Solution Director: Engineering in Reading

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. Since 2014, we’ve worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability.

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.

• Exploring client problems: Act as a high-level trusted advisor for equivalent C-suite stakeholders in your area of expertise (CPO/CTO/CDO), providing expert guidance and influencing their thinking and 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.
• Advise and guide strategy and solutions thinking: Proactively engage and spend time with clients to understand and explore their needs and pain points, exploring options, proposed solutions, and providing ongoing expert advice. Guide, advise, and influence on how technology—across cloud, data, integration, and full stack engineering—can help address their challenges. Constructively challenge client thinking to set them on the right path to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Identify opportunities and support deal development: 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.
• Solution design: Inspire and support the client by providing a vision and defining their business and technical requirements. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, data, DevOps, and cloud). Guide and mentor build teams, overseeing solution design and delivery to ensure it aligns with the original vision and delivers expected business value. Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice.
• Develop our propositions and Practice Area IP: 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.
• Team leadership and development: 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.

Key performance metrics for this role:

• Account Growth: Expected contribution to development and growth of the account: driving a greater share of client spend. Build client trust by providing high-value technical insights and strategic advice, developing deep credibility and trust at senior levels. Achieve 50% utilisation: this is expected to be a billable role.
• Technical Excellence and Solution Quality: Ensure technical integrity, robustness, and effectiveness of solutions delivered to clients. Bring deep expertise across engineering and architecture, advocating for best practices and modern full stack solution design. Directly influence the quality of work delivered through high-quality technical leadership and design governance.

We’re building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we’re organised into regional ‘Clubs’ of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole.

Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays
• Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice).
• Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you.
• Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Eye test + first pair of glasses.
• Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave.

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We’re actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.