UI/UX Designer

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Summary of the work The UKHO has a vision to become the world's leading marine geospatial information agency. This involves a major programme of change and technical innovation. The Marine Information Transformation programme is tasked with delivering that change. The UI/UX Designer will ensure delivery of high quality user experience within this programme. Specialist role Designer Expected Contract Length 6 Months Latest start date Monday 4 December 2017 Maximum Day Rate £350 Who Speclialist Work With The designer will primarily work within the Marine Information Transformation (MINT) programme who are working with leading edge big data technologies such as Hadoop, Nifi, Spark and Hive. The team is building a data reservoir to store, manage and refine data received from sources around the globe. The system will be used by subject matter experts in the UKHO but they are not experts in the technology and so in order that we gain true benefits from the system we need interaction to be intuitive, flexible and predominantly self-service. What Specialists Work On Firstly, work with 2 agile development teams and user researchers to deliver new and improve existing user experiences, interactions and visual design, working through entire project lifecycle from initial idea generation, site maps, sketches, storyboards, process flows, user flows and wireframes to deliver visually rich, simple and easy-to-use experiences. Secondly, work with the Head of Technology Production Engineering to guide the UKHO UI/UX strategy within an agile environment in terms of best practices, lessons learnt, job descriptions and team integration. Skills & Experience • Technical competence is how well the supplier can do the work you need them to do. • Essential skills and experience Work Location Taunton, Somerset Working Arrangments Working onsite as part of an agile delivery team Security Clearance All staff must be SC cleared. We will ask bidders for details of key personnel, if successful the bidder will be asked for confirmation of security clearance or we will initiate clearance process No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Work well in a collaborative agile team Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 50% Cultural fit 20% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. Is this inside or outside of IR35? Inside IR35