Solution Director: Engineering (Birmingham)

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We’re on a mission to close the world’s tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world.

You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow.

As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions.

• Build a deep understanding of the client’s core business, strategy, and ambitions, identifying where technology and modern engineering approaches can unlock value.
• Nurture relationships to build a network within the client, developing insight into their business, needs, and challenges.
• Guide, advise, and influence on how technology—across cloud, AI, integration, and full stack engineering—can help address their challenges.
• Input and partake in data-based conversations and work with the Data Solution Director to make sound recommendations to clients.
• Provide clients with tangible examples of how you have deployed AI in an engineering capacity.
• Identify opportunities where we can help develop and build the right solutions for the client, including helping the client to build the business case internally.
• Support the development of proposals and shaping of opportunities for both existing clients (with the Head of Client Services) and new potential clients (with CP), playing a key role in presenting our technical capabilities and engineering excellence to build client confidence.
• Fully understand our propositions and solutions delivered to other clients, particularly in areas of domain expertise such as modern application development, full stack architectures, and platform engineering.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, data, DevOps, and cloud).
• Provide recommendations on how we can leverage AI-based solutions to improve, enhance, expedite solutions and/or engineering practices.
• Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice.
• Actively provide feedback on our propositions to help maintain, develop, and evolve them as needed.
• Contribute to the development of the Practice Area through sharing best practices, reusable assets, and refining methodologies—particularly in areas of software architecture, full stack engineering frameworks, and delivery models.
• Guide and develop ANDis on engagements, in their Practice Areas and Clubs, helping to grow and elevate technical capabilities across the business.
• Mentor engineers and architects in modern engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Why join AND Digital? We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. 25 days bookable holiday + flexible.