Pre Sales AI Architect

Company Description

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.

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do.

• UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3,300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

Role Overview

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. A core part of this role is leading 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. Your work will directly support sales growth by shaping solution designs, estimating effort and risk, producing high‑quality tender responses, and ensuring our proposals are both innovative and deliverable.

• 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.
• 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
• St…