Principal systems architect Work, Jobs in Bristol, Eng (with Salaries)

Principal Solutions Architect (AI Solutions)
Government Digital Service —Bristol
- £72,072 - £94,002 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Principal Software Architect
SPX —Bristol
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- AWS
- IT
Principal Civil/Structural & Architectural Engineer
Amentum —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Leadership
- Employee assistance programme
- Flexible schedule
5d
Principal SoC Architect
Graphcore —Bristol
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- C++
- Annual leave
Firmware Architect
Thales —Bristol
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Principal Data Engineer
Graphcore —Bristol
- AWS
- Continuous improvement
- Leadership
Principal Machine Learning Engineer – Production Systems
SoftInWay Inc. —Weston-super-Mare
- Machine learning
- APIs
- Python
Principal Test Development Engineer
MBDA —Bristol
- £55,000 a year
- Overtime
- Hybrid work
- Military
- Travel
- In-person
- Free parking
- Relocation assistance
Experienced Landscape Planner (full or part time)
The Landmark Practice —Bristol
- Part-time
- Driving
- Communication skills
- Paid training
- Employee assistance programme
Public Sector - Technology Consultant/Architect Kubernetes and Apps
Hewlett Packard Enterprise —Bristol
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Sales
- DevOps
AI Sales Specialist - Healthcare, Local Government and Non Profit Organisations, UK Public Sector
AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) —Bristol
- Full-time
- Sales
- AWS
- AI
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Principal Senior Public Health Engineer
Arup —Bristol
- AutoCAD
- Engineering
- Team management
Aerospace Metallic Materials Engineer
Capgemini —Bristol
- Hybrid work
- No degree
- Annual leave
- Referral programme
Public Sector - System Admin/Kubernetes Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise —Bristol
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- DevOps
- English
Principal FPGA Engineer
Thales —Bristol
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Principal Test Engineer – Advanced Packaging
Microchip Technology —Caldicot
- Full-time
- Travel
- Leadership
- Communication skills
Associate Director - Mechanical Engineering
AECOM —Bristol
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Principal Solutions Architect (AI Solutions)

Government Digital Service -
Bristol

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Job details

Full-time | Fixed term contract
£72,072 - £94,002 a year

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Paid volunteer time
Childcare

Qualifications

Presentation skills

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Reference number

464429

Salary

£72,072 - £94,002

Based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £69,675 for other Bristol & Manchester. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance.

GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

Contract type

Fixed term

Length of employment

2 years

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

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Location

Bristol, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

DSIT is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government. Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

joining up public sector services
harnessing the power of AI for the public good
strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
elevating leadership and investing in talent
funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
committing to transparency and driving accountability

People and Transformation

The People & Transformation directorate sits at the heart of shaping DSITs future. We are responsible for getting the fundamentals right from pay, recruitment and casework while also leading the organisations people, workforce and digital transformation. Our work brings together employee experience, organisational design, workforce planning, digital recruitment, policy, data, AI and strategic change to create a joined-up, user-centred system that is easy to access and built for impact.

We're the driving force behind the DSIT Difference, making this the home for inventiveness, expertise and impact. By attracting exceptional talent, using technology and data to simplify decisions, and building a culture that thrives on innovation and continuous improvement were ensuring DSIT is future-ready, so we can do our best work in a fast-changing world.

DSIT is building a new AI Integration team to help the department embed AI into everyday work, so teams can deliver better outcomes for citizens faster, with greater quality and confidence.

As Principal Solutions Architect, you will lead a small team working across the department to identify AI opportunities and turn them into practical applications. This is not a conventional architecture role. Your team will often work independently of each other with portfolios of stakeholders, embedding with different parts of DSIT to understand problems, spot opportunities and help teams move quickly from idea to action.

You will build the team, set direction, shape priorities and help people choose the most effective route for each opportunity. That may mean coaching colleagues to solve a problem themselves, teaching teams how to use AI well, supporting the design of a low-code solution in a short sprint, bringing in specialist contractors, or escalating more complex needs to another team. You will need to keep the team focused, unblock problems, make useful connections and build clear ways of working across a team of people who are often operating independently.

Job description

This is a role for someone entrepreneurial, credible and energising. You will need to inspire others, bring structure to ambiguity, and help a small team deliver high-impact use cases that show clear value for the department.

As a Principal Solutions Architect (AI Solutions), you will:

set strategic direction, standards and ways of working for a distributed team that is often embedded across different parts of the organisation
help the team and stakeholders shape demand, prioritise projects, assess value vs effort/risk, make trade-offs, and maintain focus so solutions can be created
provide AI advice to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders, communicating to gain support whilst managing risk and complexity
develop prototypes and deliver lightweight solutions (most likely using Copilot Studio, Power Automate and/or wider Power Platform)
foster a culture of learning and innovation within your team, role modelling effective and responsible use of AI

Person specification

Were interested in people who:

have experience setting clear strategic direction, standards and ways of working for a distributed team that is often embedded across different parts of the organisation
have experience helping the team and stakeholders shape demand, assess value vs effort/risk, make trade-offs, and maintain focus so solutions can be created, or identifying problems and solution options
have experience providing advice to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders, utilising different architecture communication techniques to gain support from stakeholders for architectural initiatives with high levels of risk, impact and complexity
can translate between user needs, operational reality, governance requirements and technical options
have hands-on skill with Microsoft low-code tools to prototype and deliver lightweight solutions (Copilot Studio, Power Automate and/or wider Power Platform)
have experience coaching others to identify reusable patterns and trends, and feeding them back to the wider organisation to anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architectural work

Benefits

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
an extra day off for the Kings birthday
an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
death in service benefits
cycle to work scheme and facilities
access to an employee discounts scheme
10 learning days per year
volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)
access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning

Any move to Government Digital Service from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

Open Recruitment Session

To provide more information and context about the role, we are holding an open recruitment session on the 22nd June 2026, from 12:00 - 13:00. There will be a presentation followed by a Q&A Session. If you would like to be invited to the session, please email [email protected].

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of:

a simple application screening process - We only ask for a CV and three technical application questions
a 60 minute video interview which will feature a presentation

Depending on how many applications we get, there might also be an extra stage before the video interview, for example a phone interview or a technical exercise.

In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is: Tell us about a time you helped a team move from a vague problem to a clear problem statement, options and recommended action. How did you avoid jumping straight to a technology answer?

In the Civil Service, we use Success Profiles to evaluate your skills and ability. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, increases performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. Well be assessing your technical abilities, skills, experience and behaviours that are relevant to this role.

For this role well be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

Leadership
Seeing the big picture
Communicating and influencing

Well also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for the Principal Solutions Architect role:

Architecture communication
Problem definition and shaping
Architect for the whole context
Community collaboration

Recruitment Timeline

Open Recruitment Session 22nd June 2026 12:00 - 13:00

Sift completion: 9th July 2026

Panel interviews: Starting from the 16th July 2026

Candidates that do not pass the interview but have demonstrated an acceptable standard may be considered for similar roles at a lower grade.

A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.

Sponsorship

DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

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Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact [email protected] in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission by email: [email protected] Or in writing: Civil Service Commission, Room G/8 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ.

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