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As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology.\nThat belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers.\nThrough our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.\n Solution Director - Engineering\nAs a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions.\nExploring client problems\n Act as a high-level trusted advisor for equivalent C-suite stakeholders in your area of expertise (CPO/CTO/CDO), providing expert guidance and influencing their thinking and ambitions. \n Build a deep understanding of the client’s core business, strategy, and ambitions, identifying where technology and modern engineering approaches can unlock value. \n Nurture relationships to build a network within the client, developing insight into their business, needs, and challenges.\nAdvise and guide strategy and solutions thinking\n Proactively engage and spend time with clients to understand and explore their needs and pain points, exploring options, proposed solutions, and providing ongoing expert advice. \n Guide, advise, and influence on how technology-across cloud, data, integration, and full stack engineering -can help address their challenges. \n Constructively challenge client thinking to set them on the right path to achieve their desired outcomes. \nIdentify opportunities and support deal development\n Identify opportunities where we can help develop and build the right solutions for the client, including helping the client to build the business case internally. \n Support the development of proposals and shaping of opportunities for both existing clients (with the Head of Client Services) and new potential clients (with CP), playing a key role in presenting our technical capabilities and engineering excellence to build client confidence. \n Fully understand our propositions and solutions delivered to other clients, particularly in areas of domain expertise such as modern application development, full stack architectures, and platform engineering. \nSolution design\n Inspire and support the client by providing a vision and defining their business and technical requirements. \n Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, AI, data, DevOps, and cloud). \n Guide and mentor build teams, overseeing solution design and delivery to ensure it aligns with the original vision and delivers expected business value. \n Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice. \nDevelop our propositions and Practice Area IP\n Actively provide feedback on our propositions to help maintain, develop, and evolve them as needed. \n Contribute to the development of the Practice Area through sharing best practices, reusable assets, and refining methodologies-particularly in areas of software architecture, full stack engineering frameworks, and delivery models.\nTeam leadership and development\n Guide and develop ANDis on engagements, in their Practice Areas and Clubs, helping to grow and elevate technical capabilities across the business. \n Mentor engineers and architects in modern engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning. \nKey performance metrics for this role\nAccount Growth\n Expected contribution to development and growth of the account: driving a greater share of client spend. \n Build client trust by providing high-value technical insights and strategic advice, developing deep credibility and trust at senior levels. \n Achieve 50% utilisation: this is expected to be a billable role. \nTechnical Excellence and Solution Quality\n Ensure technical integrity, robustness, and effectiveness of solutions delivered to clients. \n Bring deep expertise across engineering and architecture, advocating for best practices and modern full stack solution design. \n Directly influence the quality of work delivered through high-quality technical leadership and design governance.\nWhy join AND Digital?\nWe’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way.\nOur model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.\nOur Practice Areas act as a ‘second home’ for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy.\nOur culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.\nBy joining AND, we’ll provide:\n25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays \nPension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).\nAviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.\nFlexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. \nLife Assurance.\nIncome Protection.\nEye test + first pair of glasses.\nParental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.\nEqual Opportunities Statement\nDiversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. 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