Senior Interaction Designer

Role: Senior Interaction Designer

Salary: £43,269 (Up to £51,839 for current Civil Servants)

Location: Cardiff (hybrid)

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through some incredible projects whilst working with one of the first fully cloud-based organizations.

They are now seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Interaction Designer to take ownership of interaction design in developing new taxes. You will work closely with service designers, user researchers and developers to create digital services that are easy to use and help users have successful interactions.

What the Senior Interaction Designer will be doing

• Solve business problems and design, understanding the business problem which needs to be solved, and engaging with others across the organisation to design and implement an appropriate solution
• Provide mentorship to our apprentice and junior developers
• Develop software to meet user needs, this may include designing a new system or iterating existing services
• Follow best-practice guidelines, and write clean code
• Build secure applications that are subject to regular IT security health checks, making improvements on recommendations and tracking changes
• Identify issues in production and resolve them
• Control releases using CI/CD tools and provide post-live support

What the successful Senior Interaction Designer will bring to the team

• Experience designing, code and correct programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity
• The ability to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally, championing user research to focus on all users.
• Experience designing solutions with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.

Here’s What You’ll Get in Return

• 30% Pension
• 31 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• Learning opportunities including funded Welsh language courses • dedicated wellbeing time offered weekly
• Hybrid working options.

Think this one’s for you

If you think this Senior Interaction Designer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.