Solution Architect

Nuffield Health Group; Ewell; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the technical discovery across hospital, fitness, and community platforms. You will define target architectures, map dependencies, and design scalable, secure solutions aligned to enterprise strategy.

Responsibilities include API-centric integrations, Salesforce CRM considerations, and collaboration with delivery teams and third-party vendors to ensure practical, deliverable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and delivering Healthcare systems.
• Experience in healthcare transformation and service modernisation.
• Strong knowledge of API-centric architectures and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and analyse existing applications, platforms and infrastructure.
• Define target architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and programme objectives.
• Design and lead system integrations, including APIs and data exchange mechanisms.
• Present designs to Technical Design Authority (TDA) and obtain approval.
• Collaborate with delivery teams, SMEs and vendors to ensure solutions are deliverable.
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions and dependencies throughout the lifecycle.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and maintainable.
• Provide architectural assurance and guidance during transition to delivery.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Healthcare systems

API integration

Salesforce

Data mapping

Stakeholder communication

Technical leadership

Tools

Salesforce

CRM platforms

Job description

• Lead technical discovery, analysing existing applications, platforms, and infrastructure across the estate
• Develop a clear understanding of current-state architecture, including dependencies, data flows, and integration points
• Define target and transitional architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and programme objectives
• Assess how systems and services need to be adapted, enhanced, or replaced to meet future capability needs
• Design and lead system integrations, including APIs, messaging patterns, and data exchange mechanisms
• Create high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, diagrams, and interface specifications
• Collaborate with delivery teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers to ensure solutions are practical and deliverable
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the lifecycle
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable
• Present designs to Technical Design Authority (TDA), incorporating feedback and securing approval
• Support the transition into delivery, providing ongoing architectural assurance and guidance

You'll bring strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and transformation experience across enterprise platforms.

• Proven experience designing and delivering Healthcare systems, ideally within complex enterprise environments
• Experience in Healthcare transformation and service modernisation
• Experience of digital transformation and modernisation of services
• Experience working with third-party solution providers and vendors
• Experience of commercial CRM application portfolios, especially Salesforce
• Experience of data mapping and standardisation
• A track record of using technical architecture and principles to improve the end user experience and backend functionality of products and platforms
• Strong knowledge of API-centric architectures and integration strategies
• Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver against tight timelines
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Confidence operating across organisational, technical, and stakeholder boundaries
• A strategic mindset, able to see the bigger picture and align architecture to long-term business objectives

Nuffield Health is building a healthier nation through its hospitals, fitness centres, and community programmes, all focused on improving the UK's wellbeing.

We're committed to delivering outstanding customer and patient experiences, with digital services at the heart of this ambition. Driven by purpose and quality, we put people first, starting with you.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.