Principal Architect – Technical

Overview

In this Principal Architect – Technical role, you will shape IT strategies for SCC’s clients, delivering architecture and governance guidance to support business goals. You’ll partner with Sales to drive strategic consultancy opportunities and manage engagements across verticals. You’ll translate challenges into technology roadmaps, collaborate with delivery teams, and develop consultant propositions. A security clearance eligibility is required, underscoring the role’s trust and impact. This is a chance to influence transformation at Europe’s largest privately-owned IT company.

Pay / Benefits

• solid basic and company benefits
• broad flexible benefits scheme
• 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
• hybrid working with core hours
• career development and lifelong learning opportunities
• large company benefits

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to translate business challenges into technology requirements (often pre-RFP)
• Advise on technology choices and act as the single presales contact, coordinating with Business Units
• Develop customer proposals, statements of work, cost models, and proof of concept engagements
• Contribute to bid responses as part of a bid team
• Deliver consultancy outputs (strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as-is/to-be, high-level architectures)
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure smooth handover of solutions and approaches
• Create and evolve SCC’s consultancy propositions and collateral
• Promote best practices, standards, and governance to support client transformation and maturity

Key requirements

• Experience in a professional services architecture role with senior-level presales/client consulting exposure
• Ability to present technical solutions to diverse audiences up to board level
• Broad knowledge of end-to-end business operating models and at least one industry sector
• Broad knowledge across IT services, technology domains, and governance practices
• Experience across programme/project management, delivery, architecture, and service management
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to engage in direct customer conversations

• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Proactive and confident phone-based outreach
• Collaborative and client-focused mindset
• End-to-end architecture knowledge
• Governance and best-practice frameworks
• Presales and consultancy delivery

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