At a Glance
- Tasks: Design intuitive user experiences for a next-gen Defence Intelligence platform.
- Company: Join a leading organisation in Defence Intelligence with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, agile work environment, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
- Other info: Work onsite in London, 4 days a week, with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on mission-critical systems while enhancing user experience.
- Qualifications: Proven UX design experience in secure environments and strong collaboration skills.
Location: London (MOD site)
Working Pattern: 4 days per week onsite
Clearance: Current DV Security Clearance required
Background: MOD/Defence experience required
The Opportunity
We're looking for an experienced UX Designer to help shape the user experience for a next-generation Defence Intelligence platform. You'll work on complex, mission-critical systems that support operational decision-making, designing intuitive user experiences that simplify complex workflows while maintaining security, traceability and user trust. This is an opportunity to work alongside multidisciplinary teams delivering innovative digital capabilities within a highly secure environment.
About the Programme
This programme is delivering an AI-enabled Defence Intelligence capability designed to improve visibility of operational data, streamline workflows and support faster, more informed decision-making. Working within an agile delivery team, you'll help create user-centred experiences that integrate with existing Defence systems while supporting secure, cloud-native delivery and modern digital practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct user research with operational users, analysts, task managers and key stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops to understand current and future operational workflows.
- Create user journeys, service blueprints, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
- Design intuitive workflows supporting task management, collaboration, information sharing and feedback.
- Collaborate closely with Front End and Back End engineers to ensure designs are practical and deliverable.
- Develop and maintain consistent design patterns and component libraries.
- Support user testing, gather feedback and continuously improve designs.
- Translate complex operational requirements into clear, accessible user experiences.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven UX design experience within MOD, Defence, National Security or similarly secure environments.
- Strong user-centred design capability, including user research, synthesis, interaction design and prototyping.
- Experience working confidently with military, civilian and technical stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma or equivalent collaborative design tools.
- Experience designing workflow-driven applications, dashboards or operational systems.
- Strong understanding of accessibility, usability and inclusive design principles.
- Experience working within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams.
Desirable Experience
- Service Design experience within complex organisations.
- Human-centred design for secure or regulated environments.
- Experience designing intelligence, command-and-control or case management systems.
- Experience designing AI-assisted user experiences, explainability features and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Experience developing design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Knowledge of classified or accredited system delivery.
Mandatory Requirements
- Current DV Security Clearance.
- Ability to work onsite at an MOD location in London four days per week.
- Previous experience delivering within MOD, Defence, Defence Intelligence, Strategic Command or wider National Security organisations.
- Comfortable working with OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and classified material where authorised.
Ways of Working
- Agile delivery within a multidisciplinary team.
- Close collaboration with Defence stakeholders, Product, Delivery and Engineering teams.
- Secure-by-design approach with consideration for audit, traceability, access control and assurance.
- Focus on improving user experience while maintaining operational accountability and governance.
What We're Looking For
- Successful delivery within secure MOD or Defence environments.
- The ability to transform complex operational processes into intuitive user experiences.
- Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A practical understanding of agile delivery and user-centred design.
- Awareness of secure system delivery, accreditation considerations and operational governance.
Rate: £500-£540 per day (Outside IR35)
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