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Senior Solution Architect

£65,000 - 65,000
UK Health Security Agency
Canada Square 10, Canary Wharf
£65,000 - 65,000
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1k-5k
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Services
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Senior
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Full-Time
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English
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No

Requirements

Must:
- Proven experience designing end-to-end solutions in AWS or Azure (certifications are desirable). - Strong understanding of common architectural design patterns (e.g., layered architecture, event-driven architecture, microservices, serverless, data mesh) and the ability to apply them to real-world solutions. - Strong understanding of data platform architecture, including pipelines, APIs, and integration patterns. - Hands-on experience using enterprise architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX). - Experience translating requirements into detailed designs and blueprints. - Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations, ideally with public sector, health, or regulated data. - Comfortable working with delivery teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into working designs. - Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues in simple terms.

Responsibilities

- As a Senior Solution Architect, I will take responsibility for designing and leading the delivery of strategic technology solutions across our hybrid cloud estate (AWS, Azure, and On-Premises environments). - I will work closely with delivery teams, data engineers, analysts, and other architects to define how systems should be built, integrated, and secured. - I will take end-to-end ownership of solution design for key health data platforms, collaborating with technical teams and senior stakeholders across the organization. - I will focus on practical design, supporting delivery across health data platforms, working on secure data pipelines, APIs, HL7 feeds, research datasets, or cloud-based services in Azure & AWS. - I will help modernize our architecture, strengthen integration, and ensure that everything we build aligns with best practice, government architecture standards, and our evolving data strategy.

Description


The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security, working internationally to strengthen global health security, provide trusted advice to government and the public, and reduce inequalities in how different communities experience and are impacted by infectious diseases, environmental hazards, and other health threats. Our remit is to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and external threats to health. Here at UKHSA, we pride ourselves on being an employer of choice, promoting equality of opportunity and actively encouraging applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. Our ethos is to foster an inclusive organization where everyone's differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We are committed to creating, nurturing, and sustaining this inclusive culture by removing barriers and ensuring equity and equality of opportunity for all. As part of the Data Design & Architecture (DD&A) team, we support data architecture and data solutions across the organization. Our small team, consisting of solution architects, data architects, and data modellers, collaborates closely with various departments involved in the development and maintenance of infrastructure and software. This role is ideal for individuals with technical or architectural experience in healthcare, public health, research, or university environments who are eager to shape how our systems work.
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