Chief Solutions Architect

Frontier Resourcing; England; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology staffing agency is seeking a senior pre-sales technologist to support their Defence business. This role primarily focuses on collaborating with defence clients to shape solutions across secure IT and cyber services. Candidates should have significant experience in the defence sector and the ability to build technical trust quickly. The position is predominantly remote but may require occasional travel to client sites in England. Competitive salary and opportunities for growth are available.

Qualifications

• Experience with defence stakeholders and SIs/defence integrators.
• Broad understanding of secure IT components: networking, cloud, hosting.
• Military background and exposure to cyber operations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engage with industry partners and MOD.
• Run workshops for technical discovery and service design.
• Shape solutions for secure IT and data transformation.
• Support bids and proposals with delivery teams.
• Act as the technical authority during early capture.

Skills

Defence domain experience

Technical discovery

Cyber security

Data and AI

Managed services

Job description

Catalysing IT & Engineering Delivery in Defence, National Security and Industry

Clearance: SC minimum; DV strongly preferred

Location: Predominantly Remote with occasional travel to either South / Midlands offices/customer sites.

Overview

Our client’s Defence business is scaling its digital services footprint and requires a senior pre‑sales technologist with genuine defence domain experience. You’ll partner with the BD lead, shape mission‑aligned solutions, and drive services‑led growth across secure IT, cyber, data and digital transformation programmes.

What You’ll Do

• Engage with Defence Digital, DE&S, MOD and StratCom, and industry primes where partnering on projects
• Run technical discovery, problem framing, and service design workshops
• Shape solutions across a range of services, including:
  • Secure networks & hosting
  • Data / AI / analytics
  • Cyber security & resilience
  • Managed services & ITSM/SIAM models
• Support bids and proposals with delivery and commercial teams
• Act as the technical authority during early capture
• Build credible technical trust quickly with defence stakeholders
• Broad secure IT understanding: networking, cloud, hosting, cyber, data, enterprise services
• Experience and networks within SIs/defence integrators (e.g. DXC, Leidos, Sopra, CGI, BAE, Atos etc.)

Nice to Have

• Military background + commercial experience
• Exposure to cyber operations / defensive cyber

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