Title: Solution Architect
Location: Bristol / Chippenham (UK)
Salary: £70,000-£80,000 + benefits + 10% bonus
Security Requirement: Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (minimum 5 years UK residency)
What You'll Actually Do
- Customer-facing solution architecture
- Work with customers to understand requirements.
- Design secure technical solutions.
- Present recommendations and architecture designs.
- Pre-sales and bid support
- Support sales engagements.
- Contribute to public and private sector bids.
- Produce technical proposals and bid responses.
- Technical leadership
- Own end-to-end solution architecture.
- Guide delivery teams.
- Ensure solutions follow governance and security standards.
- Defence and secure environments
- Design systems for sensitive government and defence programmes.
- Ensure "secure by design" principles are followed.
Core Skills They're Looking For High Priority
- Solution architecture experience
- Enterprise networking and telecommunications
- Cloud technologies
- Cyber security fundamentals
- Stakeholder management
- Bid/proposal writing
- Requirements gathering
- Risk and dependency management
- Technical documentation
Particularly Valuable
- Defence sector experience
- Secure networks and boundary security
- Service provider environments
- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.)
- Architecture governance
- TOGAF or similar architecture frameworks
Ideal Candidate Profile
You would likely be a strong match if you have experience as:
- Solution Architect
- Network Architect
- Technical Architect
- Enterprise Architect
- Senior Pre-Sales Consultant
- Lead Infrastructure Architect
- Defence ICT Architect
Tech stack
Aruba, MPLS, Cisco WAN, and Juniper
Especially if you've worked with:
- Telecoms providers
- Defence contractors
- Government customers
- Secure or classified environments