SC Cleared Service Designer

A leading digital consultancy is seeking an experienced Lead Service Designer to support a major UK government transformation programme. This role offers the opportunity to shape complex public services, working across policy, operations, technology, and user needs to design better outcomes for citizens and internal users.

The Role

As a Lead Service Designer, you will play a key role in understanding how services operate today and defining how they should evolve in the future. Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will map complex service ecosystems, uncover opportunities for improvement, and create evidence-based service designs that support strategic decision-making.

You'll engage regularly with senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, challenge assumptions constructively, and help organisations move towards more user-centred and effective services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead service design activity across large-scale public sector programmes.
• Map and analyse end-to-end services, including people, processes, policy, technology, and operational considerations.
• Create service blueprints, service maps, customer journeys, ecosystem maps, and future-state visions.
• Identify service challenges, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Translate research insights and stakeholder feedback into actionable recommendations.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, co-design sessions, and service reviews.
• Support the development of service strategies, transformation roadmaps, and future operating models.
• Collaborate closely with user researchers, product managers, business analysts, architects, delivery managers, and technical teams.
• Advocate for user-centred design principles and accessibility throughout service delivery.

What We're Looking ForEssential Experience*

• 5+ years' experience in Service Design or a related user-centred design discipline.
• Proven track record delivering complex public sector transformation programmes.
• Experience leading service design work independently within multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong expertise in end-to-end service design rather than solely digital product or UX design.
• Demonstrable experience producing high-quality service maps, blueprints, customer journeys, and strategic service artefacts.
• Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Experience working across Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live delivery phases.
• Strong understanding of accessibility, inclusive design, and evidence-based decision making.
• Active SC Clearance and eligibility to work in the UK.

Desirable Experience

• Central Government experience.
• Knowledge of Government Service Standards and user-centred design frameworks.
• Experience supporting major transformation programmes and service assessments.
• Experience designing both operational and citizen-facing services.
• Background working in highly regulated or security-sensitive environments.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.