UBDS Group
Senior Solutions Architect - Solution Shaping
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UBDS Group helps organisations solve complex technology challenges across cloud, cyber security, data, AI, and digital transformation. We work with clients operating in complex, secure, and highly regulated environments, with a significant focus on the public sector and defence.
We’re looking for a Senior Solutions Architect with broad technology experience, strong consulting skills, and a commercial mindset. The role will work across all of our capabilities and solutions, with cyber security expected to be a significant area of focus, drawing on specialist capabilities across the wider UBDS Group, especially 3B Data Security.
The Role
As a Senior Solutions Architect, you’ll work with clients, Sales, bid teams, delivery teams, and SMEs to understand complex requirements and shape clear, compelling, and deliverable engagements.
You’ll lead and support discovery, shape opportunities, and develop high-quality proposals and Statements of Work (SOWs), bringing together the right expertise from across UBDS Group.
This isn’t necessarily about designing the complete technical solution upfront. Often, the role is to understand the challenge, define the outcomes, and shape an engagement where further discovery, assessment, or detailed solution design forms part of the project.
You’ll need to be comfortable operating with ambiguity and balancing client outcomes, technical credibility, security, commercial considerations, and delivery risk.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and support client discovery sessions, workshops, and technical discussions
- Shape opportunities into clear, credible, and deliverable engagements
- Develop high-quality SOWs, proposals, technical responses, and supporting bid collateral
- Define scope, outcomes, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and exclusions
- Support bid teams with technical responses to RFPs, RFIs, tenders, and frameworks
- Bring together architects, engineers, and SMEs across cloud, infrastructure, networking, workplace, cyber security, data, and AI, including specialist expertise from 3B Data Security
- Turn specialist input into coherent client propositions and delivery approaches
- Ensure cyber security, risk, governance, and security-by-design considerations are appropriately reflected in proposed engagements
- Develop work packages, resource requirements, and estimates with delivery teams and SMEs
- Present proposals and recommendations to senior business, technology, and security stakeholders
- Support effective transition from solution shaping into delivery
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What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience as a Solutions Architect, Technical Architect, Solutions Consultant, or similar client-facing technology role
- Experience working with public sector and/or defence clients, ideally within complex, secure, or regulated environments
- Broad technology knowledge across areas such as cloud, infrastructure, networking, workplace, data, AI, and cyber security
- Strong understanding of cyber security and how it should be incorporated into wider technology solutions and transformation programmes
- Strong consulting, discovery, and solution-shaping experience
- Demonstrable experience creating SOWs, proposals, technical responses, and other client-facing documentation
- Experience supporting bids, tenders, RFPs, and complex client opportunities
- Ability to take ambiguous requirements and determine what needs to be defined upfront versus through subsequent discovery or detailed design
- Ability to bring together and work effectively with specialist architects, engineers, and SMEs
- Strong commercial awareness around scope, effort, assumptions, risk, and deliverability
- Excellent stakeholder management, written communication, and presentation skills
- Confidence engaging with senior clients across business, technology, and security functions
What Success Looks Like
You’ll see the bigger technology and security picture without needing to be the deepest technical expert in every domain.
You’ll understand the client challenge, ask the right questions, and bring together the right expertise from across UBDS Group to shape engagements that are compelling, secure, commercially sound, and deliverable.
Most importantly, you’ll create proposals and SOWs that clients understand and trust, and that give our delivery teams the foundations they need to succeed.
Why People Choose to Grow Their Careers at UBDS Group
Professionals choose to grow their careers at UBDS Group for its reputation as a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation that is deeply committed to both innovation and employee development. At UBDS Group, employees are given unique opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects across a diverse range of industries, exposing them to new challenges and learning opportunities that are pivotal for professional growth. The Group’s culture emphasises continuous improvement, offering ample training programs, mentorship, and the chance to gain certifications that enhance their skills and marketability.
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UBDS Group fosters a collaborative environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged, allowing employees to contribute ideas and solutions that have a tangible impact on the company and its clients. This combination of professional development, a culture of innovation, and the opportunity to make meaningful contributions makes UBDS Group an attractive place for those looking to advance their careers and be at the forefront of technological and operational excellence.
Employee Benefits
- Training – All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical-led, business acumen, or methodologies. We want you to grow with us and to help us achieve more.
- Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality.
- Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance.
- Holiday – You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice.
- Contributed Pension Scheme.
- Death in service cover.
About UBDS Group
At UBDS Group, our mission is to support entrepreneurs who are setting new standards with technology solutions across cloud services, cybersecurity, data, and AI, ensuring that every investment advances our commitment to innovation, making a difference, and creating impactful solutions for organisations and society.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
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