Purpose of the post
Health Data Research UK requires the services of an experienced User Interface (UI) / Experience (UX) Designer to work within its technology team. You will work across a range of HDR UK technical solutions including the Health Data Research Gateway, the Disease Atlas, Researcher Registry, Phenotype Library and Cohort Discovery.
The role will involve defining the user experience that will inform user journeys, designs and user stories for the HDR UK roadmap. You will help drive innovation in line with business strategies and goals. You will manage and co-ordinate the expectations of multiple interested parties with different requirements and timelines.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that develops an over-arching interoperable infrastructure to ensure that UK health data assets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) and accessible for research, innovation and clinical trials. The successful candidate will be expected to work within an Agile software development team, providing design leadership of key functionality and new concepts, primarily focused on the infrastructure and services. Objectives will include designing interfaces for surfacing datasets collated from multiple partners and sources (metadata federation) in a clear and concise fashion and facilitate the driving of data discovery and access requests across those partners.
Main responsibilities
- Build out of user stories and development of UI designs for the Gateway and our wider technical portfolio, working with key internal and external stakeholders
- Document end-to-end user journeys to provide simple and compelling user experiences, ensuring these are objective, succinct and documented
- Co-ordinate internal and external workshops to gather user requirements and build user stories
- Validate designs with key partners
- Collaborate with technical partners providing relevant services which need to be integrated, for example cohort discovery functionality
- Collaborate with the HDR UK technology team that provides the underpinning technology and processes including the Gateway
- Involvement in the Quality Assurance (QA) / testing of code releases to ensure they meet requirements
- Working to an Agile methodology, with fortnightly sprint deliveries
- Team work expectations
- Joint design work with BA, Product Owner, key partners and Developers
- Participate in daily stand-ups and other sprint events
- Strong collaboration with existing Technology team and working within its supporting infrastructure, processes and design methodology
- Flexibility to contribute to other projects across the institute based on business need
- Collaboration with senior HDR UK members, technology teams and external technical partners
Experience
- Minimum of four years experience in a UI/UX Design role
- Experience in working on complex projects with competing priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Experience communicating and managing multiple stakeholders
- Experience planning and running design thinking workshops and useability tests in-person and/or virtually
- Passion for the user journey through infrastructure & services technologies
- Experience of working within Healthcare, UK Public Sector, Academia, Life-Sciences, Clinical Trials or Research
- Experience using Figma, LucidChart, Confluence, JIRA, Trello, and similar Agile project management tools as part of an Agile / SCRUM team environment.
Skills
- Ability to work accurately, with great attention-to-detail
- Excellent networking skills with a desire to work collaboratively to achieve goals; experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively and confidently with people at all levels, including senior management
- Proficient in developing mock-ups and wireframes for user interfaces using tools such as Figma and LucidChart.
- Ability to design visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces based on user requirements and feedback, including typography, colour schemes, and layout.
- Able to clearly communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Excellent negotiation skills with commitment and ability to bring together people and infrastructure to drive forward improvements/changes
Please note, as we are a UK-based organisation, applicants must be living in, and eligible to work in, the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
