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Platform Architect - Commerce & Account Management

Barbican/Hybrid | Technology | Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that's building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes - we'll do whatever it takes to look after the UK's wellbeing. Our ambition is to deliver the best possible customer and patient experience. Our digital services are core to achieving that goal. Our ambitions start with passion and commitment to quality. They start with you.

Join us as a Platform Architect in our technology team and play your part in building a healthier nation.

As a Platform Architect at Nuffield Health you will be responsible for the design and creation of technical and solution architecture, and act as a design authority within your platform. The Platform Architect will:

• Own, develop and maintain the technology strategies, standards, principles, roadmaps and architectures for systems which support use of our website, mobile apps and other customer facing digital services across Nuffield Health.
• Provide architectural support & guidance within the technology squads and with stakeholders to drive strategic alignment.
• Drive and stand up for the digital platform and ensure we're doing the right thing on a day to day basis, supporting the other platform architects, stakeholders and governance processes to ensure alignment with the technology / digital strategies and Enterprise Architecture principles.
• Work closely with the other platform architects to understand their strategic direction and ensure that roadmaps align with and influence the development of cohesive digital services in support of business goals.
• Support the Enterprise Architecture team in developing strategic digital approaches that drive the best possible customer and patient experience, and work with our development teams to deliver them.
• Create and contribute to high level solution designs and platform, solution, technical and service architecture documentation.

• Proven experience in designing, building and maintaining integrating scalable customer focused digital platforms, such as web, mobile, e-commerce.
• Experience of digital transformation and modernisation of services.
• 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 industry best practices for exploiting cloud platform(s) for delivery of cloud native solutions. (Preferably Azure).
• Knowledge of API-centric architectures and integration strategies.
• Ability to deal with conflicting demands whilst meeting business expectations that may have time to market drivers.
• Excellent communication across organisational, technical and political boundaries, making complex and technical information accessible for non-technical audiences.
• A strategic thinker, evaluating the wider picture and driving towards our strategic ambitions, able to understand the direction of travel, milestones and challenges along the way to deliver the best possible customer and patient experience.

This role is a hybrid role which will include a mixture of home-based working and the requirement to work at our support centre in Barbican (or other locations) for workshops and other face to face meetings. Flexibility will be required to travel to meetings as necessary.

Helping you feel good.

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.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.

Applications will be considered as they are received and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.