Modern Workplace Engineer

Methods Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Worldwide travel insurance

Retail and leisure discounts

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited in the United Kingdom seeks a senior technical presales leader to articulate capabilities, own complex Microsoft-based solutions, and drive technically elegant, commercially viable outcomes for customers.

You will construct cost models, lead workshops, manage risk, and collaborate with sales to present and finalize solutions while mentoring delivery teams. A proactive, self-starting, cross-functional expert is essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Results-oriented with ability to deliver organisational benefit.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively on projects and provide technical leadership.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills including problem solving.
• Effective design and proposal documentation skills.
• SC clearance or willingness to gain it.
• Microsoft expert-level exams and certifications.
• Subject matter expert exams and certifications.
• Several years in a customer-facing role delivering technology solutions based on Microsoft technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies with SME knowledge in agreed areas.
• Experience creating technical designs to deploy and implement without guidance.
• In-depth understanding of Microsoft Cloud Platform services, security and processes.
• Experience leading technical workshops and solutions across multiple technologies.
• Commercial awareness to create proposals and draft tenders.
• Significant pre-sales experience discussing solutions with customers.
• Team player with cross-team leadership experience.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to customers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Involve ourselves in initial customer engagements to articulate capabilities and shape customer strategy.
• Own the technical solution to meet customer specification and liaise with colleagues and partners.
• Construct cost models to support implementation and delivery of solutions.
• Own and manage risks in solution development and implementation.
• Author/review technical elements of proposals as required.
• Take the technical lead in presenting solutions to customers with the sales team.
• Provide technical support in contract negotiations and development.
• Ensure effective handover of solutions to delivery teams with programme managers.
• Develop and update technical solutions and capabilities with industry developments.
• Provide quality assurance of proposed/implemented solutions by others.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Pre-sales experience

Technical leadership

Solution design

Analytical thinking

Proposal documentation

SC clearance willingness

Microsoft technologies SME

Customer-facing delivery

Team leadership

Tools

Microsoft technologies

Cost modeling

Proposal writing tools

Job description

Salary: £70,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements

• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment
• Results-oriented, with the ability to produce products that deliver organisational benefit
• Proven ability to work collaboratively on projects and provide technical leadership
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills, including outside-the-box problem solving
• Effective design and proposal documentation skills
• SC clearance or willingness to gain it
• Microsoft expert-level exams and certifications
• Subject matter expert exams and certifications
• Several years in a customer-facing role delivering and supporting technology solutions based on Microsoft technologies
• In-depth knowledge and experience of various Microsoft technologies, with SME knowledge in agreed areas
• In-depth knowledge and experience of creating technical designs to deploy and implement without guidance
• In-depth understanding of Microsoft Cloud Platform, including services, security, capabilities, technology, applications, IT issues, best practice standards, methodologies and processes
• Experience leading technical workshops and solutions across multiple technologies
• Commercial awareness to create proposals and draft responses to tenders
• Significant pre-sales experience discussing solutions and technologies with customers
• Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions
• Experience presenting technical solutions to customers and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Involve ourselves in initial customer engagements to articulate our capabilities and help shape customer technical strategy and requirements
• Own the technical solution required to meet a customers specification, liaising proactively with colleagues and external partners to deliver technically elegant, feasible and commercially viable solutions
• Construct cost models to support implementation and ongoing delivery of solutions
• Own and manage risks associated with solution development and implementation
• Author and/or review technical elements of proposal documentation where required
• Take the technical lead in presenting technical and commercial solutions to customers, in collaboration with the sales team
• Provide technical support in contract negotiations and development
• Ensure effective handover of technical solutions to delivery teams, in conjunction with programme managers
• Contribute to the development of our technical solutions and capabilities, keeping abreast of industry developments and proposing innovation
• Provide quality assurance of technical solutions proposed and/or implemented by technical architects or engineers, where required
• Conceptualise and design complex solutions covering multiple sites, including hosted data centre infrastructures
• Perform pre-sales activity in support of business development, solution architecture and sales teams
• Apply detailed design skills specific to the individuals technology specialisation, with an architecture-level appreciation of complementary technologies
• Initiate an ongoing proactive approach, working alongside colleagues to develop and deliver service offerings based on industry best practice and new-to-market technologies
• Understand and develop opportunities within customer accounts
• Maintain a broad understanding across Microsoft technologies and complete training, exams and accreditations as identified as pertinent to the role
• Act as a subject matter expert in agreed technologies in line with our solutions and designs
• Mentor and guide the team to build and develop their skills to meet our requirements and those of our customers
• Work with the management team to build repeatable, robust policies, processes and approaches to enable consistent best-practice solution delivery
• Provide support to Managed Services and Delivery Engineers as an SME
• Carry out all other duties as required

Technologies

• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• DevOps

More

We are Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited, a 100M+ IT services consultancy that has partnered with central government departments and agencies to transform public sector operations in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply transformation, delivery and collaboration skills from across the Methods Group to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe and designed for the future. We are known for our human touch, with people, technology and data at the heart of what we do, and we believe in creating value and sustainability for our clients, staff, communities and the planet. We support our clients collaboratively, encourage learning from mistakes, and offer autonomy, exciting project work that makes a difference in society, inspiring leadership, a supportive environment, LinkedIn Learning and development programmes, wellness support, social activities, 25 days holiday, a pension scheme, discretionary bonus, life assurance, private medical insurance, worldwide travel insurance and retail and leisure discounts. This full-time Modern Workplace Engineer role sits within our Capabilities, IT Cloud department and reports to CCM1.

last updated 36 week of 2026