Principal Solutions Architect (AI Solutions) – Government Digital Service – G6

About the Job

DSIT is the digital centre of government. We are the Digital Service Innovation Team, responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

We are building a new AI Integration team to embed AI into everyday work, helping teams deliver better outcomes for citizens faster with greater quality and confidence.

As Principal Solutions Architect, you will lead a small team working across the department to identify AI opportunities and turn them into practical applications.

Location

Bristol, Manchester

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction, standards and ways of working for a distributed team embedded across different parts of the organisation.
• Help the team and stakeholders shape demand, prioritise projects, assess value vs effort/risk, make trade-offs and maintain focus so solutions can be created.
• Provide AI advice to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders, communicating to gain support while managing risk and complexity.
• Develop prototypes and deliver lightweight solutions (most likely using Copilot Studio, Power Automate and/or wider Power Platform).
• Foster a culture of learning and innovation within your team, role-modeling effective and responsible use of AI.
• Build the team, set direction, shape priorities and help people choose the most effective route for each opportunity.
• Coach colleagues to solve problems independently, support the design of low-code solutions, bring in specialist contractors and unblock problems.

Person specification

• Have experience setting clear strategic direction, standards and ways of working for a distributed team embedded across different parts of the organisation.
• Have experience helping the team and stakeholders shape demand, assess value vs effort/risk, make trade-offs and maintain focus so solutions can be created, or identifying problems and solution options.
• Have experience providing advice to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders, utilising different architecture communication techniques to gain support for architectural initiatives with high levels of risk, impact and complexity.
• Can translate between user needs, operational reality, governance requirements and technical options.
• Have hands-on skill with Microsoft low-code tools to prototype and deliver lightweight solutions (Copilot Studio, Power Automate and/or wider Power Platform).
• Have experience coaching others to identify reusable patterns and trends, and feeding them back to the wider organisation to anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architectural work.

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