Senior Quality Engineering Solution Architect in Bolton

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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. We welcome applicants who live anywhere in the United Kingdom.

Contract: Permanent

Why Join Roq? 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.

About the Role: 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.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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.

What We're Looking For:

• Passionate: Strong belief in QE as a strategic enabler. Enthusiastic about innovation, emerging tech, and market-led design. Driven to create meaningful impact.
• Excellence: Proven track record designing and leading complex QE solutions at scale. Combines 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 constructively, influences at all levels, and provides objective, outcomes-focused advice.

Skills:

• Essential: Significant experience in a senior Quality Engineering, architecture or technical leadership role, ideally within a consultancy or transformation environment. Deep expertise in Quality Engineering strategy, architecture and practice design with a track record of shaping how organisations embed quality at a structural level, not just a project level. Experience applying AI across Quality Engineering including AI-enabled testing, testing AI and data-driven systems with the ability to assess emerging approaches pragmatically and translate them into propositions. Strong understanding of modern technology landscapes, tooling ecosystems and delivery models, with the ability to advise on how quality should be structured within them. Proven ability to own and evolve proposition portfolios, aligning solutions to market trends, emerging technologies and commercial opportunity. Confident and credible at senior levels able to shape strategy, influence investment decisions and guide complex organisational thinking with clarity and authority. Strong commercial awareness, with experience supporting pre-sales, proposals and pipeline development. Excellent communication skills able to articulate complex ideas compellingly to technical, commercial and executive audiences.
• Desirable: Experience applying Quality Engineering in large-scale, complex or regulated environments. Familiarity with formal architecture frameworks, applied pragmatically. Experience working across adjacent domains such as data, cloud, platform or integration. Active contribution to industry forums, communities or thought leadership, and experience developing senior QE talent.

What Success Looks Like: Someone who owns the strategic direction of Quality Engineering at Roq setting the thought leadership agenda, evolving our propositions ahead of the market, and advising clients at the level where real organisational change happens. A person who brings the credibility, curiosity and conviction to challenge conventional thinking, shape how our clients invest in quality, and lead Roq's Quality Engineering capability into its next chapter.

The Roq Benefits Package: We genuinely invest in our people, in their wellbeing, careers, and life outside of work. Here's a snapshot of what you can look forward to when you join us:

• Career Growth & Development: Career Support Manager to guide your journey. Priority for internal promotions - we love to promote from within, helping you climb the career ladder! Skills, Accelerated, Learning and Development (SALaD) Days inspiring training days for all employees. Ongoing training, coaching and professional development.
• Health, Wellbeing & Financial Support: Perkbox discounts, vouchers, and amazing freebies. Healthcare Cash Plan get support for a variety of healthcare costs including money towards dentistry, eyecare and discounted gym memberships. Employee Assistance Programme. Enhanced sick pay increasing with service. Enhanced maternity & paternity pay. Life assurance & income protection. Enhanced pension (Roq pays up to 6%).
• Work-Life Balance & Time Off: Enhanced annual leave rising to 30 with service. Buy & sell annual leave scheme. Community Day (extra day to volunteer). Anniversary Awards worth up to £750. Regular company events and socials.

These benefits apply to eligible permanent employees ask us for full details.