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Our mission is to help organizations evolve into truly software-driven enterprises, empowering them to deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainably. We believe in changing the world by sharing our expertise and enabling teams to work better through modern technology and intelligent automation.\nWith more than 600 experts across 10 countries, Eficode brings together people from across the Nordics, continental Europe, the UK and the Americas. We’re an Atlassian Platinum Partner, a two-time GitHub Partner of the Year in EMEA and an Azure Managed Service Provider.\nNow, we’re looking for a Solutions Sales Architect to join our growing UK Sales team and help customers navigate the increasingly complex world of modern software development.\nRole purpose\nIf you have a strong technical background but also enjoy the commercial side of technology, this could be a great opportunity.\nWorking closely with our UK Sales and Global Delivery teams, you’ll lead customer discovery, understand their challenges and connect them with the right combination of Eficode’s services, products and technology partners.\nThis is a broad presales role spanning DevOps, software development, platform engineering, cloud, developer tooling and AI. You’ll help shape complex solutions, bring in specialist expertise when needed, and support opportunities from early conversations through to a successful handover into Delivery.\nAs a new role within our growing UK business, you’ll also have the opportunity to help shape how we approach presales in the region.\nRole responsibilities\nYour main responsibilities will include:\nLead customer discovery to understand challenges, priorities and desired outcomes.\n\nDesign and shape solutions across Eficode’s portfolio of products, licensing and services.\n\nBring together expertise across Sales, Delivery and our technology partners to ensure solutions are technically sound, commercially viable and deliverable.\n\nProvide solution governance throughout the sales cycle, challenging scope, assumptions, estimates, risks and commitments where needed.\n\nPartner with Sales to win and grow opportunities, supporting proposals, presentations, commercial discussions, upsell and cross-sell.\n\nPresent compelling solution narratives to senior technical and business stakeholders, clearly communicating value, approach and expected outcomes.\n\nEnsure a smooth transition into Delivery, with clear alignment on scope, outcomes, commercials, risks, dependencies and customer expectations.\n\nUse delivery feedback and lessons learned to continually improve propositions, solution approaches and estimating.\n\nContribute to commercial targets including pipeline progression, conversion, margin and successful sales outcomes.\n\nHelp strengthen our UK presales capability by coaching Sales colleagues and developing reusable tools, approaches and materials.\n\nHow you will work\nThis role brings Sales, Solution Specialists and Delivery together to create solutions customers value and Eficode can successfully deliver.\nCollaborative: Work across Sales, Delivery and specialist teams, bringing in the right expertise at the right time.\n\nCustomer & outcome-focused: Keep customer challenges, goals and measures of success at the heart of every solution.\n\nCommercially minded: Balance customer value with Eficode’s commercial goals, ensuring solutions are viable, realistic and deliverable.\n\nConstructively challenging: Ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and make risks visible early.\n\nContinuous improvement: Use feedback from sales and delivery to strengthen our solutions, estimating and ways of working.\n\nRole requirements\nYou’ll make a great match for this role if you have:\n6+ years of experience in technical presales, solutions architecture, sales engineering, technology consulting or a similar customer-facing technical role.\n\nBroad knowledge of DevOps and the software development lifecycle, including areas such as platform engineering, cloud and developer tooling.\n\nExperience shaping complex technology solutions and working alongside Sales throughout the opportunity lifecycle.\n\nStrong customer discovery and consultative skills, with the ability to understand pain points and translate them into clear solution directions.\n\nThe confidence and credibility to present to and advise senior technical and business stakeholders.\n\nAn understanding of how AI is changing the software development lifecycle, including developer productivity, platform engineering and enterprise governance.\n\nA commercial mindset, with an understanding of how technical decisions impact scope, risk and the wider opportunity.\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, plus willingness to travel to customers within the UK when needed.\n\nNice-to-haves\nIt would be an added bonus if you have:\nExperience with Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab or another DevOps/developer platform ecosystem.\n\nExperience selling consulting, transformation or managed services alongside technology products and licenses.\n\nExperience acting as a long-term technical advisor to large enterprise customers, including roadmap and expansion conversations.\n\nExperience working across software vendors, consultancies and partner ecosystems.\n\nRelevant vendor certifications, architecture credentials or technical education - although practical experience and capability matter more to us than a particular degree.\n\nWhat’s in it for you?\nThe opportunity to play a key role in the growth of Eficode’s UK business and help shape our presales capability in the region.\n\nA broad presales role working across our portfolio, with exposure to DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, AI and leading technology partners.\n\n26 days’ annual leave plus public holidays, with the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year.\n\nInvest in your development with free access to all Udemy courses and unlimited free books.\n\nRemote and flexible working, with flexible work hours, a home working equipment budget and your choice of work phone, laptop and necessary equipment.\n\nPrivate healthcare, pension and enhanced parental leave.\n\nRegular team lunches, socials and industry events, with opportunities to attend major industry conferences.\n\nRemuneration & Location\nThis is a remote-hybrid position with a requirement to attend our Southampton office at least twice a month (ideally more often if the commute permits).\nThe role is customer-facing and will involve travel to customer sites, typically around 20-25%, with occasional international travel.\nWe offer a competitive market-rate base salary plus commission, dependent on experience.\nHow to Apply\nIf this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you - 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If you are not selected to move forward in the process, we will also make sure to keep you informed.\n\nWe want you to feel informed and confident about joining Eficode! 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