Job Description
Genomics England is hiring a Solution Architect to support the solution design and architecture of corporate solutions and SaaS platforms across our corporate business areas, including People, Finance, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Quality, Ethics, Service Management, and Communications.
The role will collaborate with third‑party suppliers and internal squads, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver improvements to enterprise and corporate platforms. It is part of the enterprise architecture team and will contribute to enterprise‑wide standards, target architectures, and reusable patterns.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design and implementation of corporate and SaaS‑based solutions, working closely with product, engineering, security, data, live service and business teams.
- Provide architecture leadership across the Empowering Our People and Engaging to Build Trust tribes, ensuring solutions meet business, regulatory, security, and operational requirements.
- Develop target architectures, solution patterns and roadmaps for enterprise and corporate platforms, with a strong focus on SaaS adoption, integration and service optimisation.
- Communicate architecture strategy and roadmaps clearly to senior stakeholders, demonstrating how they support service, product and organisational goals.
- Work with vendors and third‑party providers to assess products, shape solution options and ensure successful implementation and ongoing evolution of services.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure solutions are deliverable within the constraints of skills, resources, budgets and timelines.
- Define integration approaches across SaaS, enterprise applications, identity, data and workflow platforms to create coherent end‑to‑end solutions.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture governance, standards and reusable patterns, ensuring local delivery decisions align with wider organisational architecture.
- Provide architectural oversight for key corporate and trust‑related initiatives, ensuring technical quality, sustainability and continuous improvement.
- Ensure delivered solutions remain aligned to the agreed architectural vision and intended business outcomes.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence and pragmatic decision‑making across teams.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven experience designing and implementing solution architectures for enterprise‑scale corporate systems in a complex environment.
- Strong experience with SaaS platforms, enterprise applications and integration patterns.
- Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence and implement architecture strategy.
- Expertise in documenting, communicating and governing solution architectures, roadmaps and technology decisions across a broad landscape.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a temperament that builds trust across technical and non‑technical teams.
- Ability to balance strategic and tactical considerations in architecture decisions.
- Good understanding of identity, security, data and integration considerations for corporate and SaaS solutions.
- Experience working within, or closely alongside, enterprise architecture practices, standards and governance processes.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud and enterprise integration approaches.
- Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture tooling such as Abacus.
- Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated/data‑sensitive environments.
- AWS or enterprise architecture certification or relevant SaaS platform certification.
- Knowledge of systems such as ServiceNow, Hibob, Jira, Confluence, Dynamics CRM and Monday.com.
Additional Information
- Salary From: £93,600
- Closing Date: Monday 22nd June at 23:00 (UK time)
Benefits include:
- Generous leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approved).
- Family‑friendly: blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
- Pension & financial: defined contribution pension (double‑match up to 10%, can contribute more), life assurance (3× salary), electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, give‑as‑you‑earn scheme.
- Learning & development: individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approved).
- Recognition & rewards: employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
- Health & wellbeing: subsidised gym membership, free Headspace account, 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 disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non‑discrimination, equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or recent parenthood, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, employment status (full or part‑time, permanent or fixed‑term) 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.
Background Checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Applicants must disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
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