Description:

The User Experience (UX) Architect collaborates across the organization to envision and create user-centered digital experiences. Possesses a strategic mindset and ability to collaborate with and influence product teams in response to business goals working with the UX team, business stakeholders, product management and technology partners. Participates in the execution of best practices. Focuses on driving project architecture to better support sales and service goals on behalf of the bank's business lines. Works with others on the UX team to better engineer and deliver quality user experiences for our customers across all digital platforms, from mobile to desktop, from digital account opening to online banking.

Primary Responsibilities

Facilitates conversations to solve complex problems and produce use cases, customer flows, navigation systems, wireframes, content inventories, sitemaps, taxonomy, functional requirements, and proof-of-concepts

Helps define information architecture principles and guidelines for web applications, including content organization and hierarchy, navigation and guidance systems, and content integration

Identifies user-experience design priorities and scenarios; defines interaction requirements; and works with UX, strategy and product teams to align short and long-term releases

Coordinates with the UX design system team to create cohesive and scalable patterns to be leveraged across product lines, applying established patterns to prototypes and mockups to ensure consistency across products and influence the creation of new patterns for use by UX and development teams

Evangelizes user-centered product design within the company. Works to incorporate user-centered approaches into the company's product development process

Works with development teams at the execution level to ensure development implementation that is true to original design intent

Participates in usability testing and design reviews

Participates in team initiatives including process improvement and thought leadership

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Design, Computer Science, Information Sciences, Psychology, Human Factors, or Human Centered Design & Engineering

Five (5) years designing systems and process structure for web and mobile solutions for enterprise platforms

Ability to create wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, functional requirements, work models, user profiles, user scenarios and usability objectives, aligned with business and user goals

Ability to incorporate design-thinking methodologies, facilitating workshops with both stakeholders and users to align on solutions

Ability to work within Agile/Scrum/SAFe development methodologies

Experience creating influential relationships with cross-functional teams including development and product management within and across product groups

Care deeply about the end user's needs, goals and desires

Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others' perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly

Preferences

Organized, able to think beyond what is asked for, and able to juggle multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced, often evolving environment

Experience with complex business models

Verbal and written presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to quickly adapt the content to the audience

Passion for learning

Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, and MS Office

Peripheral knowledge of contemporary web technologies including HyperText Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, Responsive Frameworks, Scalable Vector Graphics, Web Accessibility

Required Skills : Excel
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Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
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Project Verification Info :
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Architecture/Design
Master Job Title :Architect: Apps (Other)
Branch Code :Birmingham