Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care

Bupa; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Health insurance

Enhanced pension

Annual bonus

Onsite gyms / local discounts

Other benefits

Job summary

Bupa is seeking an Enterprise Architect for UK Secondary Care to shape technology strategy and drive architecture across care platforms. The role combines business insight with hands-on architectural leadership to align legacy systems with modern cloud-native solutions.

You will collaborate with IT leadership, guide Architecture Community of Practice, and ensure governance and compliance while delivering scalable, secure designs across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with leadership of transformation initiatives
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and design patterns
• Background in product-centric, agile environments with DevOps experience

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the technology strategy for Bupa's UK Secondary Care services
• Maintain and evolve architecture roadmaps for critical systems
• Support technical due diligence and integration of new services (cloud and API-first)
• Guide and strengthen solution architecture capabilities within the Secondary Care IT team
• Ensure governance, compliance with data, security, risk and legal standards
• Contribute to high-quality, pattern-led solution design and resolve challenges as needed

Skills

Enterprise architecture

CxO stakeholder management

Frameworks & standards

Strategic thinking

Consultative skills

Cloud platforms

HL7/FHIR/OpenEHR

DevOps / CI/CD

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

HL7

FHIR

OpenEHR

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