Solution Architect

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £75.8k - £99.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Engage customers early to understand mission needs, business challenges and transformation goals • Develop compelling, deliverable and differentiated solution strategies for major public sector pursuits • Lead solution development from early qualification through proposal, orals and handover to delivery • Create solution narratives, value propositions, win themes and architectural differentiators • Facilitate discovery workshops, architecture reviews and solution design sessions • Translate complex customer problems into practical solutions across Data & Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Security, AI/ML, IT Service Management, Systems Integration and Digital Modernisation • Assess solution feasibility, delivery risk, commercial viability and strategic fit during qualification • Work with delivery and programme teams to ensure proposed solutions are credible, cost-aware and achievable • Represent the solution in customer meetings, executive briefings, bid reviews and orals • Contribute reusable solution patterns, proposition material and thought leadership • Support handover from growth into delivery so commitments, risks and design intent are understood • Move between accounts, opportunities and sectors according to business priorities • Support customer meetings, Leidos workshops and other pursuit activities

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience working with UK Central Government departments, agencies or arm's-length bodies • Understanding of how UK public sector customers buy, govern and deliver complex digital transformation programmes • Experience with departments such as HMRC, DWP, Defra, GDS, Cabinet Office or similar • Experience supporting competitive procurements, frameworks, bids, proposals or capture activities • Cloud or architecture certifications such as Azure, AWS or TOGAF are useful but not a substitute for relevant experience • Ability to create confidence with customers, strengthen capture strategy and improve major bids • Evidence of personal contribution to winning, shaping or significantly improving strategic opportunities • Understanding of balancing customer outcomes, technical quality, delivery risk and commercial competitiveness • Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management and executive engagement skills • Current and valid UK Security Check (SC) clearance • Extensive experience working in the UK and developing successful solutions for UK Government contracts • Ability to write clearly and contribute high-quality bid, proposal and presentation content • Ability to orchestrate specialists effectively • Experience in consulting, systems integration, managed services or complex technology delivery environments would be helpful • Knowledge of public sector procurement frameworks and competitive bid processes would be advantageous • Knowledge of AI-enabled transformation, data-driven services and platform modernisation would be advantageous • Ability to travel regularly across the UK, with very occasional travel to the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme • Private Medical Insurance • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays) • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!) • Flexi-Time Working • Flexible working from home, the office or customer sites • Technical academies, career rotations and career development plans