UI / UX Designer at Stanbic IBTC

Job ID: 64406
Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Job Sector: Banking
Work Arrangement: Fully Office Based

Job Purpose

• Work with the business to design cutting-edge custom applications that will allow our meet business to stay ahead of the competition and achieve its strategic goals.
• Ensure that all elements of the online user experience are optimized for improved usability, usefulness, and exceptional visual design.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Design structures and tools for systems that meet business needs, delivering the technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by the business and execution by the development team.
• Use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to build our product, write clean code, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
• Ensure that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
• Work very closely with Product team, Technology and other respective teams towards the goal of uniform UI/UX of product across different platforms: Android, iOS and Web.
• Create cutting-edge user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designs for mobile apps and other digital solutions
• Design cutting-edge user-centric solutions for digital learning environments and apps
• Develop user-centric UX design deliverables using UX software such as InVision, Balsamiq, Axure, Sketch or Adobe Creative Suite.
• Design cutting-edge, impactful andS appealing UI designs
• Translate client requirements into high level designs, low fidelity mock-ups, wireframes, story boards, and screen flows and interactive prototypes
• Develop user stories and journeys
• Design, conduct, and document usability testing
• Research and analyse market, the users and the roadmap for the product
• Develop bespoke user experience designs based on individual client requirements
• Work closely with the development team to implement the designed solution
• Take accountability for the solutions design and overall quality of the development of all software solutions assigned to you
• Think out of the box to innovate platforms beyond industry trends
• Competitively position the user experience through activities that improve the usability, usefulness, and desirability.

Minimum Qualification and Experience

• First Degree
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in software development
• Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• One or more years of UX design experience.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must.
• Familiarity with design software and technologies (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop) is also required.
• Knowledge of front-end languages and libraries (Vue.js, HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
• Knowledge of back-end languages (Laravel, C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (PHP, Angular, React, Node.js)
• Familiarity with databases (MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (AWS, Google, Apache) and UI/UX design
• Experience developing web and mobile application