Solution Owner - Pre-Sales

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.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of end-to-end solution strategies across complex programmes and client engagements.
• Work closely with business, operational, delivery, and technical stakeholders to ensure solutions align with organisational objectives, customer outcomes, and enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as a key bridge between stakeholders, guiding architectural decision-making, managing solution risks, and ensuring technology investments support both strategic and operational priorities.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary architecture teams to define solution roadmaps, governance approaches, and implementation strategies across business and technology domains.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills:

• Client management
• Cost Management
• Infrastructure
• Process Management
• Solutions Architecture
• Stakeholder management
• Technical Analysis

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. 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.