Senior Data & AI Solutions Architect (National-scale)

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape and deliver scalable data, platform and AI-enabled capabilities at national scale. The role focuses on translating strategic objectives into practical architectural patterns while ensuring compliance with security, governance and clinical safety standards.

The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams across product, engineering, data, and governance to create reusable patterns, auditable data flows and robust integration

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of solution architectures for scalable data, platform and AI-enabled capabilities across NHSE, ensuring designs are modular, interoperable, reusable and aligned to enterprise architecture, data, security, information governance, clinical safety & assurance standards
• Translate strategic objectives into practical architecture patterns, delivery guardrails, reusable components and implementation approaches that support operational insight, advanced analytics, research, intelligent automation and future platform extensibility
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary product, engineering, data, clinical safety, information governance, research governance, supplier and enterprise architecture teams, ensuring that architecture decisions are clearly understood and effectively applied
• Shape and assure designs for intelligent orchestration, governed data access, reusable APIs, data products, integration patterns, auditability, monitoring, access controls and appropriate human oversight mechanisms
• Support the development and reuse of architecture principles, reference patterns, design standards and technical guardrails that enable consistent, safe and scalable delivery across multiple products and use cases.

Job description

NHS England is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to shape and deliver scalable data, platform and AI-enabled capabilities at national scale. The role focuses on translating strategic objectives into practical architectural patterns while ensuring compliance with security, governance and clinical safety standards.

The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams across product, engineering, data, and governance to create reusable patterns, auditable data flows and robust integration