Senior Solutions Architect, Boldyn Networks

• We're looking for a commercially aware solutions professional who combines technical credibility with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Proven success in senior customer-facing solution architecture, consulting, presales or technical commercial roles
• Experience within telecommunications, enterprise networking, digital infrastructure, Smart Campus or connected places environments
• Strong workshop facilitation and requirements gathering skills
• Experience developing complex technical proposals, scopes of work and customer presentations
• Ability to operate independently with senior customer and executive stakeholders
• Experience coordinating internal technical teams, suppliers and specialist partners
• Fibre and fixed communications infrastructure
• Enterprise networking (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi)
• SD-WAN and internet connectivity
• Network security
• Campus networking and infrastructure
• Solution governance and delivery assurance
• Bid and proposal development

Desirable

• We're looking for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect, Smart Campus to join our Technology team
• This is a high-profile opportunity to lead the development of strategic Smart Campus and Connected Infrastructure solutions, including a landmark project within a world-leading life sciences and research environment in Cambridgeshire
• This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of customer engagement, solution architecture, technology strategy and commercial opportunity development
• You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, helping customers translate their ambitions into practical, innovative and commercially viable solutions
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews
• Capture business, operational and technical requirements and translate them into solution outcomes
• Build relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including executive and C-suite audiences
• Present complex technical concepts in a clear and engaging way
• Document requirements, assumptions, dependencies, risks and decisions
• Design end-to-end Smart Campus and Connected Infrastructure solutions
• Define architectures across fibre, LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, internet connectivity and network security
• Develop technology roadmaps, concept designs and phased deployment approaches
• Evaluate vendor technologies and specialist partner capabilities
• Ensure solutions are realistic, supportable and aligned with operational and delivery requirements
• Support major opportunities from initial concept through to proposal submission
• Create solution scopes, technical responses and customer-facing proposal content
• Coordinate technical inputs from engineering teams, suppliers and partners
• Develop high-quality bid documentation, presentations and executive briefings
• Support business cases, investment papers and customer decision-making processes
• Work closely with Account Management, Engineering, Delivery, Commercial, Finance and Operations teams
• Align suppliers, consultants and technology partners around solution objectives
• Provide technical assurance across partner-led workstreams
• Manage solution risks, dependencies and delivery assumptions throughout the bid lifecycle
• Create repeatable frameworks, templates and solution patterns
• Develop compelling customer narratives around digital infrastructure, operational efficiency and data-enabled environments
• Capture lessons learned and help enhance Boldyn's Smart Campus offering for future opportunities
• ---What Success Looks Like---
• In this role, you'll play a key part in:
• Mobilising a major Smart Campus opportunity in Cambridgeshire
• Converting customer requirements into compelling, proposal-ready solutions
• Improving the quality, consistency and repeatability of Smart Campus bids
• Strengthening Boldyn's consultative presales and solution development capability
• Developing scalable propositions that can be deployed across multiple strategic opportunities