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• Be adventurous. Bring a vision. Make an impact. Rely on empathy. Nurture collaboration. Stay transparent. Be bold and generous in all you do.
• A world of talent, one team. We are Accenture Song. We work together with designers and clients across the globe to make a world of difference.
• Our UX Researchers uncover user needs through research, develop deep insights, generate concepts and craft how people will interact with the products and services we design.
• We are looking for Senior and Intermediate UX Researchers to work with two of the leading global software platforms.
• Senior UX Researcher

8-10 years of relevant industry experience

Requirements

• Collaborate/partner with and support team of UX researchers.
• Contribute to, or help lead, key research activities including international usability studies, surveys, and other methods of research.
• Partner closely with team members in person and remote office locations.
• Partner closely with researchers to ensure research plans are executed in a timely fashion.
• Collaborate with product team researchers to define and prioritize user experience research questions.
• Contribute to creating research summaries/presentations and ensure effective communication of research findings.
• Contribute to developing UX Research Plan for a specific study in partnership with the UX Team.
• 1-2 years-experience leading product focused UX research.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills -- including ability to distil findings into concise insights and engage and excite stakeholders about research.
• Interest in product development and connecting research findings with new product ideas.
• Strong understanding of strengths and shortcomings of multiple different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.
• A desire to move quickly and innovate on the way we do research.
• Intermediate UX Researcher
• 4-8 years of relevant industry experience

Requirements

• Preparing user research activities (working with the recruiters to schedule study sessions, set up the usability lab, etc.).
• Planning, observing and moderating usability testing sessions and interviews.
• Administering interviews.
• Taking notes during usability study sessions.
• Analysing qualitative data.
• Communicating findings from the study to the team.
• Assistance in creating presentations (including creating graphs, highlight videos, slide decks, etc.).
• Detail-oriented and ability to work fairly independently on a variety of tasks.
• Interest in general research and user research methods.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Can prioritize time between multiple projects, and adapt to changing schedules and different tasks.
• Technical aptitude, familiarity with basic graphic and video editing tools preferred.
• Ability to learn quickly and comfortable with multi-tasking.
   

Qualifications

• Senior UX Researcher: MA/MS Degree in: in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Information Science or related education and/or experience.
• Intermediate UX Researcher: B.A./B.S. (completed) or M.A/M.S. (in progress or completed) in Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Engineering, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Anthropology, Information Sciences, or a related education and/or experience.

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We’re looking for a Data Engineer to work side-by-side with our data science team to help implement in-house developed algorithms and provide software engineering expertise and support as required to the wider organisation.

Your new role:

• Provide technical input to system and software architecture design activities.
• Work closely with the data science team to develop a robust interface framework for the algorithms.
• Produce technical documentation covering software requirements, design specifications and test specifications.
• Develop high quality maintainable software features in accordance with the software process.
• Develop and implement sustainable developer test strategies to verify and validate software features.
• Investigate and fix issues in new and existing software/features.
• Produce prototype software features to demonstrate concepts and ideas.
• Support software platform deployments.
• Produce/update software process documentation.
• Investigate and deploy new software development tools to support software development.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong academic background i.e. bachelor’s level in degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar.
• System level thinker who can quickly understand and solve complex technical problems.
• Demonstrable commercial big data engineering experience.
• Experience of applying object-oriented design principles.
• Strong Scala and Python experience.
• Strong experience with Spark.
• Strong experience with Cassandra.
• Keen to utilise up-to-date software development practices.
• Good communications skills, verbal and written.
• Self-starter, happy to work alone or as part of a team.
• It would be great if you had/ a desire to learn about:
• Experience with R scripting language.
• Experience of working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience of test driven development.
• Experience of developing and applying automated tests.
  Experience of utilising a continuous integration approach to software development.
• Experience of software containers e.g. Docker.
  Experience of working with mobile application developers and integrating mobile applications with web services.
• Experience of applying UML to describe software designs.
• Experience of integrating software and hardware.
• Comfortable working with different software processes.

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Technology is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Song and Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitating client process walkthroughs to understand business processes and alignment with solution functionality.
• Acting in a client facing role to determine business requirements.
• Identifying how the HCM solution can be best utilized to meet client requirements.
• Providing support to the interface workstream to understand business scenarios and integration between the solution and other applications.
• Supporting configuration, testing, training and change management workstreams.
• Project management or team lead of large SuccessFactors implementation
• Be the design lead of SuccessFactors implementations for the modules in your expertise
• Shape SuccessFactors solutions to help our clients solve complex situations
• Deliver also advisory services in broader technology-enabled business change (integrator selection, vendor selection, application studies, solution architecture, or program diagnostics and recovery)
• Deliver advisory services to the most innovative client organizations
• Building and maintaining client relationships Qualifications

Qualifications

• SuccessFactors Certified in 2 to 3 Modules
• Degree or Diploma in IT
• What skills & experience are we looking for?
• +5 Year experience in complex SuccessFactors / SAP HR implementations.
• +3 Experience in designing and/or implementing SuccessFactors (in lead roles).
• Certified in one or more SuccessFactors modules.
• Strong communication and leading skills.
• Willingness to travel.