Solution Architect

Genomics England; United States; A distancia; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

30 days holiday

Hybrid working model

Learning budgets & certifications

Pension & Life Assurance

Health & Wellbeing programs

Descripción de la vacante

Genomics England is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead AWS-based architecture across Use Research Data platforms. You will balance long-term technical direction with practical delivery, shaping roadmaps and guiding teams through secure, scalable solutions for genomic data use and processing.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, science, data and security colleagues to translate complex research needs into robust options, ensuring governance and security requirements are

Formación

• Experience designing solutions in AWS environments at scale.
• Ability to balance long-term technical direction with delivery.
• Experience contributing to architecture governance forums.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the architecture and design of solutions within the Use Research Data service, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient outcomes.
• Architect solutions across application, data, infrastructure, integration and security domains.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, scientists, data specialists and security teams to translate problems into effective options.
• Shape technical roadmaps balancing immediate delivery with long-term direction.
• Document architectures and decisions for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide architectural oversight from discovery to live service and contribute to governance forums.

Conocimientos

AWS architecture

Security by design

Data governance

TOGAF

Architecture governance

DevOps CI/CD

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation

Educación

Postgraduate qualification in genomics or bioinformatics

Herramientas

Abacus

Nextflow

Descripción del empleo

Our Use Research Data service (URD) helps researchers securely access and use genomic and associated health data, supporting research that can improve our understanding of disease and lead to better treatments and healthcare outcomes. Working within the Technology and Product Directorate, you'll help shape and deliver the platforms, data services and technical capabilities that underpin this work. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, science, data, security and delivery colleagues to turn complex research and user needs into coherent, scalable and secure solutions. This is a hands‑on architecture role where you'll balance longer‑term technical direction with practical delivery. You'll guide teams through architectural decisions, develop reusable patterns and ensure solutions align with Genomics England's wider technology strategy, architecture standards and security requirements. The complex nature of genomics research means we use a broad range of technologies, with AWS at the heart of our environment, supporting data ingestion and processing, workflow execution, high‑performance compute, high‑speed storage, advanced security, and genomics‑specific capabilities on AWS.,

• Lead the architecture and design of solutions within the Use Research Data service, ensuring they are secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with research and user needs.
• Design solutions across application, data, infrastructure, integration and security domains.
• Work with product managers, engineers, scientists, data specialists, security colleagues and delivery teams to understand problems, clarify requirements and develop effective solution options.
• Shape technical roadmaps and help teams balance immediate delivery priorities with longer‑term architectural direction.
• Architect solutions that support the secure storage, processing, analysis and use of large‑scale genomic and associated health data.
• Apply proven experience designing solutions across complex AWS environments, including compute, storage, networking, identity, access management, security and integration.
• Support research capabilities involving data ingestion, workflow execution, high‑performance compute, high‑speed storage and trusted access to sensitive data.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns that improve consistency, interoperability, maintainability and delivery across research products and services.
• Ensure solutions are secure by design and meet relevant data governance, privacy, regulatory and operational requirements.
• Document architectures, technical options, decisions, dependencies and transition states clearly for technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Provide architectural oversight throughout the lifecycle, from early discovery and technical evaluation through to implementation and live service.
• Contribute to architecture governance and assurance, including presenting designs and recommendations through appropriate technical forums.
• Identify technical risks, constraints and dependencies early, working collaboratively with teams to address them.
• Evaluate emerging AWS services and other technologies where they could improve the performance, scalability, security or cost‑effectiveness of our research platforms.
• Work with architects across Genomics England to create coherent end‑to‑end solutions and encourage appropriate reuse across services.
• Contribute to architecture best practice and improving the quality of architecture across Genomics England.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• AWS architecture certification or another relevant professional certification.
• Experience working with data‑intensive research, scientific, healthcare, genomics or other regulated platforms.
• Postgraduate qualification in genomics, bioinformatics or a related field; or extensive equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of AWS services supporting genomics or large‑scale research workloads, such as AWS HealthOmics.
• Experience with high‑performance compute, large‑scale or high‑speed storage, workflow orchestration or distributed data‑processing environments.
• Knowledge of research workflows and the lifecycle of data, from ingestion and processing through to secure access, analysis and reuse.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automation and observability.
• Understanding of metadata, data lineage, data products and interoperability standards.
• Knowledge of relevant genomics or research standards and technologies, such as OMOP, GA4GH, FHIR, Common Workflow Language, Nextflow or WDL.
• Experience contributing to architecture governance forums such as a Technical Design Authority.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools such as Abacus.
• Experience applying TOGAF or equivalent architecture practices.

If you're an experienced Solution Architect with proven AWS expertise, who enjoys working on complex technology and data challenges, this is a fantastic opportunity to help shape resilient platforms that enable secure, responsible and impactful genomic research at Genomics England. Candidates must be able to demonstrate substantial, hands‑on experience designing and delivering solutions across complex AWS environments.

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England, Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• Generous Leave: 30 days' holiday, plus bank holidays, plus additional leave for long service, and also the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family‑Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double‑matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. Genomics England's policies of non‑discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part‑time or employed under a permanent or a fixed‑term contract or any other relevant factor. Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.