Pre-Sales AI Solutions Architect

As the Presales AI Solutions Architect within our AI Practice, you'll play a key role in technological advancement, developing a team and leading successful projects in all UK sectors.

You will have the opportunity to create and take ownership of technical solutions, promote our AI offerings, and provide guidance on technology strategies, roadmaps, and business plans. This is a client-facing role, so you’ll need to be confident presenting and building strong relationships. Your role will extend beyond our organisation, representing us at conferences and establishing market presence. Join us and become the driving force behind innovative solutions that redefine the future of technology.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a high-performing team and foster relationships within Sopra Steria.
• Support and contribute to developing business requirements.
• Propose optimal solutions and own the design and creation of design artefacts across pre-sales, delivery and as repeatable blueprints.
• Build and the support the development of compelling propositions to take to market.
• Leading technical design and authoring on bids and proposals.
• Maintaining strong customer relationships and make sure the right skills are maintained in the architecture function.

What you’ll bring:

• Pre-sales experience with proven experience authoring bids, crafting compelling proposals, and taking a consultative approach with clients to win new work.
• Proven experience delivering AI solutions in complex environments.
• Strong technical knowledge of AI for example, Machine Learning, AWS AI, Azure AI, GenAI and Agents.
• Experience with digital assistant solutions enhanced by AI such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Demonstrable experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
• Solid understanding of MLOps.
• Ability to engage confidently with clients and present technical solutions clearly.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with AI governance and ethical frameworks.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type:Full-time Permanent.

Location: Can be based anywhere in the UK.

Security Clearance Level:Must be eligible for SC clearance.

Salary:up to £101k

Benefits:£6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we’ve developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.