Senior Solutions Architect

Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?

Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a supportive, collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on projects to open new opportunities?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Solution Architect, you’ll design strong but adaptable foundations for the people who use them – enabling robust, scalable and sustainable solutions. You’ll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefit ting from opportunities to grow your career.

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.

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it
.

Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years
, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

We’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.

• 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 Dev Ops.
• a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.

As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.

• 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.

In the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes, and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in the first interview, we’ll ask you to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.

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

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

If you have this experience, please show it on your CV and we can talk about it in the interview. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.

Senior consultant salary range: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum.

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days' holiday, and access to 3 annual 'life happens' days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

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