Principal Architect APIs & Integration

Bupa; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Principal Architect for APIs to shape their technology landscape and drive innovation. This role offers the opportunity to influence API strategies and operations across multiple business units, while supporting their mission to enhance customer experiences. Candidates should possess a robust background in API architecture, leadership capabilities, and a passion for healthcare improvement.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Bupa medical insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Life insurance

Free health assessment

Target bonus of 25%

Company car allowance

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Significant experience with API-based systems and architecture.
• Experience leading in a large organization.
• Deep knowledge of current API Operations and Security.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the overall API technology strategy and governance.
• Drive technical alignment across the API design community.
• Communicate architecture direction aligned with business strategy.

Skills

API Operations

API Security

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Creative Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

DevOps Methodologies

Product Design

Education

Experience in architecture leadership

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description:

Principal Architect APIs & integration
London / Manchester / 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 the Principal Architect for APIs, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our systems and processes are aligned with our strategic goals. This role is crucial in driving innovation and enhancing our services to provide exceptional experiences for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the overall Internal and External APIs Technology Strategy and external developer experience.

• Specify standards, patterns, platform technology (e.g., API Gateways), API governance, and target state for effective at-scale market-unit-wide API management capabilities.

• Drive technical alignment across the API design community, including Enterprise, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, which spans multiple Business Units (BUs).

• Educate senior leadership (technology and business) to raise understanding of API-led technology architecture.

• Analyze industry trends to leverage technology and methodology advances.

• Set KPIs and perform progress tracking and reporting against target state and API controls.

• Participate in CTAO Leadership forums, conducting QA and Review of architecture deliverables and strategic API contracts.

• Serve as the single point of contact and escalation for architecture development across business units and with senior business and technology leadership.

• Communicate architecture direction and its alignment with business strategy and enterprise direction.

• Track progress and quality of architecture initiatives.

• Support business development activities and translate this to strategic API capability build for BGIUK’s Partnership strategy.

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience as an architecture practitioner with designing, operating, and evolving API-based systems, and redesigning applications to be API-driven.

• Experience in an architecture leadership role in a large organization servicing multiple internal business lines with both centralized and federated platforms.

• Expertise in modernizing large, complex API/microservices-based systems.

• Strong problem-solving, strategic, and creative thinking skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Deep and current experience in API Operations and Security, API Traffic Management, and in designing, building, and testing APIs.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.

• Proven track record of influencing, motivating, and developing technology and product teams without having direct line management responsibilities.

• Strong product design and development experience in a product-centric and agile environment.

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 medical insurance for you and your family as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Free health assessment for you and your spouse

• Target bonus of 25% based on individual and company performance

• Company car allowance

• 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 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.

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Time Type:

Full time

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Locations:

Angel Court, London