3 months ago
Bristol, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Shape credible technical and delivery solutions for major bids and pre-sales opportunities.
- Provide architectural oversight and assurance for solution designs and supplier-led programme delivery.
- Engage customers, partners, and senior stakeholders to provide technical direction and resolve architectural challenges.
- Produce technical content for bids, proposals, white papers, and presentations.
- Translate user requirements into architectural solutions balancing performance, risk, and delivery constraints.
- Assess hosting, integration, and platform options across complex environments.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate technical risks across the solution and programme lifecycle.
- Coordinate specialist input while retaining ownership of solution coherence and delivery approach.
- Support contract mobilisation, engineering planning, governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience as a Senior Solution Architect, Chief Engineer, or equivalent in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Broad technical understanding of systems architecture, hosting, integration, networking, and service design.
- Ability to integrate specialist input while maintaining ownership of the overall solution.
- Proven experience engaging customers, partners, or programme stakeholders externally.
- Experience defining technical and delivery approaches that can be costed, planned, and delivered.
- Experience identifying and managing technical risks across the solution and programme lifecycle.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical ideas, risks, and trade-offs to mixed audiences.
- Eligibility for SC security clearance.
- Desirable experience includes pre-sales, bids or capture activity; client-side assurance or governance; secure, regulated, or government environments; service governance; and large-scale architecture frameworks and patterns.
- Applications are welcomed from candidates with specialised depth in AI, Data Science, or Machine Learning.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working, typically averaging three days in the office each week, depending on the role.
- Flexible and part-time working arrangements and workplace adjustments can be discussed.
- Inclusive workplace support from a Disability Confident Committed company.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Rowden
Rowden builds mission-critical, real-time edge computing systems that turn advances in sensing, AI, and communications into operational capability in degraded or denied environments. It provides systems integration, software, and technology services to national security, defense, and critical industry customers, improving decision-making for frontline teams. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bristol, England, the privately held company operates over 20,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing facilities.