Solution Architect

Overview

As a senior customer-facing Solution Architect, you will shape and win strategic opportunities for UK Central Government. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop differentiated solution strategies and lead solution development through qualification, proposal, and bid stages. You’ll translate complex government challenges into practical architectures across data, cloud, security, AI/ML and digital modernization. This role blends deep architectural credibility with government procurement know-how to deliver credible, cost-aware solutions that align with client missions.

Pay / Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave
• Flexible benefits
• Flexi-Time Working
• Cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Engage customers early to understand mission needs and transformation goals
• Develop compelling, deliverable solution strategies for major public sector pursuits
• Lead solution development from qualification through proposal, orals and handover to delivery
• Create clear solution narratives, value propositions and differentiators
• Facilitate discovery workshops, architecture reviews and sessions with customers and internal teams
• Translate complex problems into practical, differentiated solutions across multiple digital capabilities
• Assess solution feasibility, delivery risk, commercial viability and strategic fit during qualification
• Collaborate with delivery and programme teams to ensure proposals are credible and achievable
• Represent the solution in customer meetings, bid reviews and orals
• Contribute reusable solution patterns and thought leadership for future pursuits
• Support handover from growth into delivery highlighting commitments, risks and design intent

Key requirements

• Proven experience with UK Central Government departments or agencies
• Understanding of how UK public sector buys, governs and delivers digital transformation
• Experience supporting competitive procurements, frameworks, bids, proposals or capture activities
• Cloud or architecture certifications (Azure, AWS) are useful but not a substitute
• Ability to build customer trust, strengthen capture strategy and improve major bids
• Evidence of personal contribution to winning or shaping strategic opportunities
• Ability to balance customer outcomes, technical quality, delivery risk and commercial competitiveness
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management and executive engagement
• Current and valid UK Security Check (SC) clearance
• Extensive experience delivering for UK Government contracts

• Trust-building with customers
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Stakeholder management
• Solution architecture
• Data & Analytics
• Cloud

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