Senior Solutions Architect

Location: Bristol (Hybrid - 3 days per week in office)
Salary: £80,000 - £120,000 (DOE) + bonus / incentive scheme
Eligibility: Must be eligible for SC Clearance, Bonus if active clearance is held.

About the Role

You'll be part of a small team that works across a range of projects, mainly within the defence and public sector space. The role isn't about chasing sales or managing accounts; it's about helping customers understand their challenges, then working with our engineers and delivery teams to figure out how we can best solve them.

What You'll Be Doing

Getting involved early in customer discussions - helping shape problems, not just respond to them.
Defining solutions that bring together the right technology, delivery model and commercial approach.
Working across domains such as C4ISR, defence, and government technology programmes.
Identifying risks and challenges early and helping to structure delivery around them.
Working with technical specialists across compute, systems and software to ensure solutions are sound and achievable.
Providing technical credibility in customer meetings and supporting bid development.

What We're Looking For

This role would suit someone who's spent time in technically led environments - maybe as a systems engineer, solution architect or technical lead - and who enjoys working with customers and shaping work at an early stage.

We're open on seniority: we're interested in people with the right mindset and capability, not just those with a certain number of years' experience.

Required:

A good understanding of complex technical systems and how they fit together.
Experience working in or with MOD, government, or other complex organisations.
Confidence talking with customers, understanding their context and priorities.
The ability to bring together people, ideas and delivery plans to make things happen.
Eligibility for SC clearance (dual nationals considered depending on country).

Nice to have:

Experience in C4ISR or related domains.
Exposure to SaaS or product-led environments.
An interest in systems of systems and interoperability challenges.