Senior Quality Engineering Solution Architect

Senior Quality Engineering Solution Architect Roq

Location: Hybrid / England, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: IT | Test & QA
Salary: Competitive salary

Senior Quality Engineering Solution Architect

Location: Roq is a remote-first company; however, as a consultancy, we may require you to work on-site at any client location across the country from time-to-time

Contract: Permanent

Roq is changing the way the world thinks about quality. We want people to think and act differently about how quality is embedded into organisations so they can deliver complex technology change with confidence.

As a consultancy business, our work is varied and impactful. You’ll have the opportunity to partner with a range of clients, navigate different industries, and collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups. No two engagements are the same, and you’ll be encouraged to bring fresh thinking, adaptability, and curiosity to every project. You may occasionally travel to client sites, strengthening relationships and seeing the real-world impact of your work.

Everything we do is driven by our brilliant people and our core values:
Straight Talking, Passionate, Excellence, and Commitment
. If you want to make a real impact, grow your career, and work with a team that cares, Roq could be the place for you.

Lead Roq's Quality Engineering strategy and market positioning. You'll define our QE proposition portfolio, set strategic direction with clients and leadership, and establish how we differentiate in an AI-driven market. Own our intellectual foundation, challenge conventional thinking, and be the trusted advisor shaping quality engineering across the organisation and our clients.

Thought Leadership & Proposition Ownership

• Own and set the strategic direction for Roq’s Quality Engineering propositions, ensuring our offerings lead the market in relevance, differentiation and commercial viability
• Horizon-scan for emerging technologies — including agentic AI, AI-assisted and data-driven quality approaches — evaluating their strategic fit and maturing promising ideas into repeatable solutions
• Shape and own Roq’s external thought leadership narrative, representing our point of view on how AI, data and emerging technology are transforming Quality Engineering
• Build and sustain the communities, forums and market presence that keep Roq visible, credible and connected

Quality Engineering Strategy & Solution Architecture

• Define the strategic direction for how Quality Engineering is structured and embedded across client organisations — spanning practice design, tooling, data, governance and operating model
• Assess QE maturity and organisational capability to identify strategic gaps and shape clear, pragmatic target-state architectures and roadmaps
• Grow Roq’s internal QE capability, setting standards for tools and ways of working and developing the architectural depth of the wider team

Strategic Advisory & Client Influence

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, shaping Quality Engineering strategy, investment and organisational direction
• Lead strategic engagements — from assessment and vision-setting through to operating model design — ensuring advice translates into lasting, client-owned change
• Bring together deep technical expertise and commercial awareness to influence decisions at board and programme level with credibility and clarity
• Tangible contribution to Roq’s commercial growth through proposition ownership, strategic client relationships, pre-sales influence and trusted adviser engagements that generate pipeline and long-term client value

Strong belief in QE as a strategic enabler. Enthusiastic about innovation, emerging tech, and market-led design. Driven to create meaningful impact.

Proven track record designing and leading complex QE solutions bines consultancy with technical credibility, architectural rigor, and practical delivery.

Commitment

Continuous improvement mindset. Dedicated to developing people, evolving propositions, and keeping offerings relevant and differentiated.

Straight Talking

Clear, pragmatic communicator who challenges…