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compelling solution strategies, lead solution development and support major pursuits from early qualification through to contract award.\nThis role is ideal for someone who combines strong architecture credentials with experience supporting UK Government digital transformation programmes and competitive procurements.\nResponsibilities\nEngage customers early to understand mission needs, business challenges and transformation goals.\n\nDevelop compelling, deliverable and differentiated solution strategies for major public sector pursuits.\n\nLead solution development from early qualification through proposal, orals and handover to delivery.\n\nCreate clear solution narratives, value propositions, win themes and architectural differentiators.\n\nFacilitate discovery workshops, architecture reviews and solution design sessions with customers and internal teams.\n\nTranslate complex customer problems into practical differentiated solutions across multiple digital capabilities such as Data & Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Security, AI/ML, IT Service Management, Systems Integration and Digital Modernisation.\n\nYou’ll help assess solution feasibility, delivery risk, commercial viability and strategic fit during qualification.\n\nWork with delivery and programme teams to ensure proposed solutions are credible, cost-aware and achievable.\n\nRepresent the solution in customer meetings, executive briefings, bid reviews and orals.\n\nContribute reusable solution patterns, proposition material and thought leadership for future pursuits.\n\nSupport handover from growth into delivery so that commitments, risks and design intent are understood.\n\nEssential Experience\nWe need someone with proven experience working with UK Central Government departments, agencies or arm's-length bodies.\n\nYou have a understanding of how UK public sector customers buy, govern and deliver complex digital transformation programmes.\n\nExperience with departments such as HMRC, DWP, Defra, GDS, Cabinet Office or similar.\n\nYou should have experience supporting competitive procurements, frameworks, bids, proposals or capture activities.\n\nCloud or architecture certifications such as Azure, AWS or TOGAF are useful but not a substitute for relevant experience.\n\nThe role requires someone who can create confidence with customers, strengthen capture strategy and improve the quality of major bids.\n\nThe successful candidate will be a trusted adviser who can architect, not simply an architect who can present technology.\n\nApplicants should be able to evidence their personal contribution to winning, shaping or significantly improving strategic opportunities.\n\nYou should understand how to balance customer outcomes, technical quality, delivery risk and commercial competitiveness.\n\nYou should have strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management and executive\n\nYou must hold current and valid UK Security Check (SC) clearance.\n\nExtensive experience working in the UK and developing successful solutions for UK Government contracts.\n\nDesirable Experience\nWe are particularly interested in candidates who have helped shape opportunities before formal procurement begins.\n\nAble to write clearly and contribute high-quality bid, proposal and presentation content.\n\nYou do not need to be the deepest specialist in every domain, but you must know how to orchestrate specialists effectively.\n\nExperience in consulting, systems integration, managed services or complex technology delivery environments would be helpful.\n\nKnowledge of public sector procurement frameworks and competitive bid processes would be advantageous.\n\nKnowledge of AI-enabled transformation, data-driven services and platform modernisation would be advantageous.\n\nWhat you need to show\nApplicants should be able to describe trade-offs they made between scope, cost, risk, differentiation and deliverability.\n\nApplicants should be able to explain a complex government solution in plain business language.\n\nApplicants should be able to show how they worked with capture, commercial, delivery and technical teams to create a coherent proposition.\n\nApplicants should understand that this role may move between accounts, opportunities and sectors as business priorities change.\n\nThe role is aligned to growth activity, but deployment will flex according to priority pursuits and business need.\n\nAdditional Information\nThis is not a product presales role focused on demos or licensing conversations.\n\nThis is not a pure delivery architecture role focused only on post-award implementation.\n\nYou must be able to travel regularly across the UK to support customer meetings, Leidos workshops and other pursuit activities, with very occasional travel to the United States.\n\nWhat we do for you:\nAt Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.\nWe provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:\nContributory Pension Scheme\nPrivate Medical Insurance\n33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)\nAccess to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)\nFlexi-Time Working\nCommitment to Diversity:\nWe welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.\nWho We Are:\nLeidos UK & Europe - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.\nLeidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.\nWhat Makes Us Different:\nPurpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.\nCollaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.\nPeople: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nFor U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\n Pay Range:\n£75,800.00-£99,800.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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