HR Architecture Lead — Compensation Tech (Remote UK)

Consult; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 66,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead end-to-end job architecture projects for HR and compensation technology clients. You will own discovery through design and delivery, guiding data analysis, workshops, and AI-generated content to ensure accurate, defensible architectures.

Remote work is UK-based with a 3-month initial engagement and a 40-hour week. The role requires strong stakeholder management, hands-on experience with job evaluation and levelling, and the ability to translate

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing or significantly contributing to job architectures across elements including job families, levelling structures, titling, skills frameworks and role content.
• Experience leading workshops and facilitating sessions with HR and senior stakeholders, with the ability to hold a room, manage conflicting inputs, and reach defensible decisions.
• Experience scoping, planning and leading customer engagements or internal HR transformation projects.
• Thorough knowledge of how job architecture links to related processes (e.g. pay equity) with a proven ability to advise customers directly on how design choices achieve their goals and impact downstream HR processes.
• Comprehensive understanding of job evaluation and its uses (e.g. levelling, pay equity, benchmarking, career frameworks), with substantial hands‑on experience applying at least one recognised methodology.
• Great customer and stakeholder management skills – confident leading senior customer relationships, understanding customers’ needs and communicating solutions and recommendations.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, with the ability to break down complexity and translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights.
• Excellent analytical and Excel skills, with confidence in (and enthusiasm for) using AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end job architecture projects from discovery through design, solution build and delivery, acting as the consulting lead to customers.
• Work closely with the Senior Project Manager to align delivery plans and milestones for customer engagements.
• Using our methodology to analyse and interpret customer data (e.g. organisational structure, job descriptions, headcount) and translate this into job architecture design decisions.
• Leading on the design and delivery of customer discovery, including tailoring content and facilitating workshops to surface requirements to feed into clear, defensible architecture decisions.
• Synthesising discovery outputs, data analysis and subject‑matter expertise into architecture designs that are fit‑for‑purpose and hold up against a rigorous job architecture methodology.
• Installing levelling structures using our levelling framework: evaluating customer roles, calibrating boundaries and ensuring consistent, defensible level definitions across the architecture.
• Presenting architecture designs and recommendations to senior customer stakeholders, including articulating the rationale behind design decisions and handling challenge with confidence.
• Overseeing AI content generation and skills assignment by defining inputs and requirements, and quality‑assuring outputs for accuracy and alignment with customer‑specific frameworks and requirements.

Skills

Job architecture design

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Data interpretation

Excel

AI tools proficiency

Tools

AI content generation tools

Job description

Consult is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead end-to-end job architecture projects for HR and compensation technology clients. You will own discovery through design and delivery, guiding data analysis, workshops, and AI-generated content to ensure accurate, defensible architectures.

Remote work is UK-based with a 3-month initial engagement and a 40-hour week. The role requires strong stakeholder management, hands-on experience with job evaluation and levelling, and the ability to translate