? Chief Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales - Defence Digital) Clearance: SC minimum; DV strongly preferred
Location: Predominantly Remote with occasional travel to either South / Midlands offices/customer sites.
Overview
Our client's Defence business is scaling its digital services footprint and requires a senior pre-sales technologist with genuine defence domain experience. You'll partner with the BD lead, shape mission-aligned solutions, and drive services-led growth across secure IT, cyber, data and digital transformation programmes.
What You'll Do
Engage with Defence Digital, DE&S, MOD and StratCom, and industry primes where partnering on projects
Run technical discovery, problem framing, and service design workshops
Shape solutions across a range of services, including:
Secure networks & hosting
Digital workplace
Data / AI / analytics
Cyber security & resilience
Managed services & ITSM/SIAM models
Build pre-sales artefacts: architectures, roadmaps, service definitions, high-level designs
Support bids and proposals with delivery and commercial teams
Act as the technical authority during early capture
Build credible technical trust quickly with defence stakeholders
Essential Experience
Deep defence domain exposure (Defence Digital, DE&S, STRATCOM, etc.)
SC clearance (DV desirable)
Strong pre-sales capability: discovery, shaping, solution definition
Broad secure IT understanding: networking, cloud, hosting, cyber, data, enterprise services
Experience and networks within SIs/defence integrators (e.g. DXC, Leidos, Sopra, CGI, BAE, Atos etc.)
Nice to Have
Military background + commercial experience
Exposure to cyber operations / defensive cyber
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