About Albany Beck
Albany Beck are a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional career and personal development.
Responsible For:
* Maintain a delivery-orientated approach to developing applications and their supporting software and data infrastructure. Manage releases and support existing systems.
* Working independently and as part of a team to design, develop, test, and implement web-based applications
* Building on and suggesting best practices
* Mentoring other members in the department where appropriate, providing guidance and knowledge transfer
* Delivering well-structured, maintainable, and fully tested systems to time and budget
* Following risk-based project management, IT development methodologies, corporate information security, and corporate UI/UX standards to ensure successful project delivery with strict adherence to coding practices and production of all necessary documentation
* Initiating and implementing productivity and quality initiatives
* Managing and coordinating software releases through to production
Key Responsibilities:
* Proven track record delivering digital web products end-to-end
* Strong portfolio demonstrating UX thinking, interaction design, and polished UI craft
* Experience with discovery and definition activities such as workshops, journey mapping, and problem framing
* Hands-on experience creating user flows, wireframes, and clickable prototypes
* Strong knowledge of component-based UI design and scalable design systems
* Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and CSS preprocessors like SASS
* Excellent knowledge of React.js
* Excellent knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript
* Experience translating Figma designs into responsive, accessible, production-quality interfaces
* Good knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and cross-browser compatibility
* Experience in front-end testing frameworks like Jest and React Testing Library
* Ability to work closely with product and engineering partners to balance user value and delivery feasibility
Ideal Experience
* Experience designing digital products in onboarding / banking space
* Experience running usability testing and using findings to improve designs
* Familiarity with analytics-informed UX improvements
* Experience working with Git and IDEs like IntelliJ and VS Code
* Experience with Node.js
Essential Skills / Competencies
* Strong interpersonal, communication, planning, organising, and project delivery skills
* Pragmatic / lean / agile development techniques
* Comfortable operating in an agile development team, self-starting and motivated
* Strong UX problem-solving and interaction design capability
* High attention to detail in visual design, layout, and component behaviour
* Good written and verbal communication skills
* Takes ownership and pride in delivered work
* Strong deadline management and clear communication of delays or slippages
Ideal Skills / Competencies
* Experience facilitating design workshops and design critiques
* Experience mentoring others on UX and UI best practices
* Confidence influencing product direction through user-centred design thinking