Job description
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Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious programmes undertaken to keep our country safe?
We are proud of the impact we have with our Defence & Security clients, the strength of our relationships, and the variety of our skills and expertise that we bring to help them achieve their mission.
We’re growing our teams across all of Consulting. If you are cleared to SC or DV level, or willing and eligible to obtain this, and want to grow your career in this sector, we are very keen to hear from you.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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Service designers at Deloitte Digital are strategic thinkers with a keen appreciation for the power of human centred design. We play a critical role in reshaping our client’s businesses, by critically investigating all aspects of a challenge, reimagining the user experience for multiple user groups, and developing blueprints that articulate how these experiences will be delivered and fulfilled by the entire organisation - people, process and technology.
As a Senior Service Designer, you will be responsible for understanding the holistic service experience we are trying to create and working out how to bring each individual element of an organisation together in order to make it real. This will involve balancing the potentially competing demands of user experience and operational efficiency; strategic vision and commercial reality. During both design and delivery, you will also work with specialists from across our design practice - Strategists, Researchers, UX Designers, Visual Designers and more.
Your role will include:
- Scoping and planning Service Design projects, with the support and review of your team lead
- Leading research and design activities across the design process, including:
- Qualitative and quantitative user research
- Gathering and analysing relevant operational data
- Developing archetypes, journey maps and service blueprints
- Running codesign sessions with users to develop solution
- Creating low fidelity prototypes to test service concepts for a variety of digital and non-digital touchpoints, and gathering feedback
- Thinking strategically, to assess how service concepts meet strategic / commercial / policy goals, and fit within relevant constraints
- Considering accessibility and ethical factors throughout research and design
- Advocating for design-led service transformation, and the design process
- Actively building professional relationships with colleagues and clients to increase your network and broaden your knowledge base within design
- Supporting the Service Design team, and the wider XD Studio, in the creation of client-ready presentations and proposals to secure new work
- Actively contributing to the wider XD studio, by participating and leading community events and activities outside of project work
- Contributing to the development of our XD Studio’s design methods and tools
- Working in diverse teams with an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution.
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All applicants must be willing and eligible to apply and obtain UK security clearance to Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level, if not holding an existing clearance.
Overall, you’re an ideas person and problem solver as well as a hands-on doer - that’s important. We know it takes a mix of people to do amazing work, so you’ll love collaborating with and learning from people with different skills, backgrounds and perspectives. If you have an interesting or unusual mix of skills yourself, even better. You’ll be an ace at what you do, with a passion for digital, keen business instincts and an eye for emerging trends and behaviours.
Essential:
- Experience applying a range of design skillsets (research, ideation, prototyping) at the level of an end-to-end service and experience
- An interest in the Defence and Security sector within Government
- The ability to understand and articulate how an end-to-end user experience is supported and enabled by people, process, and technology
- A passion for learning about the world, human behaviour, and the motivations that lie beneath the surface
- The practised ability to tie observations from research to recommendations and actions
- Comfort with ambiguity and experimentation
- The ability to work in dynamic conditions, and transition quickly between collaborative and individual work
- Strong planning, organisation and documentation skills
- An interest in multiple design disciplines and approaches, and the ability to quickly dive into a new domain or process
- A collaborative nature, drawing motivation from effective teamwork
Desirable:
- A varied background in one or more areas such as strategy, user research, business analysis, visual design, creative or front-end development
- Experience of successful client delivery and engagement
- Strong conceptual and information design skills
- Experience in designing, leading and facilitating workshops or co-creation sessions
- An understanding of the political, commercial and technology challenges faced by the Central Government and Defence & Security sector, and how digital technologies and delivery approaches can help solve them
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Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
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“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."
- Dan, Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: The home office of this role is London, Bristol or Manchester
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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