Strategic Bids Architect

Serco Group Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public service provider is seeking a Strategic Bids Architect to drive digital transformation in the public sector. In this role, you will engage with senior government stakeholders, lead the design of innovative digital solutions, and collaborate with technology partners to enhance citizen services. This hybrid position offers the chance to make a significant impact on public sector modernization efforts and improve service delivery through AI and data strategies. Join us to shape the future of public digital services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in major public sector solutions.
• Strong understanding of government digital strategies.
• Deep technical curiosity with a focus on societal improvement.

Responsibilities

• Engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Lead opportunity shaping for public sector bids.
• Drive collaboration with technology partners.

Skills

Leading digital data or AI solution architectures

Executive level engagement

Technical curiosity and creativity

Commercial awareness

Job description

Overview

You\'ll bring together innovation, architecture, and commercial strategy to create solutions that are both visionary and viable. From opportunity shaping through to bid submission, you\'ll ensure every proposal embeds cutting-edge digital and AI capabilities to deliver better outcomes for citizens, demonstrates awareness of how emerging technologies are reshaping service delivery across domains, aligns with government digital and data strategies, reflects Serco\'s design ethos — innovative, ethical, sustainable, and secure, and is fully aligned with delivery capability and commercial viability. You\'ll collaborate with our leading-edge ecosystem partners including global cloud providers, AI innovators, and cyber specialists to bring the best of digital technology together to enable governments to modernise, connect, and transform.

Responsibilities

• Engage and influence senior stakeholders at CXO and Director level within client organisations.
• Lead opportunity shaping and solution design for strategic public sector bids and transformation programmes.
• Play a critical role shaping the market and influencing opportunities.
• Drive User-Centric Problem-Solving designs with end-user productivity and operational efficiency at the core not just architectural elegance.
• Integrate cloud, data, automation, and AI to deliver measurable improvements in service performance, citizen experience, and efficiency.
• Partner with delivery leaders within Serco to ensure architectural integrity, deliverability, and governance from design through mobilisation.
• Drive collaboration with strategic technology partners (AWS, Microsoft, Google, ServiceNow, and others) to bring the best of digital innovation to the public sector.
• Promote responsible and ethical AI, ensuring transparency, inclusion, and accountability in every solution.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading digital, data, or AI solution architectures for major public sector or complex transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of government digital, data, and AI strategies (e.g. GDS, CDDO, NHS, MoD, or international equivalents).
• Ability to engage confidently at executive level, shaping opportunities alongside senior client and internal stakeholders.
• Deep technical curiosity and creativity - you see technology as a means to improve society, not just systems.
• Commercial awareness and delivery insight - you balance innovation with practicality and value.
• Disability Confident

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Opportunity and Impact

This is your opportunity to help shape the next generation of public digital services. To work on projects that matter — from AI-driven citizen engagement to data-led service redesign and secure government cloud platforms that keep nations running. You\'ll be part of a new, ambitious digital architecture community — working with visionary leaders, government partners, and global technology innovators to build solutions that will impact millions. If you want to use technology to serve society, influence how governments think about digital transformation, and be part of something genuinely new — we\'d love to meet you.

Location: Hybrid (Home, Hook or London office) | Business Unit: Data, Digital & Technology (DDaT) | Type: Permanent | Full-time

Salary: Competitive + benefits

Shape the future of digital public services

At Serco, we\'re transforming the way governments serve their citizens — designing intelligent, data-driven, and AI-enabled solutions that improve lives, strengthen communities, and deliver real public value. As a Strategic Bids Architect, you\'ll be at the forefront of this mission — leading the design of next-generation digital, data, and AI solutions for some of the most important public sector programmes in the UK and around the world. You\'ll work closely with senior leaders across government and the public sector, partnering with CXOs, Chief Digital Officers, and Directors of Transformation to craft visionary yet deliverable solutions that make a tangible difference to citizens.

This is your opportunity to help shape the next generation of public digital services. To work on projects that matter — from AI-driven citizen engagement to data-led service redesign and secure government cloud platforms that keep nations running. You\'ll be part of a new, ambitious digital architecture community — working with visionary leaders, government partners, and global technology innovators to build solutions that will impact millions. If you want to use technology to serve society, influence how governments think about digital transformation, and be part of something genuinely new — we\'d love to meet you.

Be part of something bigger. Be part of Serco.