Solution Architect - Senior Consultant at Opencast, UK Office/Remote, £500-£600 per day

Ready for a new challenge?

Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?

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 and business.

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.

Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be essential.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

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

In your CV and interview, please show how you have:

• 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.

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

In the interview, please show 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

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 back to present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.

Desirable experience

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.

Salary

£500-£600 per day (working inside IR35)

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

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

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.

We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.