Business Solutions Architect

- Lead the qualification and shaping of public sector managed service opportunities, ensuring alignment with client objectives, procurement context, and organisational risk frameworks. - Produce qualification papers, solution options, and strategic recommendations for internal governance forums. - Interpret procurement documentation such as ITTs, SQs, DPS frameworks, and call-off mechanisms to inform solution strategy and bid approach. - Define and own bid strategy and win themes for public sector opportunities. - Act as lead author and content owner for core solution sections of competitive bids, including service delivery approach, operating model design, transition and mobilisation strategy, transformation roadmaps, and social value and risk management. - Ensure responses are compelling, compliant, and aligned with evaluation criteria used within public sector procurements. - Review and quality-assure content authored by contributors across the bid team. - Design end-to-end managed service solutions, including operating and governance models, front, middle, and back-office service delivery models, and transformation programmes aligned to policy and regulatory outcomes. - Ensure solutions are scalable, commercially viable, and compliant with public sector requirements such as transparency, auditability, and value for money. - Clearly document solution assumptions, dependencies, risks, and mitigations. - Integrate social value propositions into service design and delivery models. - Align solutions with public sector priorities such as employment and skills development, sustainability and environmental outcomes, and community and economic impact. - Work closely with commercial and finance teams to develop pricing models and cost narratives that support the solution. - Act as a senior leader within bid teams, setting direction, pace, and quality standards. - Mentor colleagues in solution design, bid writing, and public sector procurement disciplines. - Lead solution sign-off through internal governance processes and ensure clear handover from bid to delivery, enabling successful mobilisation and service transition.