User Centric Designer

Job title: User Centric Designer The team/department: A new product team is being setup at the FCA in Leeds which will deliver products and product enhancements to our FCA colleagues using the new OmniStudio low code and integration platform of Salesforce. This is part of a major commitment to ensure that the regulator of financial services is equipped with suitable tooling for its vital role. Our users are excited at the prospect of rapid and high-quality delivery and populating this team with suitable capability and expertise is a priority. What you will be doing:

• Become the leading design practitioner of a new, core and rapidly growing development platform within the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Lead and take responsibility for the design of Salesforce modules and integrations within an Agile team.
• Provide leadership for the team’s design activities and best practices.
• Oversee the adoption of design best practices within the team leading to self-optimisation and continuous improvement
• Work with Architects, Developers, Product Owners and User stakeholders to ensure alignment with design activities.
• Support Product Owners in their activities of prioritisation, planning and release activities within the responsibilities of your role.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, pride for the job done, psychological safety and team happiness.

The skills and experience you will have Minimum: We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate’s CV. For example, ‘Experience of employment law’ is measurable for looking at someone’s CV but ‘Knowledge of HR practices’ is not. Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme.

• Extensive of UI/UX Development or Design Experience underpinned by solid understanding of user-centered design and interaction design principles.
• Experience of taking responsibility for the delivery of designs and related artefacts, complying with requirements, design standards and delivery constraints.
• Ability to approach design activities with:
  • A user-centric mindset
  • A creative and analytical approach
  • Adaptability
  • Attention to detail
• Experience of assessing existing information architecture/layout and flows, identifying areas for improvement, designing ‘to-be’ information architectures, layouts and flows.

Essential:

• Experience of creating prototypes, taxonomies and wireframes.
• Ability to collaborate with design peer-professionals to evolve and refine our design approach, ensuring visual cohesion and engineering efficiency across all user touchpoints.

Desirable:

• Familiar with a range of design tooling.
• Experience of at least one of HTML5, CSS3, and ES6.
• Experience of creating and using design patterns
• Business know-how: Understanding of business metrics and the ability to translate FCA goals and objectives into digital experiences.
• Ability to innovate in the selection and application of design practice.

What you will get from the role: Technology within the FCA is ambitious, with an established and forward-thinking digital strategy, focused on exploiting cloud technologies, and an operating model recognised as more pioneering than many in the private sector. The Technology Division is actively focused on the professional development of colleagues throughout their careers with us. We are committed to establishing a culture of inclusion that enables diversity to underpin our ways of working.

• Interesting and fast paced work with access to the latest tools, technologies and training
• A friendly, inclusive environment and a supportive management team to help you be at your best
• A unique insight into regulated industries and the opportunity to protect millions of people
• The salary range in Leeds is up to £72,000 per annum plus a competitive benefits package, including a non-contributory pension

Our competitive Flexible Benefits Scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash. Additional information on the core benefits you will receive can be found here. About the FCA: The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here. The FCA's Values & Diversity: Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator Flexible working: We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working from home, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking. Multilocation & hybrid working: As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, and London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from. The FCA also supports hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations. Useful information:

• Applications for this role close on at midnight on 26/05/2023
• Got a question? If you are interested learning more about the role, please contact Lucy Shave at Lucy.Shave@fca.org.uk
• The interview process for this opportunity will involve a competency-based interview and technical case study. For additional guidance and support on the FCA’s interview process, please visit our careers site here.