Solution Architect – Secondary Care

Jobtailor; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to drive architectures for complex healthcare technology programs. You will lead system design, establish policies, and guide large multi-project initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic requirements and stakeholder needs.

You will communicate decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, mentor teams, and shape the design lifecycle and adoption of best practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in solution architecture and systems design in healthcare
• Proven leadership of large or complex solution architectures spanning multiple projects
• Experience defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for major initiatives
• Experience providing authoritative solution architecture guidance to delivery teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading feasibility assessments, architectural option analysis and business case input
• Experience influencing design and investment decisions
• Equivalent senior solution architecture experience accepted

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions, ensuring consistency with requirements
• Establish policies, principles and practices for selecting solution architecture components
• Manage trade-offs among functional, service quality and systems management requirements
• Communicate proposed decisions to stakeholders using technical and non-technical language
• Provide organisational leadership and guidelines to promote specialist knowledge
• Develop and drive adoption of organisational policies, standards, guidelines and methods for system design
• Champion system design principles and selection of appropriate system design life-cycle models
• Lead system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes
• Develop effective implementation strategies consistent with requirements, architectures and performance constraints
• Develop system designs involving new technologies or new uses for existing technologies

Skills

Solution Architecture

Systems Design

Leadership

Stakeholder Communication

Decision Influence

Policy Development

Feasibility Assessment

Architectural Option Analysis

Business Case Development

Tools

Healthcare Technology Tools

Job description

• Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions, ensuring consistency with agreed requirements


• Establish policies, principles and practices for selecting solution architecture components


• Manage trade-offs among functional, service quality and systems management requirements


• Communicate proposed decisions to stakeholders using technical and non-technical language


• Provide organisational leadership and guidelines to promote specialist knowledge


• Develop and drive adoption of organisational policies, standards, guidelines and methods for system design


• Champion system design principles and selection of appropriate system design life-cycle models


• Lead system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes


• Develop effective implementation strategies consistent with requirements, architectures and performance and feasibility constraints


• Develop system designs involving new technologies or new uses for existing technologies

Requirements

• Extensive experience in solution architecture, systems design or complex technology delivery in a healthcare environment


• Proven leadership of large or complex solution architectures, often spanning multiple projects or programmes


• Experience defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for strategically significant initiatives


• Experience providing authoritative solution architecture guidance to delivery teams and senior stakeholders


• Experience leading feasibility assessments, architectural option analysis and business case input


• Experience influencing design and investment decisions


• Demonstrable equivalent professional experience gained through senior solution architecture roles


• Ability to work 37.5 hours per week

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in solution architecture and systems design within a healthcare environment, leading complex technology delivery and influencing strategic decisions. Proven ability to establish policies and guidelines for system design while effectively communicating with diverse stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Solution Architecture


• Systems Design


• Healthcare Technology Delivery


• Leadership of Complex Solutions


• Stakeholder Communication

Hard Skills

• Solution Architecture


• Systems Design


• Feasibility Assessment


• Architectural Option Analysis


• Business Case Development

Soft Skills

• Organisational Leadership


• Influencing Decisions


• Communication Skills

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare Environment


• System Design Principles


• End-to-End Solution Architectures


• Strategically Significant Initiatives