Senior UI Consultant

Department: Professional Services

Reports to: Project Manager

Location: West London and on customer sites as required

IVIS Group empowers customer-facing organisations to satisfy the needs of their customers, employees and partners across every channel. Our mission is to be the recognised expert in delivering multi-channel business strategies and solutions.

Our Professional Services Division has won a number of globally recognised awards for the design and implementation of innovative enterprise e-business systems (including the world's largest online grocery site). We launched one of the earliest commercial implementations of the Web Services paradigm in 1999 even before the official release of Web Services and SOA.

In addition to the Professional Services arm, the company's flagship Information Management solution, Sonetto, provides e-business tools to manage highly complex content and product information using rules defined directly by business users. Sonetto is one of the first commercial implementations of the "Semantic Web", one of the fundamental building blocks of Web 2.0. Sonetto is currently used today by the third largest retailer in the world.

IVIS Group's success is underpinned by an environment that values integrity, innovation and a passion for technology. Our people relish the chance to successfully deliver solutions that bridge the gap between business and IT whilst maintaining a focus on the empowerment of our clients.

We are currently looking for a Senior UI Consultant to join our Professional Services practice working as part of a talented and innovative team in the areas of Usability and Accessibility. You will have a passion for simplicity and elegance in UI design and be involved building Scaleable, Accessible systems for high profile customers.

Responsibilities

• Interact with customers to help create detailed requirements and design specifications that will shape the overlook and feel of the solution.
• Perform user and task analysis; define use cases and information architecture
• Develop conceptual models, process flows, navigational maps and strategies
• Design and build scaleable User interfaces incorporating UI/Accessibility standards and best practice
• Interact with other senior consultants to ensure design decisions for individual work fit within the physical and application architecture
• Identify potential security threats during the analysis and design process
• Establish process for the deployment and maintenance of applications with quality and repeatability in mind
• Create and maintain high quality UI design patterns
• Mentor and share knowledge with colleagues
• Support Sales efforts by identifying opportunities and communicating them to the sales team
• Carry out Pre-sales activities and provide input on proposals and presentations

Required skills and experience

• Experience of analysis, design, development and implementation of enterprise solutions and consumer driven applications
• Strong knowledge of the following concepts Web standards, Usability, Accessibility, user-centred design, ie. W3C, (X)HTML standards, W3C DOM etc.
• Experience of implementing Accessibility standards i.e. WCAG, WAI and/or knowledge of Ajax or Web 2.0
• Technical development skills to include: HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML/XSL/XPath, ASP/ASP.NET, JavaScipt/DOM Scripting/DHTML
• Experience of formal development/design methodologies i.e. UML, RUP or similar
• Good understanding of issues and standards surrounding Web Services, Accessibility and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Knowledge of, or experience with screen readers and other assistive technology
• Understanding of application deployment technology and management/operational processes
• Windows server platform configuration experience and scripting including IIS and SMTP configuration

Characteristics

• A "can-do" attitude with a passion and general curiosity for technology
• Ability to communicate business values and benefits
• Methodical with good attention to detail
• Able and keen to use initiative to identify and take ownership for additional tasks that add value to the customer or team
• Able to work in a team or independently and manage own time
• Strong communicator with the ability to interact with customers at all levels
• Willingness to travel is essential

Desirable skills

• OO Programming .NET, C#. Apache/PHP, SQL Server
• Search engine optimisation