3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Shape credible technical and delivery solutions for major bids and pre-sales opportunities.
- Provide architectural oversight and assurance for solution designs and delivery partners.
- Engage customers, partners, and senior stakeholders while resolving complex architectural challenges.
- Produce technical content for bids, proposals, white papers, and presentations.
- Translate user requirements into 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 and the translation of bid-stage intent into engineering plans.
- Support governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts for consistent delivery.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience as a Senior Solution Architect, Chief Engineer, or equivalent in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Broad technical understanding across systems architecture, hosting, integration, networking, and service design.
- Ability to integrate specialist input while retaining ownership of the overall solution.
- Experience engaging externally with customers, partners, or programme stakeholders.
- 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 technical ideas, risks, and trade-offs to mixed audiences.
- Eligibility for SC clearance.
- Pre-sales, bid, capture, client-side assurance, governance, secure or regulated environment experience is desirable.
- Familiarity with service governance, live service assurance models, architecture frameworks, and large-scale system patterns is desirable.
- Experience working alongside data, security, platform, AI, or machine-learning specialists is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid working in London with frequent travel to Bristol.
- Flexible working model, typically averaging three days in the office each week.
- Part-time working requirements and workplace adjustments can be discussed.
- Inclusive workplace with support for applicants with disabilities and health conditions.
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.