Solution Architect

Solution Architect Barbican & Epsom, London | Hybrid Working | Technology | Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months | Full Time Competitive salary available, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is building a healthier nation through its hospitals, fitness centres, and community programmes, all focused on improving the UK’s wellbeing. We’re committed to delivering outstanding customer and patient experiences, with digital services at the heart of this ambition. Driven by purpose and quality, we put people first, starting with you. Join us as a Solution Architect and help lead transformation in our Hospitals, designing solutions to support end to end hospital conversion improvements and automation. You’ll ensure architectures are aligned to enterprise standards and support our wider goals of improving care, experience, efficiency, and impact.

As our Solution Architect, you will:

• Lead technical discovery, analysing existing applications, platforms, and infrastructure across the estate
• Develop a clear understanding of current-state architecture, including dependencies, data flows, and integration points
• Define target and transitional architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and programme objectives
• Assess how systems and services need to be adapted, enhanced, or replaced to meet future capability needs
• Design and lead system integrations, including APIs, messaging patterns, and data exchange mechanisms
• Create high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, diagrams, and interface specifications
• Collaborate with delivery teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers to ensure solutions are practical and deliverable
• Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the lifecycle
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable
• Present designs to Technical Design Authority (TDA), incorporating feedback and securing approval
• Support the transition into delivery, providing ongoing architectural assurance and guidance

You’ll bring strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and transformation experience across enterprise platforms.

To succeed as a Solution Architect, you’ll bring:

• Proven experience designing and delivering Healthcare systems, ideally within complex enterprise environments
• Experience in Healthcare transformation and service modernisation
• Experience of digital transformation and modernisation of services
• Experience working with third-party solution providers and vendors
• Experience of commercial CRM application portfolios, especially Salesforce
• Experience of data mapping and standardisation
• 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 API-centric architectures and integration strategies
• Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver against tight timelines
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Confidence operating across organisational, technical, and stakeholder boundaries
• A strategic mindset, able to see the bigger picture and align architecture to long-term business objectives

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.

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award‑winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.