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Strategic Bids Architect - multiple roles

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B32Ta, B3 2TA, United Kingdom
Last week
£100,000 – £160,000 pa

Salary

£100,000 – £160,000 pa

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
27 May 2026 (Last week)

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Bonus Car allowance
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Strategic Bids Architect - multiple roles

Home based with occasional travel to their UK offices (Midlands and Hampshire)

Salary based on experience +bonus+ car/ car allowance

Due to continued success and expansion, I am delighted to say my Global market leading client have asked us to help recruitment for multipleStrategic Bids Architect to support high-value, complex digital, data and AI-enabled bids on a contract basis. This role is perfect for an experienced architect who thrives in pre-sales, solution leadership, and shaping commercially competitive technology propositions.

The Opportunity

As thesenior technical lead across major bids, you'll design and govern advanced digital, data and AI architectures — ensuring they are scalable, deliverable, and positioned to win. You’ll work closely with Growth, Service Design, and senior stakeholders to craft innovative, cloud-native, data-driven solutions that demonstrate real measurable outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

Solution Leadership

  • Lead end-to-end architecture design for strategic bids (cloud, data, AI, automation).
  • Translate business and outcome requirements into clear, integrated technical blueprints.
  • Define architecture vision across AI/ML platforms, analytics, automation, integration and security.
  • Balance innovation with cost, risk, and delivery feasibility.

Bid & Pursuit Engagement

  • Act as the technical design authority across bid cycles.
  • Shape digital transformation narratives with a strong AI-driven edge.
  • Support bid writing, technical orals, workshops, and client deep-dives.

Digital, Data & AI Governance

  • Align all architectural elements with enterprise standards and responsible AI frameworks.
  • Maintain traceability between outcomes, capabilities, architecture and cost models.
  • Support risk and assurance around data, AI, integration, scalability and security.

Commercial Support

  • Work with commercial teams to model cost structures and justify ROI.
  • Provide input into outcome-based, consumption-based, and fixed-price bid modelling.
  • Ensure solutions are compelling, competitive, and architecturally sound.

Transition Support

  • Support handover into mobilisation teams post-award, ensuring architecture continuity.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Proven experience designinglarge-scale digital transformation solutions.
  • Deep knowledge ofAI/ML, data platforms, analytics, automation and cloud architectures.
  • Strong experience withAWS/Azure, APIs, microservices, integration and event-driven systems.
  • Proven track record leading solution design formajor bids.
  • Ability to communicate withCXO-level stakeholders.
  • Familiarity withTOGAF, ITIL, Agile, Responsible AI frameworks, and architecture modelling tools.

Ready to take the lead ongame-changing bids? Apply now and help shape the next generation of public service and defence solutions.

*Due to the nature of this role, UK Security Clearance (SC) eligibility is essential.

This means you must be a British Citizen, EU leave to remain or ILR to apply for this position. *


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