Bid Solution Architect - LONDON - PART TIME
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.
- 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