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Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant (Contract)
£500
/day - £600
/day
Multiple locations
Hybrid
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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 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.
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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