Bid Solution ArchitectContract Duration: 5 monthsWorking Days: 3 days per weekLocation: Hybrid - LondonJoin our team at Reed Professional Services, a leading Management Consultancy and technology services provider. We are currently seeking a Bid Solution Architect for a major public-sector bid project. This part-time, hybrid role is based in London and spans 5 months, requiring a commitment of 3 days per week.Day-to-Day of the Role:Own and assure the end-to-end solution architecture for the bid submission.Produce and validate architectural artefacts including high-level and low-level diagrams, integration, deployment, and hosting models, and security architecture views.Ensure technical designs are scalable, supportable, secure, and contract-ready.Assure the full scheduling system architecture, focusing on performance and resilience.Validate integration assumptions, API patterns, data flows, and control mechanisms.Ensure system observability, failover, and peak-load behavior are credible and evidenced.Design or validate security controls across application, infrastructure, and operations.Ensure alignment of IAM, encryption, logging, and incident controls with bid commitments.Validate technical incident flows and recovery behavior.Test assumptions for resilience, failover, and service continuity.Validate that infrastructure, hosting, and software costs match the proposed design.Identify unfunded assumptions, delivery risks, or over-ambitious non-functional claims.Provide ..... full job details .....