Position Description:
Challenge yourself and change lives, unlocking complex system solutions as part of a highly motivated and supportive team as a Pre-Sales Solution Architect.
Our Pre-Sales Solution Architects are trusted to work closely with a wide range of clients on exciting projects with real-world purpose and impact.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member 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.
We are happy to discuss remote or hybrid working.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
As the Pre-Sales Solution Architect you will essentially bridge the gap between the technical and business teams and be responsible for providing expertise in the definition, design, implementation, adoption and adherence to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards.
You will be responsible for defining the solution and owning it through the proposition development and present it to the client. You will be required to contribute significantly to proposal production and collate and validate solution assumptions. It is expected that you will oversee and lead a team of technical resources that will provide the underpinning technical solution of the proposition.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
As the successful Pre-Sales Senior Solution Architect you will offer demonstrable expertise with core technical skills in applications/services (with Azure/AWS cloud experience).
- Strong background in a Solution Architect role
- Experience of transformation/modernisation projects would be very desirable
- Delivery experience in designing and implementing cloud native solutions
- Ideally TOGAF certified
- Delivery experience in Agile methodologies such as: Scrum; Lean; LeSS; SAFe
- Understanding and demonstrable capability in the software delivery lifecycle including acceptance into service and in service operations
- Understanding of Data Warehousing approaches and techniques
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Skills:
1. Bid Management
2. Client Management
3. Solutions Architecture