Position: Design Lead / Architect
Company: Intellias
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**Design Community** is a bridge among Intellias projects and services we provide to empower every manager and engineer with best practices and insides. We want to get more attention from managers to the services that we provide and help them understand how we can help them with their problems.
**What will you get?**
- First-hand information about services that we already provide and services that we can provide
- Values that we can bring for the project
- Success stories, facts, methods, approaches, tools that can help managers on their projects
- Projects that we're working on
- Plans for the future, goals, milestones, status of milestones
https:// cutt.ly/ DesignComm

**The project to start with:**

Our client is the fastest-growing global tobacco manufacturing company. An international corporation with over a hundred years of history, internationally recognized brands and Reduced-Risk Products. Intellias' mission is to support its strategy and efforts in the Digital and eCommerce space.
A newly conceptualized Digital Eco System is comprised of a set of capabilities including online shop & website, linking online & offline, customization & personalization, engagement & membership, digital product & services main differences.

**Key responsibilities:**

- Develop and maintain UX strategy along with the operational model to ensure the key guidelines and standards are adhered to by IT teams (focus on Employee experience, but working closely with teams responsible for Customer Experience). Design processes to embed UX capabilities into strategic projects 
- Define the UX tools, roles/skills and processes necessary to execute UX strategy  
- Conduct user research (ex: interview, focus groups, usability testing, surveys, facilitate workshops) to understand UX pain points and identify opportunities  
- Assess the new UX technologies and solutions and update UX standards accordingly  
- Coach and support Solution Architects and IT delivery teams in the key projects to ensure that UX design is aligned with the agreed standards 
- Animate the UX architecture topics, usability and user-centered design across IT teams and key users and regularly gather feedback in order to validate/revise the UX strategy at the company

**Requirements:**

1. 10+ years of overall experience in the IT discipline in a multi-national environment
2. 5+ years as UX Architect with the following skills required:
  -  Proven experience with building/maintaining an Enterprise UX strategy in a large organization, including both Employee and Customer Experience
  - Solid understanding of all UX practices, including user research, information architecture, interaction, and visual design, content strategy, and corresponding methodologies
  - Skilled in UX tools for the various stages of development - wireframing and prototyping, user research and testing, organizing information, analytics and metrics
  - Strong background in gathering business requirements, translating them into detailed specifications, designing web and mobile solutions for large enterprises targeting multiple digital devices.
  - Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and mobile app development frameworks (e.g. Xamarin, Flutter, etc.)
  - Strong experience in data visualization, dashboard design, and information architecture
3. Experience as a Solution or Enterprise Architect will be a plus, in particular:
  - Experience in Business Architecture, for instance, with Business Capability framework is a big plus
  - Experience in Solution Architecture tasks and methods, a good understanding of solution architecture concepts, standards, and patterns, experience in the technology selection process
  - Good understanding of technology trends like cloud, analytics, mobility, integration, big data, security
4. Experience in building and driving new IT strategies from scratch, e.g. create Enterprise-wide UX strategy.
5. Solid understanding of IT Processes and the frameworks like ITIL, IT4IT, COBIT, etc.
6. Fluent oral and written English skills is an absolute must

**Personal qualities: **

- Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills 
- Solid leadership and project management skills 
- Creative problem solver and strategic thinker  
- Passionate about user satisfaction and user-centered design  
- The holistic mindset with a cross-enterprise view and ability to evaluate both short and long-term perspectives and perform tradeoff analysis  
- Ability to keep strong relationships with key stakeholders, communicate and deliver executive presentations to senior management  
- Excellent analytical skills, proactivity, structured and results-driven way of working with attention to detail, and ability to get things done 
- Highly motivated, hardworking individual with a desire to continually learn new skills and improve