EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Experience working alongside a user researcher and technical architect using user centred design practices to ensure user stories and user research are at the heart of product design
- Proven ability to seign services to meet valid user needs including planning, designing and conducting usability testing of prototypes.
- Proven experience in use of industry standard web application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Java, Javascript, PHP, Ruby and Python
- Excellent written and verbal communication including strong negotiation skills and the ability to influence external partners, suppliers and stakeholders
- Proven experience in use of service-based technologies such as SOAP, RESTful APIs, XML and JSON
- Experience of working using Agile Methodology
- Experience delivering outputs in line with Government Digital Service Design and Manual and Government Technology code of practice and assessment process
- Experience of deploying and building web applications on Cloud Foundry using buildpacks and the CLI
- Experience of developing products to meet the needs of assisted digital users to ensure the service is designed to enable a maximum digital take up
- Proven experience of iterative product development based on user needs and stories
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Understanding of Government Digital Service design principles
- Experience designing services for GOV.UK
- Experience working in multidisciplinary agile teams
- Experience of developing products to meet the needs of assisted digital users to ensure the service is designed to enable maximum digital take up