UX Designer

IRM is a cybersecurity consultancy with a twenty year history of delivering a world-class service to some of the UK’s biggest brands and organisations. Two years ago, IRM was acquired by the Altran Group – the world’s leading engineering and R&D Company, with around 45,000 employees around the globe and a turnover of around €3 billion.

Since the acquisition, we have moved into new and exciting areas of security, using Altran’s global account managers to welcome new clients through our doors.

We have opened satellite offices in locations including Portugal and Santa Clara as we begin to position ourselves as a global player in cybersecurity. With Altran’s backing, we aim to be the leading security testing company for the world’s largest engineering brands.

Department:

Software Development

The Role:

The UX Designer will contribute to the overall UX and UI design of IRM’s Governance, Risk and Compliance software platform SYNERGi. Award-winning, sophisticated GRC platform used by organisations to develop, maintain and report compliance against legal and regulatory obligations. The cloud-based platform has a range of different modules to choose from, delivering wireframes and final designs that satisfy the business requirements. The candidate will make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to both existing and new features, working along the Agile development team in sprint cycles.

Required skills / experience

• An up to date portfolio that showcases your UX and UI experience
• Significant experience in User Centric Design (UCD) in a similar role, ideally in an Agile environment
• Accomplished visual design and conceptual skills and able to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
• Experience in iteratively moving from initial wireframes to final designs throughout Agile development sprint cycles
• A solid understanding of web usability concepts and principles

Desirable skills / experience

• Graphic design experience
• Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Working knowledge of IA UX software (eg OmniGraffle, Axure)
• Working knowledge of web standards
• Experience of creating prototypes

Benefits

• Competitive salary (experience dependant)
• Expenses paid second and fourth Friday of every month
• Life assurance
• Medical*
• Dental*
• Pension contribution (increases in line with length of service)*
• 25 days holiday allowance (increasing to 28 days in line with length of service with IRM)

* Offered after probation is passed

If you feel this is the right role for you and that IRM could provide you with the right career and environment please contact Ross Brereton – IRM Recruitment Manager at ross.brereton@irmsecurity.com