Consultant - Systems & Integration

Deliver structured systems and integration workstreams, supporting system implementation and integration design to enable scalable, connected environments.

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

Deliver systems and integration workstreams, combining hands-on analysis with structured consulting and stakeholder engagement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver system implementation and integration workstreams
• Capture and define system and integration requirements
• Support integration design (APIs, middleware, data flows)
• Map and align processes with system design
• Facilitate workshops and engage business and technical stakeholders
• Support testing, defect management and go-live preparation
• Maintain governance (risks, issues, documentation)
• Contribute to internal tools, methods and continuous improvement

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?

Build your consulting and technical capability across major system and integration programmes, with clear progression and exposure to modern architectures.

This role sits at the Consultant level within PACT's consulting career pathway (Analyst → Consultant → Senior Consultant → Lead → Principal), with increasing ownership of delivery, stakeholders and outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience in system implementation or integration projects
• Understanding of APIs, integrations and system interactions
• Experience capturing requirements and translating into solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work across business and technical stakeholders
• Strong communication and documentation skills

• Higher education or student systems experience
• Exposure to integration platforms or middleware
• Consultancy or project-based delivery experience