Solution Director: Engineering

AND Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days bookable holiday

Pension: 6% + 2%

Aviva healthcare cover

Flexibenefit: £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye test and glasses

Parental Benefits

Job summary

AND Digital is seeking a Solution Director - Engineering to lead and grow our client accounts, building trust with senior stakeholders and shaping technology strategies. You will guide strategic thinking, advise on modern engineering approaches, and identify opportunities to deliver tangible business value.

Translate client needs into scalable architectures across cloud, AI, integration, and full stack engineering; mentor delivery teams; shape proposals and drive engineering excellence to

Job description

We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

About You

• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused
• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams

Solution Director - Engineering

As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions.

What You'll Bring To The Table

As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions.

Exploring client problems

• Act as a high-level trusted advisor for equivalent C-suite stakeholders in your area of expertise (CPO/CTO/CDO), providing expert guidance and influencing their thinking and ambitions.
• Build a deep understanding of the client's core business, strategy, and ambitions, identifying where technology and modern engineering approaches can unlock value.
• Nurture relationships to build a network within the client, developing insight into their business, needs, and challenges.

Advise and guide strategy and solutions thinking

• Proactively engage and spend time with clients to understand and explore their needs and pain points, exploring options, proposed solutions, and providing ongoing expert advice.
• Guide, advise, and influence on how technology—across cloud, AI, integration, and full stack engineering—can help address their challenges.
• Input and partake in data-based conversations and work with the Data Solution Director to make sound recommendations to clients.
• Constructively challenge client thinking to set them on the right path to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Provide clients with tangible examples of how you have deployed AI in an engineering capacity.

Identify opportunities and support deal development

• Identify opportunities where we can help develop and build the right solutions for the client, including helping the client to build the business case internally.
• Support the development of proposals and shaping of opportunities for both existing clients (with the Head of Client Services) and new potential clients (with CP), playing a key role in presenting our technical capabilities and engineering excellence to build client confidence.
• Fully understand our propositions and solutions delivered to other clients, particularly in areas of domain expertise such as modern application development, full stack architectures, and platform engineering.

Solution design

• Inspire and support the client by providing a vision and defining their business and technical requirements.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, data, DevOps, and cloud).
• Provide recommendations on how we can leverage AI-based solutions to improve, enhance, expedite solutions and/or engineering practices.
• Guide and mentor build teams, overseeing solution design and delivery to ensure it aligns with the original vision and delivers expected business value.
• Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice.

Develop our propositions and Practice Area IP

• Actively provide feedback on our propositions to help maintain, develop, and evolve them as needed.
• Contribute to the development of the Practice Area through sharing best practices, reusable assets, and refining methodologies—particularly in areas of software architecture, full stack engineering frameworks, and delivery models.

Team leadership and development

• Guide and develop ANDis on engagements, in their Practice Areas and Clubs, helping to grow and elevate technical capabilities across the business.
• Mentor engineers and architects in modern engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Why join AND Digital?

We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional ‘Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a ‘second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.

By Joining AND, We'll Provide

• 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
• Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
• Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
• Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Eye test + first pair of glasses.
• Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave

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Equal Opportunities Statement

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.