2 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
