2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Engage UK Central Government customers to understand mission needs, business challenges, and transformation goals.
- Develop and lead differentiated, deliverable solution strategies for major public sector pursuits.
- Lead solution development from qualification through proposals, orals, contract award, and handover to delivery.
- Facilitate discovery workshops, architecture reviews, and solution design sessions.
- Assess solution feasibility, delivery risk, commercial viability, and strategic fit.
- Create solution narratives, value propositions, win themes, bid content, and architectural differentiators.
- Represent solutions in customer meetings, executive briefings, bid reviews, and orals.
- Coordinate capture, commercial, delivery, programme, and technical teams to produce coherent propositions.
- Contribute reusable solution patterns, proposition material, and thought leadership.
- Support transition from growth into delivery so commitments, risks, and design intent are understood.
Requirements
- Proven experience working with UK Central Government departments, agencies, or arm's-length bodies.
- Extensive UK experience developing successful solutions for UK Government contracts.
- Understanding of how public sector customers buy, govern, and deliver complex digital transformation programmes.
- Experience supporting competitive procurements, frameworks, bids, proposals, or capture activities.
- Current and valid UK Security Check (SC) clearance.
- Evidence of personally winning, shaping, or significantly improving strategic opportunities.
- Ability to balance customer outcomes, technical quality, delivery risk, cost, scope, differentiation, and commercial competitiveness.
- Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, writing, and presentation skills.
- Ability to orchestrate specialists across multiple technology domains and explain complex government solutions in plain business language.
- Experience shaping opportunities before formal procurement begins is desirable.
- Experience in consulting, systems integration, managed services, or complex technology delivery environments is desirable.
- Knowledge of public sector procurement frameworks, competitive bid processes, AI-enabled transformation, data-driven services, or platform modernisation is desirable.
- Azure, AWS, or TOGAF certifications are useful but not a substitute for relevant experience.
Benefits
- Contributory Pension Scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- 33 days of annual leave including public and privilege holidays.
- Flexible benefits including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays, and a cycle to work scheme.
- Flexi-time working and flexible work options from home, the office, or customer sites.
- Regular travel across the UK is required, with very occasional travel to the United States.
- Career development support including technical academies, career rotations, and career development plans.
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.