Bid Solution Architect - LONDON - PART TIME
6 days ago
London
Bid Solution Architect • Contract Duration: 5 months, • Working Days: 3 days per week Day-to-Day of the Role: * Own and assure the end-to-end solution architecture for the bid submission. * Produce and validate architectural artefacts including high-level and low-level diagrams, integration, deployment, and hosting models, and security architecture views. * Ensure technical designs are scalable, supportable, secure, and contract-ready. * Assure the full scheduling system architecture, focusing on performance and resilience. * Validate integration assumptions, API patterns, data flows, and control mechanisms. * Ensure system observability, failover, and peak-load behavior are credible and evidenced. * Design or validate security controls across application, infrastructure, and operations. * Ensure alignment of IAM, encryption, logging, and incident controls with bid commitments. * Validate technical incident flows and recovery behavior. * Test assumptions for resilience, failover, and service continuity. * Validate that infrastructure, hosting, and software costs match the proposed design. * Identify unfunded assumptions, delivery risks, or over-ambitious non-functional claims. * Provide technical inputs for written bid responses, annexes, and clarifications. * Support dialogue sessions with technical briefing packs and defensible response lines. Required Skills & Qualifications: • Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi-supplier environments., • Strong experience with scheduling, booking, appointment, or workforce allocation platforms., • Deep expertise in integration architecture, including API-led and cross-supplier integration., • Demonstrable experience producing architecture artefacts for public sector or regulated procurements., • Prior involvement in bid responses, competitive tenders, or dialogue-based procurements., • Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, resilience, scalability, and deployment models., • Strong understanding of security architecture, including IAM, logging, encryption, and assurance., • Excellent written skills, with the ability to produce clear, evidence-led technical bid content., • Experience with high-volume booking or scheduling platforms in sectors such as transport, testing and inspection, field services, or healthcare., • Familiarity with Microsoft-centric environments, including Azure, Entra ID, and MFA., • Experience supporting UK government procurement dialogue processes., • Knowledge of operational data handling, auditability, and evidential traceability., • Experience validating AI or automation capabilities within controlled governance frameworks. To apply for the Bid Solution Architect position, please submit your CV and a member of the Reed Professional Services Talent Team will be in touch