Infrastructure and Cloud Services Solution Architect

THE ROYAL MARSDEN; Sutton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cancer care organization in Sutton is seeking a Solution Architect to guide the design and evolution of critical hybrid infrastructure systems. This role entails managing cloud and on-premises technologies, ensuring compliance with NHS standards, and collaborating effectively with technical teams. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in cloud architecture and infrastructure design, strong leadership capabilities, and excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders. This position offers a dynamic work environment with significant impact on patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development opportunities

Wide range of staff benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in leading hybrid infrastructure strategies.
• Proficient in designing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.
• Strong communication skills for conveying complex information to non-technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud and infrastructure solutions for clinical operations.
• Oversee compliance with NHS standards.
• Collaborate with teams on detailed business requirements.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure design

Technical governance

Supplier management

Complex issue resolution

Education

Relevant technical degree

Tools

Cloud (IaaS/PaaS) technologies

NHS regulatory standards

Job description

Are you ready to shape the future of hybrid infrastructure for a world leading cancer centre? Royal Marsden Digital Services is looking for a Solution Architect to guide the design and evolution of our critical systems. This role blends robust on premise foundations with modern Cloud (IaaS/PaaS) innovation, ensuring our clinical teams have reliable, high performing tools that support life saving care.

Why Join Us?

• Lead hybrid infrastructure strategy, aligning on premise and cloud environments to support 24/7 clinical operations.
• Design scalable, secure infrastructure solutions across physical, virtual and cloud layers.
• Drive cloud native adoption and automation to enhance performance and agility.
• Oversee technical governance, ensuring compliance with NHS security and regulatory standards.
• Manage supplier relationships, ensuring strong performance and value.
• Lead resolution of complex architectural issues across cloud and on prem systems.
• Collaborate with developers and partners to ensure new applications are designed effectively for our environment.

The Infrastructure and Cloud Services Solution Architect at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust plays a pivotal role in assessing, designing, delivering, and supporting reliable, resilient, and secure cloud and on‑premises system and infrastructure technology solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture and digital services technology strategy. This role involves leadership in technical design, governance, and operational problem management, ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders and service providers.

The post holder serves as the technical authority for all cloud and on‑premises system and infrastructure technology dependent projects and changes, ensuring alignment with the Trust Roadmap for clinical and corporate services.

Technical Leadership and Design Responsibilities

• Lead as the technical infrastructure design authority across all cloud and on‑premises hosting.
• Lead as a subject matter expert during technical infrastructure major incidents and operational problem management.
• Provide technical direction and solutions for cloud and on‑premises hosting services aligned to key business requirements and strategy.
• Support the preparation of business cases for cloud and on‑premises infrastructure solutions, considering infrastructure, licences, development, delivery and support costs.
• Work closely with project and technical teams to review, interpret and respond to detailed business requirement specifications, to ensure alignment between customers' expectations and current and future technology capabilities.
• Communicating highly complex technical infrastructure matters to senior non-technical staff clearly and in a manner whereby they can fully understand the issues and implications.
• Propose and enforce infrastructure policy, standards and service changes which may have beneficial impact.
• Maintain expertise in cloud and on‑premises hosting infrastructure technologies to ensure that cost-effective solutions and processes are deployed and aligned with business direction.

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of Our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the utmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient‑facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Please ensure your information is accurate to avoid errors with processing your application.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world‑leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on‑going achievements.