Solution Architect

Bupa; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Solution Architect to work in Staines, Salford Quays, or London. You will analyze business requirements, create technical designs, and ensure scalable solutions for healthcare delivery. Candidates should have experience in IT infrastructure, healthcare capabilities, web technologies, and modern programming languages. This full-time role offers a salary up to £85,000 plus benefits including a management bonus, health insurance, and flexible working options.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Qualifications

• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure including networks and identity management.
• Experience creating designs for high-availability systems.
• Background in web technologies and programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand business requirements to create technical designs.
• Ensure scalable and maintainable solutions for healthcare delivery.
• Engage with multiple teams to execute the technical vision.

Skills

Solution Architecture

IT infrastructure

Healthcare capabilities

Web technologies

Programming languages (Java, Spring Boot)

Education

Proven Solution Architecture experience

Tools

UML

C4

ACP

GCP

Job description

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job requisition id R1189061

Job Description:

Solution Architect – Care Services
Staines (TW18 3DZ) / Salford Quays (M50 3SP) / London (EC2R 7HJ)

Permanent

Up to £85,000 annual depending on experience

10% management bonus + other fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours per week

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''ll 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.

In order to achieve that we need to build robust, scalable, secure, and modern systems and platforms. The technology drives that agenda forward and takes an architecture-led approach by shaping the technical capabilities that will be deployed across the Bupa estate. We are innovating, integrating and orchestrating new digital experiences across our multiple and growing business lines. It supports the individual businesses that comprise Bupa who have their own ambitious plans for change and growth.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

As a Solutions Architect at Bupa, you will:

Analyses and understand business requirements, creating technical designs, solution options and proofs of concept for Bupa’s Care Services business.

Ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions in support of joined-up healthcare delivery.

Drive technology change for a specific Bupa business or business initiative.

Engage with multiple teams both inside and outside the Architecture function to work on the execution of the technical vision.

Consider the options to solve business challenges through many lenses; Engineering, Business, Security, Data and Operations.

Recommend solutions based on time to value, overall costs and risks and strategic fit.

Build strong, collaborative relationships with our partner organizations, helping to align our technical efforts with external needs.

Clearly and crisply communicate and contribute to architectural decisions, plans, and standards for the products we create and support.

Engage with design governance early and often so that solution designs meet peer review and meet control obligations with the minimum of fuss.

You won’t be doing glorified technical design work, we have talented engineers for that.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Broad understanding of IT infrastructure (networks, telephony, identity and access management).

Ideally, working knowledge of healthcare capabilities (e.g., electronic care planning, medication administration).

Deep industry knowledge would be high advantageous, but we understand that smart people can learn quickly.

You can demonstrate the ability to create Solution designs for high-availability systems and cloud native 3rd party solutions using notation like UML and C4.

Your strong background in web technologies and modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, React JS and React Native) coupled with hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly ACP and GCP including PaaS design and workload migration will allow you to hold conversations with gifted developers.

Your expertise in building scalable, secure, and resilient data architectures using modern architecture practices such as microservices, API-led design, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native patterns will allow you to set technology direction.

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 Description:

Solution Architect – Care Services
Staines (TW18 3DZ) / Salford Quays (M50 3SP) / London (EC2R 7HJ)

Hybrid working

Permanent

Up to £85,000 annual depending on experience

10% management bonus + other fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours per week

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''ll 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.

In order to achieve that we need to build robust, scalable, secure, and modern systems and platforms. The technology drives that agenda forward and takes an architecture-led approach by shaping the technical capabilities that will be deployed across the Bupa estate. We are innovating, integrating and orchestrating new digital experiences across our multiple and growing business lines. It supports the individual businesses that comprise Bupa who have their own ambitious plans for change and growth.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

As a Solutions Architect at Bupa, you will:

• Analyses and understand business requirements, creating technical designs, solution options and proofs of concept for Bupa’s Care Services business.

• Ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions in support of joined-up healthcare delivery.

• Drive technology change for a specific Bupa business or business initiative.

• Engage with multiple teams both inside and outside the Architecture function to work on the execution of the technical vision.

• Consider the options to solve business challenges through many lenses; Engineering, Business, Security, Data and Operations.

• Recommend solutions based on time to value, overall costs and risks and strategic fit.

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with our partner organizations, helping to align our technical efforts with external needs.

• Clearly and crisply communicate and contribute to architectural decisions, plans, and standards for the products we create and support.

• Engage with design governance early and often so that solution designs meet peer review and meet control obligations with the minimum of fuss.

• You won’t be doing glorified technical design work, we have talented engineers for that.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• You can demonstrate proven Solution Architecture experience

• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure (networks, telephony, identity and access management).

• Ideally, working knowledge of healthcare capabilities (e.g., electronic care planning, medication administration).

• Deep industry knowledge would be high advantageous, but we understand that smart people can learn quickly.

• You can demonstrate the ability to create Solution designs for high-availability systems and cloud native 3rd party solutions using notation like UML and C4.

• Your strong background in web technologies and modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, React JS and React Native) coupled with hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly ACP and GCP including PaaS design and workload migration will allow you to hold conversations with gifted developers.

• Your expertise in building scalable, secure, and resilient data architectures using modern architecture practices such as microservices, API-led design, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native patterns will allow you to set technology direction.

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