Bid Solution Architect

We are seeking a Bid Solution Architect for a major, scheduling‑led service solution bid within a regulated, public‑sector environment. This role is critical for providing end‑to‑end technical leadership, ensuring the proposed technical solution is credible, secure, scalable, and integration‑ready.

Day‑to‑day of the role:

Bid Architecture & Technical Assurance:

• Own and/or assure the end‑to‑end solution architecture for the bid submission.
• Produce and validate all mandatory architectural artefacts, including high‑level and low‑level solution architecture diagrams, integration, deployment, and hosting models.
• Ensure technical designs are scalable, supportable, secure, and contract ready.

Scheduling & Integration Design:

• Assure the full scheduling system architecture, including performance and resilience.
• Validate integration assumptions, API patterns, data flows, and control mechanisms.
• Ensure observability, failover, and peak‑load behaviour are credible and evidenced.

Information Assurance & Security:

• Design or validate security controls across application, infrastructure, and operations.
• Ensure IAM, encryption, logging, and incident controls align to bid commitments.

Incident Management & Operational Resilience:

• Validate technical incident flows and recovery behaviour.
• Test assumptions for resilience, failover, and service continuity.

Commercial & Delivery Assurance:

• Validate that infrastructure, hosting, and software costs match the proposed design.
• Identify unfunded assumptions, delivery risks, or over‑ambitious non‑functional claims.
• Provide technical inputs for written bid responses, annexes, and clarifications.
• Support dialogue sessions with technical briefing packs and defensible response lines.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi‑supplier environments.
• Strong experience with scheduling, booking, appointment, or workforce allocation platforms.
• Deep expertise in integration architecture, including API‑led and cross‑supplier integration.
• Demonstrable experience producing architecture artefacts for public sector or regulated procurements.
• Prior involvement in bid responses, competitive tenders, or dialogue‑based procurements.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, resilience, scalability, and deployment models.
• Excellent written skills, with the ability to produce clear, evidence‑led technical bid content.
• Confident stakeholder management skills, able to challenge suppliers and align technical and commercial teams.
• Experience in high‑volume booking or scheduling platforms in sectors such as transport, testing and inspection, field services, or healthcare.
• Familiarity with Microsoft‑centric environments, including Azure, Entra ID, and MFA.
• Knowledge of operational data handling, auditability, and evidential traceability.
• Experience validating AI or automation capabilities within controlled governance frameworks.

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