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Information Architect, JPMorgan Chase
Dec 13 04
Source: CHI-Jobs
We're looking for an Information Architect for our Intranet Services Group in JPMorgan Chase. This position can be located either in Chicago, Illinois or Newark, Delaware.
Please apply through the JPMorgan Chase careers site at this link:
http://jpmchase.recruitsoft.com/servlets/CareerSection?art_ip_action=FlowDispatcher&ctx=1&flowTypeNo=13&pageSeq=2&art_servlet_language=en&reqNo=245640&csNo=2
Description
A global financial powerhouse, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is an industry leader. With 100,000 employees in over 50 countries, we draw on a full range of capabilities to provide integrated financial solutions for institutions and individuals worldwide. What does this mean for you, the job seeker? Opportunity! Our broad range of financial services activities, from investment banking to retail banking to e-finance, offer an exceptional range of career options for individuals. If you're interested in working in an environment where leadership, excellence, initiative and diversity are among our core values, then explore the opportunities at JPMorgan Chase.
The User Experience team is part of the Intranet Services development group, which builds Web-based sites and applications for lines of business and corporate groups throughout the firm. Our mission is to ensure that the end user is represented in the development of intranet and extranet sites and applications, and to advocate a consistent and positive user experience, where information and functionality is not only useful, but also findable.
As a valuable member of this team, your primary role as an Information Architect is to act as a subject matter expert on methods and best practices in creating the information architecture (IA) portion of the user experience for intranet and extranet sites or applications. You will also act as an advocate for IA standards and best practices to other development groups in the firm. The following tasks would be within the scope of your
responsibilities:
- Assist the User Experience team in defining the user flow, process flow, site content, and navigational structures for intranet sites and applications, developing content diagrams, narrative structures, clickstream analysis, schematic layouts, navigational prototypes, page level interaction and functionality, etc.
- Develop information architectures and taxonomies for web based applications and sites.
Integrate the appropriate IA related tasks and methods into the standard development life cycle
- Provide input, planning and support for user research, usability test plans and analyze site metrics.
- Prototype navigation models and interaction designs for demonstration to clients.
- Develop training on IA for the team and the enterprise.
- Partner with Marketing & Communications in creation of a corporate intranet taxonomy.
- Lead the effort to improve Intranet Services' content management tools so they reflect IA best practices
Qualifications
- Degree in Technical Communications, Library or Information Sciences, Information Architecture, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Human Factors, or other related discipline
- 2-3 years experience as an information architect or experience designer - including complex interaction design
- Experience in Information Architecture for an Intranet or a large enterprise is a plus
- Demonstrate direct involvement in the creation of artifacts such as content matrices/mapping.
- Experience observing user research and translating user research into design decisions
- Have a high level or proficiency in Visio, Word, Excel and Windows
- Jim Ross
User-Centered Designer
Intranet Services, JPMorgan Chase