Senior Consultant - Job Architecture

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

Senior Consultant (HR & Compensation Technology SaaS)

Daily rate: up to £600 (outside IR35)

Location: remote. Candidates must be based in the UK.

Contract Duration: This is a full-time consultancy engagement for an initial period of three months, with the potential for extension, subject to business requirements. The engagement is based on a flexible 40-hour working week, worked Monday to Friday. The specific working pattern will be agreed to meet business and client requirements.

Job Purpose

The Senior Consultant role is a customer-facing, hands‑on role that requires demonstrable expertise in job architecture design (e.g. job families, levelling structures, titling). You will own the full customer delivery lifecycle: scoping the engagement, interpreting customer data, running discovery with customer stakeholders, making and defending design decisions, and overseeing AI-generated profile content through to delivery‑ready quality. You’ll work closely with colleagues in Customer Success to ensure a smooth path to customer delivery, platform adoption and measurable outcomes.

As a Senior Consultant within our Customer Success team, you will be responsible for:

• Leading end-to-end job architecture projects from discovery through design, solution build and delivery, acting as the consulting lead to customers.
• Working 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.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Demonstrable 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.

You will also have:

• A proactive, self‑starter mindset, comfortable working at pace and with ambiguity, and able to iterate quickly to keep delivery on track.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills to convey complex decisions and outcomes simply.
• Excitement about HR technology and AI and about joining a fast‑growth start‑up where everything is constantly evolving.

Working with us

Even as a Senior Consultant, working with us on an interim basis, aligning with our values and ways of working is essential.

Start‑up life is not for everyone! To really thrive with us you will be 'Start‑up ready'. You are naturally proactive, open to change, have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, happy to go beyond your brief, enjoy working at pace and are comfortable with ambiguity.

And finally, you will really resonate with our values:

Customer Focus

: we are obsessive about delivering value and reducing complexity for customers

Collaboratio

n: we’re all about the team - collaborating, supporting and recognising everyone’s contributions

Openness & Honesty

: we are open, honest, and straight‑talking with each other and our customers

Authenticity & Humility

: we bring our whole selves to work, and we have the humility and self‑honesty to admit when we are wrong