Security Solutions Architect

Security Solutions Architect

Full Time / Oxfordshire / Hybrid £50,000 - £70,000 + Bonus

The Opportunity

We are working with a highly successful and award-winning UK technology specialist that continues to experience strong year-on-year growth across security, cloud, and managed services.

With an outstanding reputation for technical excellence and innovation, this organisation has built a people-first culture that invests heavily in development, progression, and creating an environment where individuals can genuinely thrive.

Due to continued expansion, they are now looking to appoint a Security Solutions Architect to join their high-performing Solutions Engineering team.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Solutions Engineering, you will play a key role in supporting business growth by delivering expert pre-sales technical consultancy across a broad security portfolio.

This is a client-facing position where you will:

  • Engage with customers to understand their security risks, challenges, and objectives

  • Design robust, modern, and commercially viable security solutions

  • Support the sales function with technical expertise throughout the full sales lifecycle

  • Deliver compelling product demonstrations and Proof of Concepts (POCs)

  • Produce high-quality proposals, scopes of work, and tender responses

  • Present and position solutions confidently against competitive offerings

This role would suit someone with strong consultancy or pre-sales experience who enjoys working directly with customers and shaping secure, scalable IT environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver both chargeable and non-chargeable technical pre-sales services to new and existing customers

  • Build and maintain strong technical relationships with clients and prospects

  • Support opportunity qualification, discovery sessions, and technical account planning

  • Deliver engaging product presentations, demonstrations, webinars, and customer-facing events

  • Design and execute tailored POCs

  • Evaluate competitive solutions and recommend best-fit technologies

  • Contribute to technical solution design and documentation

Skills & Experience Required
  • Experience in technical consultancy, pre-sales, or customer-facing project delivery within an MSP or IT reseller environment (essential)

  • Strong knowledge across IT infrastructure and security technologies

  • Experience working with technologies such as Sophos, Microsoft, N-Able, Mimecast, Barracuda, Fortinet (or similar vendors)

  • Strong proposal and tender writing experience

  • Excellent presentation and demonstration skills

  • Commercial awareness with the ability to articulate business value alongside technical detail

  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences

  • Right to work in the UK

Relevant certifications across security, Microsoft, or vendor technologies are highly desirable.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Job Details

Company
Sanderson
Location
Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£50,000 - £70,000 per annum
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