Principal Consultant
Role Principal Consultant (Architecture)
Location Hybrid 2-3 days a week in the office or on a client site
Salary £140k + plus bonus, travel allowance, health insurance, pension, share options
Clearance Eligibility for SC Clearance
About the Role
We are looking for Principal Consultants that come from an Architecture background, ideally with experience designing digital products, APIs, and end-to-end systems. This is for someone who wants to move beyond pure delivery into a role that combines technical leadership with shaping and influencing client work.
You’ll be expected to play an active role in shaping and winning work. Working with clients to identify opportunities, structuring problems, and contributing to proposals and solution design. This is not a quota-carrying role, but commercial awareness and client influence are key.
This is not a traditional delivery role, you’ll remain close to architecture, but also play a key role in defining problems, shaping solutions, and contributing to the growth of client engagements.
What You’ll Be Doing
Design/Architecture
Design and deliver end-to-end architecture solutions for digital products, enterprise platforms, and complex integration-heavy systems. This includes defining scalable, secure, and high-performance architectures using modern design patterns such as APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
You’ll be responsible for translating business and technical requirements into robust architectural blueprints, ensuring alignment with best practices and long term strategic goals. This involves evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies, defining system interactions, and ensuring seamless integration across internal and external services.
You will also consider key non functional requirements such as scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability, while guiding development teams through implementation and ensuring architectural consistency across the delivery lifecycle.
Client Delivery & Leadership
- Lead the delivery of end-to-end transformation programmes
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders (including C-suite)
- Design and deliver innovative, high-impact technology solutions
- Guide clients through complex technical and business challenges
Business Development
- Build and manage senior client relationships
- Contribute to and lead proposals, bids, and sales activities
- Support the development of new propositions and service offerings
- Drive pipeline growth and revenue generation
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop consulting teams
- Provide coaching and support to junior & senior consultants
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture
- Contribute to capability and practice development
What We’re Looking For
Experience
- Proven experience in a consulting or client-facing leadership role
- Strong track record delivering complex transformation programmes
- Experience leading architecture, engineering, or digital delivery teams
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders
Core Skills
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Programme leadership and delivery
- Commercial awareness and business acumen
Technical / Domain Expertise (depending on specialism)
- Solution Architecture
- Integration and digital transformation
- Distributed systems, including Microservices.
Why Join
- Work in small, high-calibre teams rather an large delivery structures.
- Stay close to architecture while gaining exposure to shaping and influencing client engagements
- Clear progression toward Director and Partner, with strong commercial upside (base £140k+ plus bonus)
- Take on visible, client facing roles where you influence both technical direction and what work gets completed.
- Work on complex, real-world transformation programmes where architecture plays a central role
Apply Now
If you’re an experienced consultant looking to step into a leadership role with real impact, we’d we'd love to hear from you.