Design Technologist - (aka Technical Designer)

We’re hiring on behalf of one of our leading clients in the digital transformation space! They’re looking for a Design Technologist who can bridge the gap between design and development—bringing high-fidelity UI concepts to life through production-ready code.

Role Overview

A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers—supporting both to build consistent, high-quality digital products across the organisation. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator, ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.

Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.

Responsibilities

•Collaborate with designers to translate hight-fidelity UI designs into interactive, coded UI components.

•Build and maintain design-system components (React, Vue, Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.

•Develop accessible, performant, responsive interfaces (WCAG standards, internationalisation).

•Document design patterns, assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.

•Document Design System components in Storybook.

•Work within agile methodologies, participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.

•Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component, define and integrate design tokens and APIs.

Requirements & Skills

Technical Skills

•HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), JavaScript (ES6+) – solid foundation

•Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/Vue/Angular)

•Build/design tooling: Storybook, Styleguidist, Figma‑to‑code plugins, Babel, Webpack

•Understanding of component architecture: theming, tokens, props API

•Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1), responsive design, mobile-first

•Version control (GitHub)

•Agile/scrum experience

Design & UX Skills

•Proficient in Figma

•Strong sense of interaction, visual, and motion design with attention to detail

•UX fundamentals: user flows, accessibility, inclusive design

•Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus

Soft Skills

•Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities

•Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail

•Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate

•Self-starter, proactive in system improvements

Experience & Qualifications

•2–5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar

•Experience working on or contributing to a design system

•Bachelor’s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred

Category

Specific Skills & Experience

1. Languages - HTML5, CSS3/SASS, JS (ES6+)
2. Frameworks - React, Vue, or Angular
3. Design Tools - Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite
4. Prototyping - Storybook, prototypes to production level
5. UX/Accessibility - WCAG 2.x, inclusive/principled design
6. Collaboration - Agile, Git, design–dev hand-offs
7. Soft Skills - Communication, problem-solving, UX empathy