Senior solution architect Work, Jobs in Pontypridd, Rct (with Salaries)

Test Lead
Transport for Wales —Pontypridd
- Up to £55,000 a year
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Analysis skills
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Lead Data Architect
Transport for Wales —Pontypridd
- £65,000 a year
4d
Agile Delivery Manager
Intellectual Property Office —Newport
- £47,766 - £58,850 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
4d
Project /Senior Architect
AtkinsRéalis —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Time management
13d
Service Owner Head of Data Design and Build
Office for National Statistics —Newport
- £68,199 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Agile
5d
Solutions Architect
Sierra Nevada Corporation Mission Systems UK,LTD —Saint Athan
- £55,513 - £83,270 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Master's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Senior Data Engineer and Data Manager
Welsh Revenue Authority —Cardiff
- £47,675 - £56,445 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- No experience needed
- Analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Language training provided
11d
Cyber Security Operations Engineer
Transport for Wales —Pontypridd
- Up to £50,000 a year
7d
Senior DevOps Engineer (Salesforce)
OFGEM —Cardiff
- £52,397 - £62,699 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Salesforce
- DevOps
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
Senior Rail Architect - WSP Architecture
WSP —Cardiff
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Mentoring
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Hodge Bank —Cardiff
- £64,000 - £69,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Computer Science
- Quality control
- Store discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
Quick apply
Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Building Services
Stantec —Cardiff
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
Quantum Cryptography Architect
Starling —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Communication skills
- Banking
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Quick apply
1d
Security Architect
Amentum —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Employee assistance programme
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AECOM —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Communication skills

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Test Lead

Transport for Wales -
Pontypridd

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Job details

Fixed term contract
Up to £55,000 a year
4 days ago

Qualifications

Technical troubleshooting
Computer Science
Stakeholder collaboration
Project planning
IT team management
Stakeholder liaison
Project quality assurance
Engineering
Performance testing
Functional testing
Analysis skills
Risk management
User acceptance testing
Recruiting
Multidisciplinary collaboration
Information technology team management
Communication skills
Functional quality control testing
Analytics
SDLC
Welsh

Full job description

Please note: this is a 24 month fixed-term contract

The Role

The successful candidate will lead, plan, and coordinate all quality assurance activities across the UNO, CRM (D365), and Middleware Projects. The role is responsible for establishing clear testing approaches designing and maintaining an effective automation framework and ensuring thorough manual and automated test coverage across all components and integrations. The role includes managing Test Analysts, coordinating the team's day to day activities and promoting consistent testing standards, documentation, and processes across the UNO project, ensuring alignment with the wider test team. They will be responsible for maintaining reliable test data and regression packs, ensuring that automated and manual testing meets the project requirements.

Role responsibilities

Lead the development and implementation of the annual testing plan for the UNO programme, ensuring that test strategy, scope, and methods align with wider organisational priorities and long‑term digital transformation objectives.
Define and govern programme‑wide testing standards, procedures, and automation frameworks, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance across manual, automated, performance, and non‑functional testing activities.
Provide specialist technical leadership across CRM (D365), middleware, web, mobile, data migration and API testing, advising senior stakeholders and supporting qualified professionals in resolving complex, multi‑system quality challenges.
Diagnose and resolve complex testing issues that require advanced analysis, engineering judgement, or innovation, ensuring that cross‑system defects are addressed effectively where no precedent exists.
Influence senior project stakeholders, product teams, and supplier partners on critical testing decisions, including test scope, risk acceptance, release readiness, and defect resolution priorities.
Manage the testing discipline for the UNO programme, setting performance expectations, allocating work, developing capability, and supporting recruitment and succession planning for Test Analysts.
Oversee and optimise the use of testing resources, including test environments, tooling, data sets, automation assets, and budgetary allocations, providing expert advice on resource investment and utilisation to support programme delivery.
Timely and accurate reporting of testing progress, risks, metrics, and quality outcomes to programme leadership, enabling informed decision‑making and proactive risk management.
Build robust collaborative relationships with Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Developers, Project Managers, and Product Owners to ensure requirements are testable, technically sound, and aligned with agreed programme outcomes.
Drive continuous improvement of TfW's testing capability by identifying opportunities to enhance tooling, automation throughput, performance testing maturity, and testing governance across the Digital Services directorate.

Who we're looking for

A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related IT discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience Leading test teams in IT/Digital/Systems- planning and delivery, including functional and end user testing.
Experience of working in software development life cycles such as Waterfall, Agile.
Experience in writing test artefacts such as test case and defects.
Experience with testing tools.
A high standard of written and verbal communication, and the ability to collaborate and build effective working relations with people at all levels across the organisation and outside.
Excellent planning and organisation skills, (e.g. project planning and/or dealing with delays or blockers).
Proven analytical skills and the ability to demonstrate good attention to detail through work.
Experience in implementing Automation and performance testing.

Welsh Language Skills

While not essential for this role, Welsh language skills would make a great addition to your application.

TfW support anyone who wants to learn Welsh or improve their skills. We offer online learning, classroom courses and funding attendance at local community courses.

Equal Opportunities

We're changing the way the transport industry looks. By celebrating and embracing differences, we're building a workforce that represents Wales. We need talented people from all backgrounds and cultures to bring their perspectives and experiences. Diverse teams make better decisions and drive innovation. Join us in transforming the way Wales travels."

Who we are

Transport for Wales is changing the way Wales travels, making sustainable transport the first choice. We're building a multimodal integrated transport network called the T Network, making it easier for people to travel by train, bus, walking, wheeling and cycling.

Next steps

See attached Job Description for further details and how to apply. If you want to find out more about what we're doing in Wales, see our Annual Report.

We're a Disability Confident Leader. Let us know about any reasonable adjustments you may need in the recruitment process and as part of the role if you are successful.

This advert will close at 23:59 on the day of the application closing date stated above. However, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive enough applications. We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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