Solution Architect - (All Levels)
$65,000–$75,000 year
HybridBristol, 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. 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. Identify, assess, and manage technical risks across the solution and programme lifecycle. Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance. Salary ranges from £65,000 to £75,000 for mid-level roles, with senior compensation tailored to scope and experience.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- More specialised depth in AI, Data Science or Machine Learning
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