create user-centred and visually compelling digital products for internal and consumer-facing use. Key responsibilities include conducting user research, designing intuitive user interfaces and experiences, collaborating closely with stakeholders, cross-functional partners and service designers to help drive continuous improvement and ensure our digital banking solutions meet user needs.
You will blend traditional UX/UI skills with an understanding of private bank user needs and processes, making it more specialised than standard digital product design roles.
To be successful as a Senior UI/UX Designer, you should have experience with:
- Data Visualisation & big data design
- Prototyping & UX research
- Enterprise level web application design
- Figma
- Maze
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Design system
- Systems thinking
- Wireframing
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
