UX Architect / User Experience Architect

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UX Architect / User Experience Architect - User Research, Axure RP, Sketch, Principal, OmniGraffle

One of the UK's fasting growing iGaming companies is looking for an experienced UX Architect for a 3 month contract, located over in Leeds.

Your job as User Experience Architect will be to help develop the clients portfolio of digital products. You'll partner with product teams, creatives, developers and digital designers to define and test new concepts and assist with final implementation. Details are critical as you iterate on your sketches, user journeys, and complex prototypes.

Job Requirements

You'll be working within an agile environment to run workshops, shape user flows and create prototypes and other stimuli for use in user testing sessions. Additionally, you will get into the detailed interaction design, and see your work through into delivery.

You may also be called upon, to be an ambassador for the user experience as we evangelize UX around the wider business. As an excellent communicator, you'll be confident in articulating complex issues into simple language. Team fit is very important so the client is not only looking for deep technical knowledge; they are also looking for an approachable and garrulous individual with a real passion for getting stuck into a highly collaborative environment.

To be considered for this role, you must have the following experience/skills:

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills

* Excellent stakeholder management skills

* Experience gathering user and business requirements

* Comfortable using an array of prototyping tools and knowing which to use, for what job

* You will have minimum 3 years experience as a UX Architect or Senior UX Designer

* Experience in designing experiences for digital products

* Comfortable with using web metrics/traffic analysis to gather credible data

* AGILE scrum experience, working with backlogs and feature sets.

* Experience in workshop facilitation, and the full set of user centric research methodologies

Although not essential, the following skills/experience will be advantageous:

* Related academic background