Solution Architect - (All Levels)
$65,000–$75,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Shape credible technical and delivery solutions for major bids and pre-sales opportunities, translating complex customer problems into coherent engineering approaches that can be costed, planned, and delivered. Provide senior architectural oversight and assurance of solution designs, holding delivery partners to account for technical decisions and ensuring alignment with agreed architectural principles. Engage confidently with customers, partners, and senior stakeholders to provide clear technical direction, resolve complex architectural challenges, and represent Rowden's technical authority in external conversations. Produce high-quality technical content for bids, proposals, white papers, and presentations while interpreting user requirements into architectural solutions that balance performance, risk, and delivery constraints. Investigate and assess hosting, integration, and platform options, and identify, assess, and manage technical risks across the solution and programme lifecycle. Work with technical SMEs and principal engineers to draw in specialist input while maintaining overall ownership of solution coherence and delivery approach. Support early contract mobilisation, helping delivery teams translate bid-stage solution intent into executable engineering plans, and support the development of governance frameworks, standards, and assurance artefacts to enable consistent and repeatable delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.
- Demonstrable experience operating 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, with the ability to integrate specialist input without losing ownership of the overall solution.
- Proven ability to engage externally with customers, partners, or programme stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
- Experience shaping viable technical and delivery approaches - not just describing technical concepts, but defining solutions that can be costed, planned, and delivered.
- Experience identifying and managing technical risks across the solution and programme lifecycle.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas, risks, and trade-offs to mixed audiences including engineers, commercial teams, and senior stakeholders.
- Eligibility for SC clearance.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in pre-sales, bid environments, or capture activity.
- Experience operating in a client-side assurance or governance role.
- Experience working in secure, regulated, or government environments.
- Familiarity with service governance and live service assurance models.
- Experience working alongside data, security, or platform architects, AI engineers or Machine Learning Engineers
- Knowledge of common architecture frameworks and patterns used in large-scale systems.
- We'd welcome applications from those with more specialised depth in AI, Data Science or Machine Learning.
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