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Solutions Architect - Senior Consultant

United Kingdom, Newcastle 70000.00 - 90000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted February 07, 2026
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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.

Job Responsibility

  • Take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance
  • Create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs
  • 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

Requirements

  • Must currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet 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
  • Experience of solutions architecture
  • Built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views
  • 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
  • Good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages
  • 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

Nice to have

Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)

What we offer

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

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