Senior Solutions Architect, Smart Campus

Location: UK (with travel to Cambridgeshire and customer sites as required)
Shape the Future of Smart Campuses
At Boldyn Networks, we're transforming the way people connect, work and innovate through world-class digital infrastructure.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Solutions Architect, Smart Campus to join our Technology team. This is a high-profile opportunity to lead the development of strategic Smart Campus and Connected Infrastructure solutions, including a landmark project within a world-leading life sciences and research environment in Cambridgeshire.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of customer engagement, solution architecture, technology strategy and commercial opportunity development. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders, helping customers translate their ambitions into practical, innovative and commercially viable solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
As a trusted advisor and solution leader, you will:
Lead Customer Discovery & Engagement
Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews.
Capture business, operational and technical requirements and translate them into solution outcomes.
Build relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including executive and C-suite audiences.
Present complex technical concepts in a clear and engaging way.
Document requirements, assumptions, dependencies, risks and decisions.
Shape Smart Campus Solutions
Design end-to-end Smart Campus and Connected Infrastructure solutions.
Define architectures across fibre, LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, internet connectivity and network security.
Develop technology roadmaps, concept designs and phased deployment approaches.
Evaluate vendor technologies and specialist partner capabilities.
Ensure solutions are realistic, supportable and aligned with operational and delivery requirements.
Drive Strategic Pursuits & Proposals
Support major opportunities from initial concept through to proposal submission.
Create solution scopes, technical responses and customer-facing proposal content.
Coordinate technical inputs from engineering teams, suppliers and partners.
Develop high-quality bid documentation, presentations and executive briefings.
Support business cases, investment papers and customer decision-making processes.
Coordinate Internal & External Stakeholders
Work closely with Account Management, Engineering, Delivery, Commercial, Finance and Operations teams.
Align suppliers, consultants and technology partners around solution objectives.
Provide technical assurance across partner-led workstreams.
Manage solution risks, dependencies and delivery assumptions throughout the bid lifecycle.
Build the Future Smart Campus Proposition
Create repeatable frameworks, templates and solution patterns.
Develop compelling customer narratives around digital infrastructure, operational efficiency and data-enabled environments.
Capture lessons learned and help enhance Boldyn's Smart Campus offering for future opportunities.
What Success Looks Like
In this role, you'll play a key part in:
Mobilising a major Smart Campus opportunity in Cambridgeshire.
Converting customer requirements into compelling, proposal-ready solutions.
Improving the quality, consistency and repeatability of Smart Campus bids.
Strengthening Boldyn's consultative presales and solution development capability.
Developing scalable propositions that can be deployed across multiple strategic opportunities.
About You
We're looking for a commercially aware solutions professional who combines technical credibility with excellent stakeholder management skills.
Essential Experience
Proven success in senior customer-facing solution architecture, consulting, presales or technical commercial roles.
Experience within telecommunications, enterprise networking, digital infrastructure, Smart Campus or connected places environments.
Strong workshop facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
Experience developing complex technical proposals, scopes of work and customer presentations.
Ability to operate independently with senior customer and executive stakeholders.
Experience coordinating internal technical teams, suppliers and specialist partners.
Technical Expertise
You'll have strong knowledge across several of the following areas:
Fibre and fixed communications infrastructure
Enterprise networking (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi)
SD-WAN and internet connectivity
Network security
Campus networking and infrastructure
Solution governance and delivery assurance
Bid and proposal development
Desirable Experience
Smart Campus solutions
Smart Buildings and Building Management Systems
IoT and connected sensor platforms
Digital Twin technologies
Environmental monitoring systems
Occupancy and workplace management solutions
Life sciences, research campus or higher education environments
Audio Visual and collaboration technologies
Why Join Boldyn?
This is an opportunity to work on some of the UK's most ambitious digital infrastructure programmes whilst helping shape the future of Smart Campus solutions.
You'll join a collaborative team that combines technical innovation, commercial expertise and customer focus to deliver transformative outcomes for our clients.
If you're passionate about solving complex challenges, engaging with senior stakeholders and creating next-generation connected environments, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help build the campuses of tomorrow. today and help build the campuses of tomorrow.