Future Opportunity - Solutions Architect Senior Consultant

Opencast; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

7% employer pension

Share options

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

Life happens days

Job summary

Opencast is seeking a Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant to own end-to-end client solutions, aligning them with business outcomes, technology strategy, and governance.

You’ll create architecture blueprints for business, data, application, and technology views, and communicate through governance boards and delivery teams to bring solutions to life.

The role requires regular UK travel and on-site work, with compliance to security, quality, and customer policies across client engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Solutions Architect with stakeholder engagement.
• Strong background in software development, design, and delivery.
• Ability to guide delivery teams and ensure successful implementations.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end client solutions aligned to business outcomes.
• Create architecture blueprints for business, data, application, and technology views.
• Communicate through governance boards and delivery teams to realise solutions.
• Ensure work complies with policies and security standards.

Skills

Stakeholder relationships

Software development

Delivery leadership

Agile methodologies

Architecture frameworks

Job description

Future Opportunity: Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant

Future Opportunity: Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant

Team:

Location:

Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Commitment:

The role

You’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.

You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.

You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.

Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

This role involves weekly on-site work, and you’ll be required to travel regularly to client locations across the UK. We’re looking for people who value in-person collaboration, enjoy building strong relationships, and are passionate about delivering solutions that make a real difference for our clients.

Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.

SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants must have UK citizenship and have lived continuously in the UK for at least the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process. We are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying. We’re looking to welcome new team members for multiple roles fromautumn month onward.

To succeed in this role, you’ll have experience as a Solutions Architect and be able to demonstrate, with tangible examples, that you can:

• Built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views
• A strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles
• Enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively
• Worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps
• A good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages

In addition to solutions architect skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:

• Demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients
• Take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
• Take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams
• Keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application
• Deliver business outcomes and engage stakeholders

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:

• Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from 25 days’ holiday and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We provide wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work

This role requires regular on-site attendance at our HQ, hub offices, and client sites, as well as the ability to work from home. Applicants must be able to travel to offices and client sites across the UK as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential for fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

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