Job Role: UX/UI Developer
A UX engineer has a dual-natured role – or should we say a split-half personality? It's a fascinating blend of two distinct yet complementary personalities: The empathetic artist and the craftsman.
The Empathetic Artist: This side of you is driven by intuition, creativity, and a deep understanding of human behavior. This is the designer you possess, possessing an innate sense of aesthetics, usability, and user-centered design principles. You act as an observer, keenly aware of user needs, pain points, and motivations. You are a researcher, employing user testing and data analysis to inform design decisions. You are a storyteller, crafting intuitive user journeys that are both engaging and effective. You are a collaborator, working closely with your team and stakeholders to ensure alignment and a shared vision. This is the half that defines what and why of the user experience you want to provide.
The Craftsman: This side in you is all about precision, logic, and technical mastery. This is the engineer in you, deeply familiar with the intricacies of code, the nuances of front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular), and the power of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You are a problem-solver, adept at translating design concepts into functional, scalable, and performant code. You are detail-oriented, ensuring pixel-perfect execution and meticulous attention to code quality.
You are a builder, constructing the technical backbone that supports the user experience. You thrive on the challenge of optimizing performance, ensuring responsiveness across devices, and integrating seamlessly with back-end systems. This is the half that ensures the how of user experience that you envision.
You actively shape our digital products that enable and guide our experts and consultants delivering first-class application modernization projects to our clients. You listen and understand their challenges and identify product opportunities that rapidly turn into tangible user interfaces, prototype, test, refine, and gradually bring into a mature product solution. It's the seamless blend of your two personalities which makes you a magician – a true UX
Engineer blending creative vision with technical proficiency, translating abstract problems and ideas into concrete, functional realities
Work you’ll do
- You are building a enabling/in-house product for our experts and consultants to deliver first-class Application Modernization projects to our clients.
- You work in cross-functional teams with PM, design, engineering, and subject-matter-expert colleagues to design, build, and extend product solutions.
- You combine your UX/UI design and engineering skills to ideate and execute a compelling product design to solve user problems.
- You exchange with users to understand their needs and how well your ideas solve their problems.
- You build prototypes to help you, and your team learn as much and as fast as possible, iterate until you find certainty to build a production ready version.
- You are innovating with AI in the product and design for AI-driven user experiences.
- You design and build reusable interaction patterns and experiences with a standardized design system.
- You resolve technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
- You co-drive continuous improvement, learning, and innovation with your colleagues in a UX guild.
The team
Delivering innovative, client-centric solutions, the AppMod TruNorth product team at Deloitte Consulting LLP is dedicated to transforming how organizations modernize and manage their application portfolios. Our mission is to empower clients to accelerate digital transformation, optimize legacy systems, and unlock new business value through advanced application modernization strategies.
AppMod TruNorth is a cutting-edge platform designed to streamline the journey from legacy to cloud-native architectures. Leveraging deep industry expertise and the latest advancements in cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps, our team develops, enhances, and supports a robust suite of tools that help clients reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, and future-proof their technology investments.
Operating in a dynamic, agile environment, the AppMod TruNorth team collaborates closely with stakeholders across industries—including financial services, healthcare, retail, and more—to ensure our product evolves in step with market needs and client priorities. We harness a blend of commercial and open-source technologies, continuously innovating to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.
From ideation to deployment and ongoing support, our team is committed to delivering exceptional product experiences and measurable business outcomes. By combining Deloitte’s industry insights with a relentless focus on product excellence, AppMod TruNorth is helping organizations confidently navigate their modernization journeys and achieve their strategic goals.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelors/master's in media design, media development, communication design, interaction design, computer science and media, or equivalent
- 5+ years of frontend development and UX/UI design experience; or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Proficiency in Figma for designing and prototyping: This is crucial for our current workflows and ensures candidates can hit the ground running with our existing tools
- Strong passion for digital products and the urge to make a positive impact with a hands-on mindset
- Creative problem-solving skills: Curious about the problem and strong desire to build a solution
- Strong design skills: User interfaces, user interactions, data visualizations (e.g., large interactive graphs/diagrams), UX/UI patterns
- Strong sense of UX: Ability to think from an application modernization expert and consultant perspective
- Strong sense for quality, you are seeing the beauty in both pixel perfection and clean code
- Skilled in different creative techniques such as design sprints, design thinking
- Proficient in different user research and evaluation techniques (e.g., interviews, surveys, shadowing, usability tests)
- Ability to balance speed with perfectionism and when to lean more towards one side; getting it into real users’ hands is your goal
- Proficient with different prototyping techniques and tools (e.g., story boards, wireframes, lo-fi sketches, hi-fi mocks, click prototypes, functional code prototypes)
- Expert-level skills with Angular
- Familiarity with diagramming libraries
- Good understanding about application modernization domain and willingness to dig deeper (e.g., technical and business challenges associated with legacy systems and their modernization to contemporary architectures)
- Good understanding about AI and ML (e.g., GenAI, Agentic AI) and willingness to dig deep Strong understanding of web standards, CSS-based design, and foundational understanding of web accessibility
- Good understanding of responsive web design
- Good knowledge of browser and server communication (REST, GraphQL, HTTPS, Cookies, Request Headers, APIs)
- Good understanding of micro-service and micro-frontend architecture
- Fluent in English, verbal and written – we are a global team; fluent in German is a plus
- Product- and user-centric mindset
- Growth mindset and intrinsic motivation to learn and improve