At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement software architectures for impactful projects in a collaborative team.
- Company: Join Opencast, a growing tech consultancy focused on user-centred solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible hours, 25 days holiday, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Supportive environment with a focus on diversity and career growth.
- Why this job: Grow your architectural skills while making a difference in government and healthcare sectors.
- Qualifications: Experience in technical architecture and familiarity with architecture frameworks.
The predicted salary is between 70001 - 80000 £ per year.
Overview
Ready to grow your architectural expertise in a supportive team?
Do you want to work alongside expert architects and grow your skills in a collaborative environment?
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 Technical Architect you'll contribute to software development projects, ensuring that the applications are efficient, performant and user-friendly.
You'll broaden your experience while connecting with experts across the practice, gaining and sharing insights, and benefitting from opportunities to grow your career.
Responsibilities
- The role includes defining and implementing software architectures using patterns and best-practice approaches to define detailed designs that form part of large enterprise-scale applications to meet our clients\' business outcomes.
- Collaborate with colleagues and take solutions through architecture governance and contribute to the evolution of assurance processes.
- Lead and guide delivery teams to bring designs to life, develop and implement technical designs for modern enterprise-scale applications, and utilise or define effective patterns and technologies.
- Show ownership of designs and their evolution and transition into service; apply excellent working knowledge of software development, programming languages, modelling languages and methodologies.
- Identify and adhere to architecture quality attributes and non-functional requirements; evaluate and introduce innovative patterns, approaches and technologies into project teams.
- Break down architectures into implemented components, delivering business outcomes and addressing stakeholder needs.
Essential experience and qualifications
- You don’t need to have held the title of technical architect before, but you should demonstrate experience of technical architecture.
- Experience with architecture frameworks (e. g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture).
- Experience of delivering digital services and the GDS toolkit for the UK Government is useful for many projects and essential for some contractor roles.
- Familiarity with activities and concepts such as the Service Manual, Agile delivery phases, and Service Assessments is valuable.
- A solid understanding of the benefits of user-centred design and accessibility standards.
- Good understanding of Dev Ops and in-life service management.
- Additional expectations
- Build strong relationships with both business and technical stakeholders to provide technical direction and build consensus for technical designs.
- Take a methodical and considered approach to problem solving and adopt a collaborative, consultative leadership style.
- Coach and mentor fellow team members and stay up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application.
- During interviews, describe your approach to architecture, delivery of business outcomes, and stakeholder engagement.
- If successful, you may be asked to develop and present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.
- Travel and security
As attendance at sites is a routine part of the role and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.
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.
Salary and benefits
- Senior consultant salary range: £70,001-£80,000 per annum.
- A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus.
- Flexible working hours aligned to client commitments, 25 days' holiday, and 3 annual "life happens" days to support unexpected situations.
- Wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a supportive team.
- Where you’ll work
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.
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
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We\'re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
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