UX Designer
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Occupation TypeWeb design professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£43,800
(£22.46 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job specification
London. Full time.
Job Description
User Experience (UX) Designers form a core part of our Digital Experience community. They are passionate advocates for end users, grounded in best practices and user-centred methodologies.
With strong foundations in UX and UI design, research, data, and design thinking, UX Designers craft engaging, accessible, and useful digital products and services across a wide range of audiences and platforms. They share a versatile base role, often working across all key phases of the User Centred Design (UCD) lifecycle — from Discover through to deliver, while specialising in either design or research.
Our UX Designers are confident working collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and are comfortable engaging with users, stakeholders, and developers.
As Part Of Their Role, UX Designers
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job specification
London. Full time.
Job Description
User Experience (UX) Designers form a core part of our Digital Experience community. They are passionate advocates for end users, grounded in best practices and user-centred methodologies.
With strong foundations in UX and UI design, research, data, and design thinking, UX Designers craft engaging, accessible, and useful digital products and services across a wide range of audiences and platforms. They share a versatile base role, often working across all key phases of the User Centred Design (UCD) lifecycle — from Discover through to deliver, while specialising in either design or research.
Our UX Designers are confident working collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and are comfortable engaging with users, stakeholders, and developers.
As Part Of Their Role, UX Designers
- Implement user research and usability testing, to inform decisions at both strategic and tactical levels.
- Undertake tasks such as persona development, needs analysis, site mapping, wireframing and prototyping.
- Plan and execute research to understand user types, behaviours, and needs — ensuring that digital experiences are truly user-led.
- Translate research and insights into visual and interactive concepts that evoke engagement and response, leveraging the power of imagery, motion, and interaction.
- Help teams and clients consume and act on research insights to improve policy, service design, and digital product outcomes.
All roles in our Digital Experience community require a passion for creating digital experiences that delight and inspire diverse audiences. Our UX Designers work collaboratively to shape compelling digital services that are empathetic to user needs and deliver measurable business results.
At this level, the designer is expected to carry out the following duties (but not limited to):
Our UX Designer community are multi-disciplinary and align to roles inside the Government’s Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework#user-centred-design-job-family. This role is equivalent to a Level 3 Designer.
How We Will Support You
At this level, the designer is expected to carry out the following duties (but not limited to):
- Communicate research findings, design rationale, and user needs clearly to teams and stakeholders, supporting shared understanding and decision-making.
- Champion user-centred and agile design practices, contributing to a collaborative environment across delivery teams.
- Continuously track emerging technologies, industry shifts and behavioural trends, translating relevant developments into opportunities that strengthen product direction and research or design practice.
- Design interface interactions through an iterative, evidence-based approach. Drawing insight from interviews, analytics, usability studies, and user feedback.
- Translate research and business requirements into user interface and visual design concepts that maintain brand consistency and visual quality.
- Create design deliverables such as visual direction, GUI mockups, style guides, and conceptual UI work that help bring ideas to life.
- Create user-centred design artefacts such as wireframes, information architecture (e.g. site maps and navigation models), and interactive prototypes.
Our UX Designer community are multi-disciplinary and align to roles inside the Government’s Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework#user-centred-design-job-family. This role is equivalent to a Level 3 Designer.
How We Will Support You
- Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
- As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office
- You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
- Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
- You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
- You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
- You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing
About Our Team
Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.
You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.
You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.
We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.
More About BAE Systems
You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA.
For More Information Please Visit Our Website
https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/uk-businesses/digital-intelligence/markets/national-security-and-law-enforcement
Help us secure a connected world. Apply now and be inspired.
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
Division overview: Government
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our
For More Information Please Visit Our Website
https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/uk-businesses/digital-intelligence/markets/national-security-and-law-enforcement
Help us secure a connected world. Apply now and be inspired.
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
Division overview: Government
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.
As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our
clients, and this is yours.