Job Description
Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.
Bid Solution Architect
- Contract Duration: 5 months
- Working Days: 3 days per week
- Location: Hybrid – London
Join our team at Reed Professional Services, a leading Management Consultancy and technology services provider. We are currently seeking a Bid Solution Architect for a major public-sector bid project. This part-time, hybrid role is based in London and spans 5 months, requiring a commitment of 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.
- Confident stakeholder management skills, able to challenge suppliers and align technical and commercial teams.
Desirable:
- 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. xwzovoh
- 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