Solution Owner - Pre-Sales

Solution Owner - Pre-Sales

Position Description

At CGI, we partner with clients to deliver complex business and technology transformation programmes that create measurable value and long-term impact. As a Solution Owner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping end-to-end solutions that align business goals, operational needs, and technology strategies across large-scale programmes and high-profile client engagements.

You’ll lead collaborative architecture and stakeholder discussions, helping clients navigate complexity, manage risk, and deliver innovative solutions that drive meaningful outcomes. Working within a supportive and forward-thinking environment, you’ll influence strategic decisions, guide multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to transformative programmes that shape the future of digital services and enterprise technology.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities

In this role, you will lead the development and delivery of end-to-end solution strategies across complex programmes and client engagements. You’ll work closely with business, operational, delivery, and technical stakeholders to ensure solutions align with organisational objectives, customer outcomes, and enterprise architecture principles. Acting as a key bridge between stakeholders, you will guide architectural decision-making, manage solution risks, and ensure technology investments support both strategic and operational priorities.

You will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary architecture teams to define solution roadmaps, governance approaches, and implementation strategies across business and technology domains. You’ll contribute to bids, programmes, and transformation initiatives by providing technical leadership, shaping solution direction, and ensuring alignment between business needs, delivery capability, compliance standards, and commercial objectives. Alongside driving innovation and business value, you’ll support collaborative ways of working and contribute to continuous improvement across architecture and delivery practices.

Key responsibilities

Lead & Define end-to-end solution strategies across programmes, bids, and transformation initiatives

Collaborate & Align business, delivery, operational, and technical stakeholders around solution outcomes

Design & Model solution architectures, interfaces, and business capability landscapes

Guide & Influence architectural decisions across enterprise and project-specific solutions

Identify & Mitigate commercial, operational, and technical risks within complex programmes

Establish & Govern architecture review processes, technical assurance, and compliance strategies

Support & Deliver business cases, cost estimates, and delivery planning activities

Engage & Communicate effectively with clients, senior stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery teams

Promote & Align technology strategy with customer goals, business outcomes, and operational requirements

Lead & Support architecture teams through collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

To succeed in this role, you should have strong experience leading solution architecture or enterprise-level transformation initiatives within complex business and technology environments. You’ll bring a broad understanding of architecture practices, stakeholder management, governance, and delivery planning, alongside the ability to balance business objectives, operational considerations, technical strategy, and commercial risk. Strong communication, leadership, and client engagement skills will be essential, as you’ll work across multidisciplinary teams and influence decision-making at multiple levels.

Essential qualifications and experience

Proven experience delivering solution architecture or enterprise transformation initiatives

Strong ability to align business strategy, operational requirements, and technology solutions

Experience leading architecture teams across programmes, bids, or large-scale delivery initiatives

Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, governance, and solution design methodologies

Experience managing architectural risks, business cases, and delivery planning activities

Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills

Ability to guide architectural decision-making across complex business and technical landscapes

Experience establishing governance frameworks, technical reviews, and compliance approaches

Strong understanding of systems integration, business capabilities, and enterprise technology ecosystems

Excellent collaboration and leadership capabilities within multidisciplinary environments

Desirable experience

Experience working within regulated or security-sensitive environments

Knowledge of cloud, digital transformation, or modern enterprise platform strategies

Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or similar methodologies

Experience contributing to bids, proposals, or pre-sales solution activities

Understanding of financial modelling, commercial governance, or cost estimation practices

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.