Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care

Bupa; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension and life insurance

Annual performance-based bonus

Onsite gym or local discounts

Job summary

Bupa is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape and govern the technology strategy for its UK Secondary Care services. The role blends legacy systems with modern cloud-native approaches and requires collaboration with IT leadership to align roadmaps and standards.

You will guide architecture across care platforms, ensure compliance with data and security standards, and contribute to the Architecture Community of Practice within BGIUK.

Qualifications

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with CxO-level stakeholder engagement.
• Strong understanding of EA frameworks and design patterns.
• Experience in cloud-native, API-first architectures.
• Knowledge of healthcare data regulations (HL7, FHIR, OpenEHR).

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the technology strategy for UK Secondary Care in collaboration with IT leadership.
• Evolve architecture roadmaps for critical systems and enable seamless integration across care platforms.
• Support due diligence and integration of new services with a focus on cloud and API-first solutions.
• Strengthen solution architecture capabilities within the Secondary Care IT team and ensure governance.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Solution architecture

Governance & compliance

Healthcare data standards

DevOps/CI/CD

Job description

Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care

Hybrid - 1-2 days onsite per week

Location: London, Salford, or Staines.

Permanent

We make health happen

At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world's most customer‑centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world. As a leader in the healthcare industry, our aim is to leverage cutting‑edge technology to innovate and enhance our services, ensuring exceptional experiences for our customers. We believe that the key to success lies in our people. We are committed to creating an environment where our employees can thrive. At Bupa you will find a culture that values diversity, inclusion and personal growth. We strive to make Bupa a place to work, grow and make a meaningful impact to the lives of millions and drive change towards a healthier world

As an Enterprise Architect (EA), you'll bring a consultant mindset and the agility to thrive in a dynamic environment that blends legacy systems with cutting‑edge digital technologies. You'll play a key role in guiding and advising our Solution Architects, ensuring alignment and quality across lower‑level design implementations.

In this role within BGIUK, you'll also contribute to the ongoing development of our Architecture Community of Practice-sharing your insights, experience, and expertise to help shape and mature our architectural standards and practices across the organisation.

How you'll help us make health happen

• Shape and deliver the technology strategy for Bupa's UK Secondary Care services in collaboration with IT leadership.
• Maintain and evolve architecture roadmaps for critical systems, ensuring seamless integration across care platforms.
• Support technical due diligence and integration of new services, with a focus on cloud and API‑first solutions.
• Guide and strengthen solution architecture capabilities within the Secondary Care IT team.
• Ensure governance, compliance, and alignment with data, security, risk, and legal standards.
• Contribute to high‑quality, pattern‑led solution design and resolve technical or regulatory challenges as needed.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with a strong track record of leading transformation initiatives and engaging CxO‑level stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and design patterns.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to operate end‑to‑end‑from high‑level vision to hands‑on implementation.
• Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive change across complex organisations.
• Broad knowledge of modern IT software, cloud platforms, and critical infrastructure within distributed systems.
• Proven ability to evangelise and promote the adoption of new technologies and architectural approaches.
• Familiarity with healthcare data regulations and interoperability standards such as HL7, FHIR, and OpenEHR.
• Background in product‑centric, agile environments with experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud‑native architectures.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance‑based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: IT

Locations: Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House