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Position Description
At CGI, we help clients solve complex business challenges by designing innovative technology solutions that deliver lasting value. As a Solution Architect – Solution Owner, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping winning solutions for large, strategic opportunities, working with clients and multidisciplinary teams to define services that are commercially competitive, technically robust, and aligned to business outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to influence major transformation programmes, collaborate with experts across CGI, and make a tangible impact from initial engagement through to successful delivery in an environment that encourages innovation, ownership, and continuous professional growth.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.
Your future duties and responsibilities
In this role, you will lead the Global Technology Operations (GTO) solution for major multi-million-pound bids, taking ownership of the end-to-end solution throughout the pre-sales lifecycle. Working closely with Opportunity Pursuit Leads, technical specialists, and business stakeholders, you will ensure solutions are innovative, commercially competitive, and fully aligned to client objectives while meeting governance, quality, and delivery standards.
You'll coordinate multidisciplinary teams across infrastructure, cloud, networks, end user services, and IT service management, bringing together technical expertise to develop compelling proposals that maximise value for both clients and CGI. You'll also help strengthen our bid capability by sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, and driving continuous improvement across the solution development process.
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Key responsibilities:
- Lead & Own the GTO solution for strategic, high-value bid opportunities from qualification through to contract award.
- Design & Shape innovative service and technical solutions that align with customer strategies, requirements, and desired outcomes.
- Coordinate & Deliver multidisciplinary teams, ensuring solution plans, milestones, governance activities, and approvals are completed on time.
- Manage & Optimise solution costs, pricing inputs, benchmarking activities, and bid budgets to deliver commercially competitive proposals.
- Review & Assure solution quality through technical reviews, governance processes, and implementation sign-offs.
- Identify & Mitigate technical, commercial, and delivery risks throughout the bid lifecycle.
- Present & Influence senior stakeholders through solution reviews, client presentations, and executive briefings.
- Collaborate & Improve with third-party suppliers, internal delivery teams, and business units to strengthen solution quality and efficiency.
- Support & Develop colleagues through coaching, knowledge sharing, and participation in lessons learned activities.
- Enable & Transition successful opportunities by leading solution handovers into delivery teams.
Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
To be successful in this role, you'll bring significant experience designing complex infrastructure and managed service solutions within large-scale bids. You'll combine broad technical knowledge with commercial awareness, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams in delivering high-quality, customer-focused solutions.
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Extensive experience in Solution Architecture, Solution Ownership, or Technical Pre-Sales within complex IT services or managed services environments.
- Strong knowledge across infrastructure, cloud, hosting, networks, end user computing, and IT service management.
- Proven experience leading technical solution development for large, complex bid opportunities.
- Strong understanding of commercial models, cost estimation, pricing principles, and bid financial management.
- Experience presenting technical solutions to senior client stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage technical and non-technical risks across complex solution designs.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and proposal writing skills.
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and third-party suppliers.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and governance requirements.
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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
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