We are seeking a hands-on Enterprise Architect with deep experience in healthcare data and platform architectures to support large-scale transformation across the NHS ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise governance and practical delivery, requiring strong architectural judgement, technical credibility, and the ability to operate effectively across complex organisational and data landscapes.
The Enterprise Architect will provide architectural leadership across data platforms, analytics, and interoperability initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, national policy direction, and the evolving NHS operating model (DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, Care Providers).
The role requires a strong understanding of data lifecycle management across healthcare, including acute trusts, integrated care systems, and arm’s-length bodies, and familiarity with major national initiatives such as the Single Patient Record (SPR) and DHSC’s Health Data Research Service (HDRS).
What you'll be doing: Enterprise & Solution Architecture Leadership\tDefine, maintain, and assure enterprise architecture artefacts including target operating models, reference architectures, roadmaps, and standards across healthcare data landscapes.\tProvide hands-on architectural direction to delivery teams, ensuring designs are implementable, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise principles.\tAct as a bridge between enterprise strategy and solution delivery, ensuring architectural intent is realised in practice.Architecture Governance & Standards\tEstablish and enforce architecture governance, including design assurance, architectural decision records (ADRs), and compliance with delivery standards.\tDefine and maintain architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails across data, integration, cloud, and analytics platforms.\tSupport investment decisions and technology selection through structured architectural assessment.Data & Platform Architecture\tLead architecture across end-to-end data lifecycles, from ingestion and curation through analytics, research, and consumption.\tProvide architectural oversight of Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platforms (FDPs), ensuring compliance with NHS and research governance requirements.\tDesign and govern architectures leveraging Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms.\tEnsure appropriate separation and linkage between operational, analytical, and research data use cases.NHS & Healthcare Domain Engagement\tApply deep knowledge of NHS data flows, including acute, community, mental health, primary care, and ALB data sources.\tSupport initiatives aligned to Single Patient Record, population health, and health data research, including HDRS-related use cases.\tEngage effectively across the evolving NHS organisational landscape, including DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, providers, and national programmes.Delivery & Stakeholder Collaboration\tWork closely with delivery teams (data engineers, platform engineers, analysts, and product owners) to guide solution design and resolve complex architectural issues.\tLead and contribute to architecture and design workshops with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders.\tProvide pragmatic trade-offs and recommendations balancing policy, risk, cost, and delivery timelines. What experience you'll bring: Architecture & Delivery\tProven experience as an Enterprise Architect within large, complex organisations.\tStrong hands-on experience delivering architectures across data platforms, analytics, and integration landscapes.\tDemonstrable experience operating architecture governance in live delivery environments.Healthcare & NHS Domain\tStrong understanding of NHS data landscapes, including acute trusts, ALBs, and system-level data flows.\tFamiliarity with NHS Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platform (FDP) concepts.\tAwareness of national initiatives such as Single Patient Record and DHSC Health Data Research Service (HDRS).\tUnderstanding of the current and evolving NHS organisational model (DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, providers).Data & Technology\tStrong understanding of modern data architectures, including cloud data platforms, data lakes, lakehouse patterns, and analytics platforms.\tExperience with Snowflake and/or equivalent enterprise data platforms.\tSolid grasp of data lifecycle management, metadata, lineage, governance, and information security in healthcare contexts.\tExperience designing architectures across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.Professional & Consulting Skills\tExcellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\tStrong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.\tComfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments and influencing without authority.Desirable Experience\tExperience supporting population health management, research analytics, or clinical data platforms.\tFamiliarity with UK health data standards (e.g. FHIR, SNOMED, ICD, OPCS, OMOP, LOINC, DCAT).\tExperience working with national NHS or DHSC programmes.\tExposure to data mesh or federated data ownership models in regulated environments. Who we are:
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