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
