Solution Architect - Senior Consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 are a growing tech consultancy that creates user‐centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role involves taking end‐to‐end ownership of solutions for our clients, aligning them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance. You will create solution blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs. You will effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.

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.

We will want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You do not need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.

In your CV and interview, please show how you:

• 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 will 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.

If you are successful in the first interview, we will ask you back 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 do not have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.

Senior consultant salary range: £70,001‐£90,000.

• Competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
• Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.
• People to support you every step of the way.

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

We will not discriminate on age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. We will consider applicants from overseas.

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

Want to know more? Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com.