Senior Consultant – Police Technology and Systems
Closing Date for this role: 19th February 2026.
Location: UK (remote-first) with occasional travel to client sites and team meetups as required.
Contract: Permanent, full and part-time considered.
Basic salary(FTE): £70,000–£90,000 depending on experience.
Bonus: Discretionary, subject to company and individual performance.
The role
We are seeking a Senior Consultant with strong technology and systems experience to support our team’s problem diagnosis, options analysis and steering of changes with policing and public safety clients.
You will work alongside colleagues leading operational, delivery and change work, bringing technical judgement where systems, data, platforms and assurance constraints shape what is feasible. This role suits someone who can lead defined packages of work with limited direction, work credibly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and produce clear written outputs that hold up in real delivery environments.
What success looks like
Within the first 3 months, you will be able to:
Take ownership of defined technology and systems work within client assignments, producing outputs that are clear, useful and decision-ready.
Identify real constraints early (security, legacy, suppliers, operational risk), set out clear options and trade-offs, and steer stakeholders towards a workable approach.
Rapidly build a working understanding of the relevant policing technology landscape, including key systems, interfaces, constraints and decision points, and use it to shape specific advice.
Responsibilities
Provide technical consulting input to policing and public safety assignments, including technology discovery, options, feasibility and assurance support.
Translate technical detail into clear outputs for non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders and operational audiences.
Engage credibly with client architects, engineers, security and assurance functions, and delivery teams to understand constraints and shape workable approaches.
Contribute to architecture and systems thinking activities (as-is landscapes, integration considerations, data flows, high-level target concepts, and technical risks).
Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, assumptions and constraints, including security, data handling, service continuity and supplier realities.
Produce high-quality written outputs and presentations (technical briefings, options papers, architecture summaries, delivery considerations, governance inputs).
Support bids and proposals, owning or contributing to technical sections where required.
Contribute to cross-company peer review, independent assessment and shared learning.
Essential experience and skills
5+ years’ experience in a technology-focused role within consulting (or equivalent advisory delivery role), with evidence of leading work.
Experience delivering in the UK public sector or comparable regulated/assured environments.
Broad technical grounding with depth in at least one area, such as:
IT architecture (applications, integration, platforms)
Cloud and hosting models
Data platforms, analytics and information management
Software or systems engineering
Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and to write structured, decision-ready outputs.
Sound judgement and comfort operating in ambiguous delivery environments, including working within constraints rather than proposing idealised solutions.
Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and engaging stakeholders across technical, operational and leadership communities.
Desirable
Experience working with UK policing, public safety or closely adjacent justice/government organisations.
Familiarity with common constraints in policing and government delivery (security, assurance, data handling, legacy estates, supplier ecosystems, operational risk).
Exposure to live operational or mission-critical systems and service continuity considerations.
Experience contributing to operating model work where technology, process and people changes must align.
Understanding of systems thinking approaches (for example, treating policing capability as a system, mapping dependencies and outcomes across domains).
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