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