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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Check out this brand new role!
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 fast-growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions for our clients in government and business. We work to make life better through the power of people and technology.
The role
You’ll use your experience of 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.
You’ll collaborate with colleagues and take your solutions through architecture governance and generally contribute to the evolution of the assurance processes.
You’ll use your expertise to confidently lead and guide delivery teams to bring your design to life.
Essential experience
You don’t need to have had the job title of technical architect before – but we will want you to demonstrate experience of technical architecture.
In your CV and at interview, we’ll ask you to show how you:
• develop and implement technical designs for modern enterprise-scale applications, utilising or defining effective patterns and technologies
• show ownership of designs and their evolution and transition into service
• have an excellent working knowledge of software development, programming languages, modelling languages and methodologies and know how to apply them
• identify and adhere to architecture quality attributes and/or non-functional requirements
• evaluate and introduce innovative new patterns, approaches and technologies into project teams
• can break down architectures into implemented components, utilising effective patterns and technologies that deliver business outcomes and address stakeholder needs
As well as technical architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
If selected for interview, we’ll ask you to show that you:
• build strong relationships with both business and technical stakeholders to provide technical direction and build consensus for your technical designs
• take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
• take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams
• coach and mentor fellow team members
• keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application
At the interview, we’ll ask you to describe how you approach architecture, deliver business outcomes and engage stakeholders. If you’re successful in your first interview, we’ll ask you back to develop and present a proposal from a case study and problem statement.
Desirable experience
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)
• Experience of delivering digital services and the GDS toolkit for the UK Government would be useful for many of our projects. It will be valuable (and essential for some contractor roles) if you are familiar with these activities and concepts:
o the Service Manual
o Agile delivery phases and
o Service Assessments
• A solid understanding of the benefit of user-centred design and understanding accessibility standards
• Good understanding of DevOps and in-life service management
• Security Clearance is necessary for some of our roles, so we’ll be interested in whether you’re eligible for the Security Check (SC) level of clearance
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
Senior consultant salary range: £65,000-£85,000
What our offer includes
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.
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 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 include you
We won’t discriminate on age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. We’ll consider applicants from overseas.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Role tech stack
TOGAF
Life at
Opencast
Culture overview
At Opencast, our culture is built around purpose, collaboration and growth.
We bring together people, technology and values to create a supportive, inclusive workplace where individuals are trusted to contribute, learn and make a difference. Our teams work collaboratively to deliver high-quality digital services with real-world impact, supported by hybrid ways of working, strong communities and a focus on wellbeing. With opportunities for learning, mentoring and pro-bono work, Opencast is a place where your ideas are valued, your career can develop and the work you do genuinely matters.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Health Cash Plan
Home office allowance
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Clubs & Meetups
Free Coffee
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Team Building Days
Location
Tech at
Opencast
Leadership
David Sarginson
Director of Architecture & Engineering Capability
Tech overview
At Opencast, we use technology to create meaningful outcomes. Our work spans the full digital delivery lifecycle:
• User-centred design: Research, service design, interaction and content design to ensure solutions meet real user needs.
• Architecture: Designing scalable, secure and sustainable technical strategies that guide end-to-end delivery.
• Software and digital delivery: Building high-quality, reliable software that solves complex business problems.
• DevOps, cloud and platform engineering: Optimising platforms, automating pipelines and managing cloud infrastructure to support resilient services.
• Data and analytics: Turning data into actionable insights to drive better decisions and improve services.
Our approach balances technical excellence with purpose, ensuring every project we deliver is user-focused, sustainable and impactful.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure
Java
Node.js
MySQL
Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)
Spring Boot
Spring Data
Spring
Ruby on rails
Spring MVC
Adobe XD
Scalatra
Scala
Splunk
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