Pre Sales AI Architect

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital‑First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

As a Pre‑Sales AI Architect, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, shaping, and securing new AI opportunities by bridging the gap between complex customer challenges and transformative, AI‑powered solutions. You will lead high‑quality bid responses for tenders seeking AI solution partners, ensuring our proposals are compelling, technically robust, and commercially sound. You will also be responsible for scoping AI delivery work, defining effort, approach, and activities that set projects up for success.

This highly consultative role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and written communication excellence. You will work closely with clients, account teams, and delivery leads to understand customer needs, craft persuasive AI solution narratives, and differentiate our offering during competitive tenders. You are expected to act as a trusted advisor to both internal teams and client stakeholders, translating real‑world challenges into scalable AI architectures that demonstrate tangible business value.

• Shape and scope AI solutions in response to client needs
• Engage with client stakeholders to uncover pain points, business drivers, and opportunities for AI‑powered transformation
• Conduct discovery sessions and assessments to define business requirements and align them with AI use cases
• Lead early scoping activities, including defining delivery phases, resource profiles, timelines, assumptions, and risks for proposed AI projects
• Design and propose AI architectures
• Translate client requirements into scalable, cloud‑based AI architectures that balance technical feasibility, business value, and delivery risk
• Propose end‑to‑end AI/ML solutions—including model design, data pipelines, MLOps, and platform integration—tailored to each opportunity
• Collaborate with delivery and engineering leads to validate feasibility, identify dependencies, and align design with execution capability
• Write and lead AI bid responses
  • Own the technical response for AI‑related RFPs, RFIs, and procurement tenders, including detailed solution overviews and architecture descriptions, technical narratives and approach justification, delivery methodology and project structure, clear scope, assumptions, estimates, and risk management
  • Craft persuasive, well‑structured bid content that highlights our expertise, solution differentiation, and alignment with tender requirements
  • Act as the technical conscience of the bid, balancing ambition with deliverability
• Articulate value, outcomes, and innovation
  • Demonstrate how proposed AI solutions will improve business performance, reduce costs, or unlock new capabilities
  • Present complex technical solutions in simple, compelling terms to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
  • Highlight innovation opportunities and ensure proposals showcase thought leadership and credibility
• Track industry trends and use cases
  • Stay ahead of market trends in Generative AI, Responsible AI, and emerging industry applications
  • Advise internal teams on evolving technologies (e.g., vector databases, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering) to strengthen future bid responses and solution designs

• Proven experience in pre‑sales, tender response writing, or client‑facing architecture roles involving AI, data science, or analytics
• Demonstrated ability to write high‑quality bid responses for complex technology or AI solution tenders
• Strong capability to scope AI/ML delivery work, including estimating effort, planning phases, and defining delivery models
• Ability to elicit business needs and convert them into AI/ML solution designs in cloud environments…