Solution Architect

Location: GBR - Mobile Eng | Job-ID: 220625 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Solution Architect to join Computacenter’s dynamic and rapidly expanding Workplace Consultancy Practice.

You’ll be part of a truly global organisation, delivering services across more than 70 countries worldwide. As a recognised leader in IT services, Computacenter offers a unique vendor-independent and infrastructure-focused perspective on the market.

Working primarily across Workplace solutions, you’ll help shape, assure and deliver complex, integrated solutions for our customers, driving business outcomes and growth across multiple technology practice areas. You’ll work alongside talented and passionate colleagues and have the opportunity to contribute to some of our highest-profile customer engagements and transformation projects.

With access to industry thought leaders, strategic technology partners and leading-edge technologies, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to broaden your expertise and continue developing your skills.

What you’ll do

• Attend customer opportunity and strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical requirements and strategy.
• Work closely with Sales colleagues, peers and subject matter experts to create compelling solutions for Computacenter customers.
• Engage with C-level executives and senior IT management to align technology solutions with business strategy and desired outcomes.
• Act as the Technical Authority and technical lead for complex, enterprise-scale and mission-critical customer projects throughout the pre-sales lifecycle and into the planning and initiation stages of delivery.
• Provide technical qualification of opportunities and designs and produce high-level architecture and design documentation.
• Collaborate with vendors and strategic partners to drive growth and maintain a strong understanding of current and future technologies, products and strategies.
• Support colleagues within Group Strategy & Portfolio to identify and develop new propositions and services for the market.
• Provide technical governance and assurance across proposed solutions and post-sales consultancy engagements, ensuring solutions meet documented customer requirements and desired outcomes.
• Maintain high standards of technical quality, governance and compliance with internal policies and relevant industry regulations.

What you’ll need

• A strong IT infrastructure background, supported by extensive relevant experience and certifications from leading technology manufacturers and software vendors.
• A proven track record of leading large technical teams during the pre-sales and delivery phases of significant IT transformation projects.
• Experience working and communicating effectively with senior IT management and C-level executives.
• Experience delivering advisory services focused on technology strategy, business objectives and high-level roadmaps.
• The ability to lead and own the full customer engagement lifecycle, from initial customer interaction through to successful project delivery.
• Strong experience with contractual services, particularly within pre-sales, together with a clear understanding of how solution design decisions can influence ongoing business operations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft client and server infrastructure and Cloud architecture within complex enterprise customer environments and digital transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft 365 suite, including architecture, integration and solution implementation.
• Broad knowledge of Workplace solutions, including Desktop and Application Virtualisation, Collaboration Services, Modern Management, and Identity & Access Management.

Desirable experience

• Relevant Microsoft certifications across areas such as Microsoft 365, Azure, Identity & Access Management and Security.
• Experience working across complex, multi-technology enterprise environments.
• Strong vendor and partner engagement experience.
• Experience contributing to proposition or service development within a technology consultancy or IT services environment.

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

We’re a place where you can belong

With over 21,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

You’ll see this reflected in our recruitment process too. We aim to provide fair access to opportunities and an inclusive, barrier‑free experience. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the skills and experience we need.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme. If you opt in and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you’ll be guaranteed an interview, and we’re happy to support any reasonable adjustments.  Please let us know when you apply.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!