Senior Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Sopra Steria seeks a Senior Solutions Architect to lead technical presales and bid initiatives within its Strategic Digital Solutions sector. Candidates should have strong expertise in technical bid processes, client engagement, and experience with platforms such as ServiceNow and Salesforce. The role offers career progression, the flexibility to work hybrid, and comprehensive benefits including a competitive salary, a car allowance, and training opportunities.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave plus additional purchase option

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Experience responding to RFP and RFI's.
• Ability to create solutions based on reference architecture.
• Available for SC clearance.

Responsibilities

• Defines the scope and work for assignments with clients to create solution architectures.
• Delivers assignments according to agreed time, financial, and quality measures.
• Coordinates effective client engagement collaboration during assignments.

Skills

Technical bid experience

Client engagement

Solution creation

Understanding of ServiceNow

Understanding of Salesforce

Job description

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Are you an experienced Solutions Architect interested in a role within a Great Place To Work (GPTW) Certified business?

Sopra Steria's Strategic Digital Solutions sector are currently recruiting for Hardworking and ambitious Solutions Architects working in the technical presales and bid world for a growing part of the business. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals with experience working on technical bid work and who are comfortable responding to RFP/RFI's. Any exposure or understanding of platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow would also be a benefit. With this role comes huge scope for personal learning and development including growth and progression within the team but chiefly the opportunity help shape the direction of the team moving forward.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

Please note due to the nature of the work we are only able to consider candidates eligible for SC clearance for this role.

What you'll be doing:

• Defines the scope and work for assignments with ‘client’ (internal or external) to create and implement solutions architectures that meet all of a client’s requirements.
• Delivers assignment in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures.
• Coordinate effective client engagement collaboration during assignment (may involve coordinating subcontractors and partners).
• Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services.
• Complete assignment reviews with the client at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments).
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working on and responding to Technical bids.
• Comfortable responding to RFP and RFI's.
• Experience creating solutions based on reference architecture, costings etc.
• Understanding of ServiceNow or Salesforce
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Hybrid (Home based with occasional travel to various clients)

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker

Salary: Up to £75,000

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Our business is, first and foremost, about people. And it always has been. The solutions we develop are driven by the connections they make and the problems they solve. Our services only matter if they work for people and if they serve a greater purpose. Known for our collaborative approach, we provide consulting and digital services, creating innovative solutions, at scale, to deliver sustainable growth and services that make life better.

Our work touches many lives in the UK. From helping the Government provide essential public and health services that offer more convenience and choice, to improving financial services to deliver fairer, customer-centric solutions.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Professional Services

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