Solution Architect

About the role

What you’ll do

• Understand customer business challenges, qualify opportunities, and identify suitable technology outcomes with customers and sales teams.
• Lead technical responses to public and private sector bids, proposals, and tenders, bringing together requirements, designs, and customer presentations.
• Design secure, resilient, commercially viable solutions across telecommunications, connectivity, unified communications, or computing infrastructure.
• Coordinate technical, security, service, and commercial specialists to meet customer requirements.
• Own architecture through opportunity, design, and delivery, managing risks and aligning with governance and Secure by Design principles.

Essential skills and experience

• Must hold or be eligible to achieve SC-level Security Clearance.
• Proven bid and presales solution development for public or private sector tenders, including requirements analysis, solution development, technical writing, and presentations.
• Practical design experience in at least one area: telecommunications/connectivity; unified communications/collaboration; or on-premises, cloud-hosted, or hybrid computing infrastructure.
• Ability to translate business, operational, and technical requirements into secure, deliverable, commercially viable architecture and bring contributors together.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in Defence, Government, Critical National Infrastructure, or another highly regulated environment; knowledge of secure interconnection, network security, or boundary protection.
• Understanding of Secure by Design, security assurance, risk management, or NCSC guidance; experience with technology roadmaps, transition strategies, or architectural plans.
• Knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering or Defence architecture frameworks; relevant TOGAF, CISSP, CCNP/CCIE, Juniper, Fortinet, AWS, or Azure certification.
• Current or previous Security Check clearance is useful but is not essential at application stage.

Benefits

• Benefits include a 10% on-target annual bonus, 25 days’ holiday, and access to a 24/7 online private GP for the employee and immediate family.
• The package includes paid carers leave, enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, discounted EE and BT products, a pension scheme, and holiday purchase.
• Optional additional benefits include healthcare, dental, and gym memberships.