UX Lead

Summary: The UX Lead role involves orchestrating collaboration among UI/UX designers and technical resources to translate business outcomes into solution requirements. The position requires defining integration patterns and ensuring API governance while maintaining delivery roadmaps and stakeholder satisfaction. The role also emphasizes agile methodologies and acting as a bridge between business and technology teams. This is a contract position based in Telford, UK, with a focus on public sector projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate collaboration among UI/UX designers, integration architect/s, and Managed File Transfer resources, unblock dependencies and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Translate business outcomes into solution requirements and epics; ensure traceability from requirements to delivered features.
• Define integration patterns (API led, event driven, batch/ETL) and data models (canonical schemas, mapping, transformation rules).
• Define error handling, retry, and failover mechanisms independent of integration tools.
• Ensure API governance and lifecycle management standards (versioning, security, documentation).
• Build and maintain delivery roadmaps with clear milestones; monitor risks/issues and mitigation.
• Provide client facing updates, prepare steering materials, and ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
• Enable agile ceremonies (PI planning, backlog refinement) and ensure Definition of Ready/Done is met.
• Being a key contributor and advocate of Java, integration experience, Microservice, API Management frameworks in projects and programs.
• Act as a bridge between business and technology teams for clarity and alignment.

Key Skills:

• Over 15 years hands on experience in solution consulting/architecture or senior business systems analysis within large scale public sector or regulated environments.
• Good communicator and collaborator with the customer.
• Experience in working GDS, UCD standards and compliance for UK public sector.
• Understand full Integrated Architecture and drive Agenda and Meetings with Client.
• Able to provide effort estimation with minimal deviation.
• Proven track record coordinating cross functional teams (UI/UX, integration, testing, DevOps).
• Strong understanding of Java, microservices, Integration tools, API-led connectivity, REST, OAS/RAML, security standards.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and documentation.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Telford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other