Senior UX Architect Job Description
Senior UX architect
provides support to the UX Design Team from an UX architecture/framework perspective and serves as UX Design team point-of-contact for strategic direction and alignment of the UI framework, user centered design process, digital artifacts and templates; Accountable for Experience Architecture delivery within enterprise architecture working groups.
Senior UX Architect Duties & Responsibilities
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You will be responsible for delivering every aspect of a user experience - the overall flow and layout of various applications, any fields and information presented, all interactions any required data visualizations
The program is divided into small, highly motivated, agile teams
Candidates do not necessarily need banking experience but must be passionate with a track record of successful deliveries and a stunning portfolio demonstrating how you work your end product
We need strong professionals with excellent team and communication skills
The ideal candidates will have a background delivering the UX for web and desktop applications for Financial Services and/or large scale markets trading applications
Leading the technical direction for client-side architecture across applications
Evangelizing web technologies across the organization
Develop and manage user mapping , User experience guidelines and acceptance criteria
Design of UX/UI architecture – identification of software components required to deliver business functionality (blueprint), based on input from Functional Solution
Contributes to, and architects, relevant architectural principles
Senior UX Architect Qualifications
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Education for Senior UX Architect
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior UX architect job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Design, Computer Science, Interaction Design, Education, Industrial, Foundation, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer, Architecture
Skills for Senior UX Architect
Desired skills for senior UX architect include:
Interactive design principles
Design production processes and activities
Design trends for mobile
CSS
Design thinking process and framework
Experience architecture
Familiarization with workshop and co-creations
HTML5
Industry’s latest trends and technologies
Information architecture
Desired experience for senior UX architect includes:
A background in delivering UX for web and desktop applications for financial services and/or trading or trading-related applications
Requires a Bachelor's Degree, and at least 5 years of high profile design work experience
Confidence in your ability to develop a visual aesthetic and robust Design Language for the K-12 Product, articulating and evolving the vision across multiple components across a device environment matrix using responsive and adaptive models
Strong knowledge of typography, grid structures and colour language as it applies to Brand development and core product structures and components
Confidence in highly collaborative cross-capability team environments - knowing when to lead pro-actively, when to ‘share' leadership, when to coach and when to step in (or out!)
Demonstrated ability in presenting design work to the highest standard
Senior UX Architect Examples
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Senior UX Architect Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior UX architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior UX architect
- Work with emerging technologies like Blockchain, IoT, and Data Virtualization
- Bring innovative Next-Gen tech products to market for Enterprise clients
- Employ conceptual thinking to create world-class digital products and services across platforms, synthesizing user needs, business goals, and technical solutions
- This is a lead design / developer role on the development team, working to define and incorporate UI and UX standards, and includes front-end development, and interaction with the Functional, Test, and Architecture teams
- Will work with the Functional and Development teams to build mockups, layouts, and user task flows
- Will work with the developers on the design and development of UI components, UI screen layouts, and UI standards to ensure consistency across multiple applications
- Will work with the developers to enhance application usability and accessibility
- Will illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, wireframes, and prototypes
- Guide and influence the Product/Service development process by leveraging your command of HCI and Design
- Both formally and informally uncover user needs and contexts via primary and secondary research techniques and leverage your learnings to come up with the big idea
Qualifications for senior UX architect
- Must have broad vision and depth to define new architecture
- Capable of efficiently handling multiple complex projects in a timely manner
- Advanced degree in HCI, Computer Science or equivalent, ideal
- Ability to initiate and lead new activities, and to work independently, in a team
- 50 – 75% - travel to and work on client/other sites
- Keep abreast of trends and best practices in interactive design, rich media and information design
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Our company is looking for a senior UX architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior UX architect
- Establish the strategy and lead DS validation activities to ensure that the DS meets the needs of UX designers and front-end developers end-users of products built using the DS
- Provide technical guidance to the practice manager with regards to industry best practices, design trends and technology UX design toolset and processes
- On-board new UX team members, both internal and consultants
- Sales Excellence & Service Excellence | delivers sales and service strategies and plans, operating model definition, incentive design and implementation, and operations support for digitally-enabled sales, channel, and customer service capabilities
- Flexible Consumption | the commercial strategy, operating model definition, and capability delivery of subscription/flexible consumption business models
- Digital Foundry | a flexible, end-to-end delivery model emphasizing innovation and disruption
- DigitalMix | an integrated set of platforms to enable business re-platforming
- Have 6+ years delivering design for digital systems, delivering measurable outcomes
- Be a people person that builds strong relationships and recognises and incorporates the perspectives of others
- Be able to shape the design approach appropriately for the context at hand
Qualifications for senior UX architect
- Advanced knowledge of architecture software programs (e.g., Axure, OmniGraffle, Sketch, Adobe software, inVision and similar)
- Range of concepting ability, from sketching to high-fidelity prototypes
- Expert-level familiarity with design patterns for mobile, tablet and Web
- An extremely detail-oriented and flexible mindset, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules (and while juggling multiple projects)
- Facilitate across project lines, , between various project teams both technical and non-technical
- Relevant industry certifications highly desirable
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Senior UX Architect Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior UX architect. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior UX architect
- Deliver in-line with the expectations you set, standing or falling as a complete team
- Be experienced in a well-functioning agile environment
- Be as happy shaping the direction as you are mucking-in
- Confidently and defensibly be able to present your design
- Believe in an evidence-based, continuous improvement culture
- Be happy in an environment that is undergoing large change
- Develop and implement a governance framework to support the growth of how user interfaces are built and leveraged to include their integration with other digital properties and experiences
- Obtaining consensus and alignment by working closely with IT architects to strongly influence and negotiate on all recommendations
- Collaborate with other UX team members to build out new user flows ensuring the full, end to end experience is considered
- Working with UX Design Lead create governance to ensure standards and best practices are appropriately communicated and documented between both PEGA and other digital properties
Qualifications for senior UX architect
- Curious about user behavior, seeks a clear understanding of the design problem, project objectives and value to the customer
- Experience leading design projects for enterprise applications and systems
- Embrace accountability - be willing to take risks and learn from mistakes
- Minimum of five years of related work experience in interaction design, user interface design, and user experience research
- Ability to create pixel-level mockups and/or clickable high fidelity prototypes based on an existing style guide, using tools such as Balsamiq, Fireworks, or Photoshop
- Bachelor’s in human factors, interaction design, psychology, or a related field (master’s preferred)
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior UX architect. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior UX architect
- Develop user scenarios, personas/archetypes, user flows, design concepts, wireframes, prototypes, UI standards documents and other design documents as needed
- Leads digital transformation through a sound enterprise Ux architecture practice and knowledge
- Defines the digital DesignOps transformation journey by developing the digital vision, principles, strategy, operating model, and architecture by proactively contributing with think leadership and influences on Ui/Ux Designs & Developments
- Gets to understand CN’s business and information technology to translate it into a digital operating model and architecture to rapidly integrate new technologies to fuel digital transformation
- Understands Ui/Ux for Rapid Application Development, capability building and reuse from applications standpoint
- Identifies application areas that could be improved with Ui/Ux
- Focuses on the architecture as a whole while peer architects deal with the individual parts of the architecture
- Puts in place best-in-class digital architecture processes for designing large scale and sophisticated Ui/Ux applications characterized by high throughput
- Works with peer architects, to produce and maintain appropriate relationships between business, information, application, technology and solution architects to build best of class Ui/Ux Platforms, Designs and Processes leveraging existing I&T Core architecture Platforms
- Excellent expertise and knowledge to help CN adopt Ui/Ux specific technology capabilities while improving existing Software & Hardware Development Lifecycle
Qualifications for senior UX architect
- Portfolio that demonstrates rock-sold skills in UX architecture and interaction design along with examples of designing systems across multiple products or platforms
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in design / user experience with a strong desire to focus on user-centered design and responsive designs
- Experience working in agile methodology is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Visual Communications, UI Design or other related field
- Formal UX or interaction design training post-bachelor's degree
- Five or more years working experience as a CX or UX Architect
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior UX architect. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior UX architect
- Ensures alignment with corporate information standards and policies, all areas of enterprise architecture
- Work in partnership with business stakeholders, project managers, content writers, and developers to design end-to-end experiences using participatory and iterative design techniques
- Identify the target audience, user stories, and use-cases based on project briefs, user interviews, and market research
- Conduct peer reviews, gather usability feedback, and provide QA reviews
- Act as a UX evangelist, ensuring others understand the value of UX activities and help develop and drive user experience strategy by serving as a mentor for other team members
- Participate in usability testing, scenario writing, moderating, and observing studies on both prototypes and published web content
- Work closely with product managers, business leads, engineers and fellow UX team members (architects, designers, writers, ) to define requirements for key company initiatives and how user design can help achieve them
- Facilitate and participate in requirement gathering to determine the optimal structure and flow of the experience that successfully satisfies all outlined business needs
- Collaborate with UX designers from conceptualization to implementation to ensure user needs, limitations and attitudes are accounted for in the experience design process
- Develop and maintain an in-depth knowledge of business success drivers, industry and regulatory trends, and competitive marketplace intelligence
Qualifications for senior UX architect
- Working knowledge of enterprise vs
- Mastery of sketching and layout tools
- Mastery of documentation and communication tools and an understanding of document style sheet best practices, spreadsheet data analysis and document versioning
- Excellent visual/verbal communicator with strong client-facing presentation skills
- Expert experience with prototyping tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, Axure Pro, required
- Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or similar is preferred