Solution Owner

Job description

Join Our Team as a Solution Owner for Defence and Governance Services!

Are you ready to tackle a dynamic role where you can find yourself at the forefront of crafting innovative IT solutions for the Police, Government, and Defence sectors? We are seeking a versatile and proactive IT Solutions Owner to join our Solutions Architecture Team within our esteemed IT department.

As a Solution Owner, you'll play a pivotal role in driving the ownership and governance of solutions across the business. Your prime accountability will be to analyse business requirements and transform them into meticulously costed solutions and approaches. You'll be the linchpin between technology leads and the business sector, ensuring seamless communication and alignment of priorities.

What you will be doing:

• Own the entire IT solution proposition, encompassing application, technology, service, and security whilst maintaining a comprehensive view of project and programme pipelines, finding opportunities and ensuring smooth transitions to solution delivery.
• Collaborate closely with partners to identify solution requirements and develop key case studies for future solutions.
• Lead scoping efforts for projects, attending discovery meetings and capturing crucial technical and business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of bid and IT change processes, giving to enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.

What you will bring:

• Proficiency in API Management solutions.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure and applications, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.
• A deep understanding of integration techniques, particularly APIs, ensuring practical and effective solution integrations.
• Proficiency in solution modeling, or the ability to clearly communicate solution diagrams.

It would be great if you had:

• Previous experience as a Pre-Sales Solution Architect, Technical Pre-Sales, or similar roles.
• Experience working with enterprise solutions and multiple partners.Previous roles in outsourced IT service businesses, especially within Defence, Police, or Government sectors.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Proven track record of influencing and persuading customers at all levels.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, hybrid. 1-2x per month in the office.
Location: Flexible based on your location
Security Clearance Level: SC & NVPPV2
Internal Recruiter: Stina
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings - providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.

We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. 'Living SSCL' means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.