Nuffield Health
Solution Architect
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Solution Architect
Hybrid – Barbican / Epsom | Technology | 3 Month Contract | Full Time (37.5 hours)
Competitive salary, depending on experience
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 lead the transformation of our Physio platforms, designing solutions to transition from legacy systems to our new platform. 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
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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 working with third-party solution providers and vendors
- A track record of using architecture principles to improve both user experience and backend capability
- 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
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Why Nuffield Health?
Nuffield Health is a purpose-driven charity committed to building a healthier nation by reinvesting in people, communities, and care. You’ll work on meaningful transformation initiatives that directly improve how our organisation operates and delivers services.
You’ll collaborate with passionate experts in an environment that values quality, innovation, and impact, where technology plays a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare.
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