Senior Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria - UK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Sopra Steria - UK as a Solutions Architect within a certified Great Place to Work, focusing on technical presales and bid activities. In this role, you'll define and deliver solutions architectures and engage with clients to fulfill requirements. Flexible working arrangements are supported, offering career progression opportunities within a collaborative culture that prioritizes people and innovative solutions.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in technical bid responses and creating solutions based on reference architecture.
• Understanding of ServiceNow or Salesforce is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Defines the scope and work for assignments to create solutions architectures.
• Delivers assignments in accordance with scope, time, and quality measures.
• Coordinates effective client engagement collaboration during assignments.

Skills

Technical bids

Client engagement

Solutions architecture

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

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!

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!