Solution Architect, Secondary Care

Bupa UK; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Life insurance

Onsite gyms

Local discounts

Job summary

Bupa seeks a Solution Architect to lead architecture for complex healthcare solutions across multiple sites. The role requires delivering end-to-end designs and governance, aligning with strategy and stakeholder needs.

You will influence design decisions, set standards, and guide delivery teams. The position offers hybrid working patterns in a digital healthcare environment at scale.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Defining and governing end to end solution architectures for strategically significant initiatives.
• Providing authoritative solution architecture guidance to delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading feasibility assessments, architectural option analysis and business case input, influencing design and investment decisions.
• Demonstrable equivalent professional experience gained through senior solution architecture roles

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
• Establish policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
• Manage trade-offs and balance 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 the development of specialist knowledge in the organisation.
• Develop and drive adoption of and adherence to organisational policies, standards, guidelines and methods for system design.
• Champion the importance and value of system design principles and the selection of appropriate systems design life cycle models.
• Lead system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes.
• Develop effective implementation strategies consistent with specified requirements, architectures and constraints of performance and feasibility.
• Develop system design requiring the introduction of new technologies or new uses for existing technologies

Skills

Solution architecture

Systems design

Healthcare experience

Leadership

Feasibility assessments

Business case input

Senior stakeholder guidance

Job description

Permanent: hybrid, up to 3 days WFH

Salary from: £73.5k + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week
We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Job Description
Solution Architect, Secondary Care
Manchester, Leeds, Staines, London
Permanent: hybrid, up to 3 days WFH
Salary from: £73.5k + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits
37.5 hours per week
We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.
We make health happen
At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.
Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.
How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen

• Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements
• Establish policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components
• Manage trade-offs and balance 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 the development of specialist knowledge in the organisation
• Develop and drive adoption of and adherence to organisational policies, standards, guidelines and methods for system design
• Champion the importance and value of system design principles and the selection of appropriate systems design life cycle models
• Lead system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes
• Develop effective implementation strategies consistent with specified requirements, architectures and constraints of performance and feasibility
• Develop system design requiring the introduction of new technologies or new uses for existing technologies
  

What You’ll Bring

• 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
• Defining and governing end to end solution architectures for strategically significant initiatives
• Providing authoritative solution architecture guidance to delivery teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading feasibility assessments, architectural option analysis and business case input, influencing design and investment decisions
• Demonstrable equivalent professional experience gained through senior solution architecture roles
  

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
• 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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [e-mail]
Time Type
Full time
Job Area
IT
Locations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place