Creative Technology Lead

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Fjord has joined forces with The Dock. This is the new home for experimentation, co-creation and experiential design, and an exciting opportunity to put design doing at the heart of innovation.

Who are we?

We are a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, where designers, doctors, visionaries and makers are doing things that matter for people, places and robots. Located in the heart of the Dublin Docklands in a connected, state-of-the-art workspace designed for creativity, collaboration and fun.

Who are you?

You are a kick-ass Creative Technology Lead ready to join a fast-paced, growing innovation centre. You will operate across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time. You will thrive in an open and interactive working environment, which facilitates collaboration with colleagues, clients and ecosystem partners. Our experimentation culture, combined with a disruptive brief, will ensure that together we will make it count.

What You’ll Be Doing

Creative Technology is a critical function that helps to bring life to our design work, as quickly and tangibly as possible, with an early understanding on feasibility and technical implications. You will drive prototyping as an integral step in the process of conceptualizing, refining and finalizing a designed service or product. You are a craftsperson, capable of a two-way creative coding approach alongside other designer roles. Pair programming and pair design is the philosophy so cross-disciplinary understanding is essential. Working with evolving requirements and offering communication on functional suggestions to design is a responsibility of the creative technologists we require. You have pride in the quality of your code and are vocal in championing the best approaches, but also appreciate the need to think creatively.

Design Facing;

· Responsible for the quality and robustness of technical deliverables on each project.

· Be a hands-on technology expert, shaping the concept and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms.

· Have an inquisitive interest in the latest development techniques and libraries. Experience of constructing and developing on a technology stack that meets the needs of rapid prototyping, whilst also serving as the foundation for future development.

· Demonstrate the value of prototyping as an integral and regular step in the design process of conceptualizing, refining, and finalizing an inventive solution, service or product.

· Be comfortable with driving innovation from a technical point of view, pushing the boundaries of complex services and solutions that are simple, relevant, and human centered.

· Keep up to speed with new technology market trends.

Client Facing;

· Balance the client’s business objectives, and technical feasibility constraints whilst meeting the user experience objectives of the project. Be prepared to challenge requirements.

· Establish and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, clients, and key stakeholders.

· Work in partnership with the Project Lead to issue regular status reports and troubleshoot problem areas.

· Identify and alert the Project Lead to potential risks, and work with them to manage changes in scope and devise contingency plans.

· Define quality control requirements. Produce lean technical specification and API documentation.

· Team Facing:

· Take an active role in team activities, including design critique sessions, best practice initiatives, and social activities.

Other Requirements;

· Seek out opportunities for self-development.

· Effectively manage administration such as time reporting, expense submission etc.

· Engage with and work within changing multi-disciplinary teams.

· Develop and maintain open honest and trusting relationships.

· Continually strive to exceed client expectations.

· Communicate in a clear, consistent and transparent manner.

· Comply with Health and Safety policies and procedures.

· Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of equipment & materials provided.

Skills And Qualifications

· At least 6 + years relevant industry experience.

· In possession of a relevant degree or professional qualification(s).

· In-depth knowledge and experience in a relevant software engineering or web design discipline.

· Creating prototypes for platforms such as wearables, mobile, web, and TV.

· Experience of rapid prototyping, Agile development methodologies.

· Experience with web and mobile accessibility tools and features.

· Strong interaction design skills, and an aptitude for visual design.

· Strong knowledge of structuring web applications

· Ability to construct and deploy a back-end web service to support the needs of a front end application or service

· Experience of being accountable for code quality and project delivery

· Standards, package management, dependency understanding

· Demonstrate expertise in 3 or more of the following areas:

· Native and wearable app development with complex APIs and 3rd party SDKs

· Full stack web development

· Relational and/or NoSQL database development

· Data analysis, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch

· Mobile hardware integration such as BLE, accessory port, ADK

· Hardware prototyping using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and developing hardware/software solutions

· VR, AR, Kinect, NUI, or machine vision technologies.

Please note, as part of all Designer recruitment processes, we require a portfolio of your relevant work.

Please be sure to include a link to an online or downloadable portfolio on your CV, or, be sure to attach an additional document with a portfolio of your work, as part of your online application for this role.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. The Dock at Accenture is a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, as an accelerator for Accenture and our clients to unlock value. Launched in Sept 2015, the global innovation centre brings together top talent under three disciplines; designers, developers and domain experts with expertise in AI, IoT, digital marketing, cyber security, advanced analytics and tech development.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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