Corporate Solutions Architect, UX Specialist recruitment

My client a market leading financial technology consultancy requires a solutions architect. This is a role for a field-based user experience expert to define and build real-time desktop applications using my clients high performance platform. The Corporate Solutions Architect, User Experience Specialist will act as a customer liaison to the engineering teams and will help drive user experience direction.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer requirements and drivers, and provide complete solutions and roadmaps.

• Capture and communicate relevant market and customer feedback to provide input to our strategy and product development process.

• Understand and document user requirements

• Develop user experience development plans

• Prototype use cases for prospective clients

• Discuss high-level solution viability and implementation strategies.

Required Experience

• Strong academic credentials in UX design, computer science and engineering.

• 5+ years experience with front-end GUI development.

• One of :.NET, HTML5, Java, or RCP GUI development experience.

• Strong analytical and business process skills, and ability to apply them to technical solutions.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of user experience design

• Strong background in product definition, prototyping, and scoping

• Strong client management skills

• Solid hands-on experience in networking, firewall and system software configuration.

• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQLServer, etc.).

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including talent in presenting complex concepts, relating to customers, listening, and negotiating.

• Ability to work independently or as a member of a team.

• Ability to interface with senior-level executives and effectively respond to technical questions.

• A history of proactive communication and sharing among the technical community internally as well as externally.