Principal UX/UI Designer

R&D focused SW & Electronics Technology Company is looking to hire a Principal UX/UI Designer to join the R&D Concept Development team. You will be responsible for taking a lead on all UX/UI design activities for all software related projects.  This will involve taking ownership of projects from the idea generation phase, through the concept development phase to system demonstration in the lab and in the field. The role will involve interaction with and technical oversight of both a multi-disciplinary internal engineering team and external partners. Essential skills/experience: Capturing and managing User Experience with internal and external customers to feed into design of Graphical User Interfaces. Ability to capture user requirements/stories and translate them into an elegant user friendly design. Familiarity with the challenges of taking a concept design from early idea generation through to mature prototype. Ability to analyse solutions and make prototype design trade-offs. Designing Graphical User Interface software including high-level design and coding activities. Liaising with technology suppliers to keep the company’s technology up-to-date and to apply latest fixes to third-party components used by the company.  Ability to design and code GUI software using modern languages/stacks Ability to express software designs using methodology such as UML. Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. Desirable skills: Design and development experience with the MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) stack. Design experience with any of C#/Java/Python for GUIs. Design experience for geographical mapping/controls Design experience for RF/analogue displays/controls (spectrum analysis etc.) in GUIs. Experience with the Atlassian toolset (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket). Due to the nature of the work, you must be eligible for SC clearance. If you are interested, please contact Matt Andrews.