Solution Director: Engineering in Manchester

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. AND Digital is a tech company dedicated to accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Since 2014, we have supported organisations in building better digital products and stronger digital teams. We believe our work should always create a remarkable impact for our clients. Through our regional offices, known as ‘Clubs,’ we build strong relationships with our partners, ensuring they are prioritised by teams located nearby. This unique model has driven success for both our clients and ourselves, reflected in our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today, we are over 1,300 people strong, with Clubs across the UK, Europe, and the USA—and plans for global expansion in the coming years. Join us and help fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

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.
  • 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.
• 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.

We have three core values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By Joining AND, We’ll Provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• The benefits of having a small company feel through being part of an autonomous Club, while being able to take in the benefits of a larger organisation.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Flexible bank holidays
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such as Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• Private medical insurance
• 6% employer pension contribution, when you contribute 2%
• PLUS many more

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.