Senior UX Architect

Overview

Senior UX Architect – Waterloo, Hybrid Working – Full Time – Fixed Term Contract (12 Months) – Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The Senior UX Architect plays a central role in shaping and delivering user experiences that are intuitive, inclusive, and aligned to both customer needs and business goals. Reporting into the Senior UX Manager, this role is responsible for managing the end-to-end UX design process across key digital journeys, translating insight and requirements into user-centered design solutions that improve the customer experience, and drive value to the business.

As a champion of best-practice design and customer-led thinking, the Senior UX Architect works closely with cross-functional teams across digital, product, content, and development to ensure experiences are consistent, effective, and continually optimised. The role combines delivering hands-on UX methods with design oversight and mentoring, helping to drive quality, consistency, and innovation across everything we create.

The Senior UX Architect also supports the wider UX leadership team by contributing to team planning, design standards, and the evolution of our UX maturity, making this a key role in elevating our overall customer experience.

Senior UX Architect – Waterloo, Hybrid Working – Full Time – Fixed Term Contract (12 Months) – Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The Senior UX Architect plays a central role in shaping and delivering user experiences that are intuitive, inclusive, and aligned to both customer needs and business goals. Reporting into the Senior UX Manager, this role is responsible for managing the end-to-end UX design process across key digital journeys, translating insight and requirements into user-centered design solutions that improve the customer experience, and drive value to the business.

As a champion of best-practice design and customer-led thinking, the Senior UX Architect works closely with cross-functional teams across digital, product, content, and development to ensure experiences are consistent, effective, and continually optimised. The role combines delivering hands-on UX methods with design oversight and mentoring, helping to drive quality, consistency, and innovation across everything we create.

The Senior UX Architect also supports the wider UX leadership team by contributing to team planning, design standards, and the evolution of our UX maturity, making this a key role in elevating our overall customer experience.

• Own the end-to-end UX design process across specific digital journeys—translating insight, business requirements, and customer needs into effective, user-centred solutions.
• Create and deliver UX outputs such as journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and interaction designs, ensuring solutions are intuitive, inclusive, and accessible.
• Collaborate closely with squads, product managers, UI designers, developers, content designers and analysts to shape experiences from concept to delivery.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data (e.g. user research, customer feedback, analytics) to inform and validate design decisions.
• Ensure UX best practices, design principles, and accessibility standards are consistently applied across your work.
• Present and communicate design ideas and rationale clearly to stakeholders, advocating for customer needs and user-first thinking.
• Support usability testing and continuous optimisation of digital experiences through iteration, A/B testing, and performance…