Lead Systems & Integration Consultant

Provide senior leadership across systems and integration delivery, combining technical expertise, architecture design, advisory consulting and programme oversight to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

About PACT Solutions:

PACT Solutions is a specialist management and digital transformation consultancy working exclusively with higher education institutions across the UK.

We help universities solve complex challenges across strategy, student records, data, change and delivery. As we grow, we want to strengthen the way we run the business internally while protecting the quality, culture and partner focus that have made us successful.

The Role

Lead systems and integration engagements across delivery and advisory contexts, shaping architecture, guiding implementation and ensuring alignment to partner needs.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead systems and integration delivery across complex programmes
• Define system architecture, integration patterns and technical approaches
• Lead advisory and discovery work on system landscapes and integration challenges
• Ensure alignment between systems, integrations and programme delivery
• Oversee delivery, testing, cutover and implementation
• Engage senior stakeholders and represent PACT with vendors and partners
• Line manage and develop consultants within the capability
• Contribute to capability development, tools and methods
• Support account growth, proposals and pre-sales activity

Our values sit at the heart of everything we do:

Partnership: We work with you, not for you. 

Integrity: We do the right thing, even when it requires difficult conversations.  

Inquisitive: We dig deeper to uncover what will truly deliver value.  

Transformative: We focus on outcomes that create lasting, measurable improvement.  

Why join PACT?

Lead complex systems and integration work across major transformation programmes while shaping technical capability, delivery approaches and future growth.

This role sits at the Lead level within PACT's consulting career pathway (Analyst → Consultant → Senior Consultant → Lead → Principal), with responsibility for leading complex engagements, developing people and shaping capability.

Requirements

• Strong experience in systems implementation and integration delivery
• Experience leading complex system or integration programmes
• Strong understanding of architecture, APIs and integration patterns
• Experience in advisory and discovery engagements
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience leading and developing teams

• Higher education or enterprise systems experience (SIS, ERP, CRM)
• Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks
• Consultancy or transformation experience