Solution Architect (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Solution Architect We’re seeking an accomplished Solution Architect to shape how Genomics England designs healthcare solutions. This senior role reports to the Director of Architecture within the Technology and Product Directorate and puts you at the heart of defining the future of genomic healthcare solutions, fully aligned with our technology strategy and architecture vision. In this critical role, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, guiding projects and influencing the design and confident delivery of enterprise-scale healthcare solutions. You will support squads, products, and services to adopt best practices across solution design, data lifecycle management, data governance, metadata management, interoperability, integration, and analytics, while contributing to industry standards such as GA4GH or FHIR and helping to ensure Genomics England remains at the forefront of genomic healthcare and research. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the architecture, design and implementation of genomic healthcare solutions, ensuring data flows, integration points and platform choices support safe, scalable and effective service delivery. - Serve as a subject matter expert for genomic healthcare architecture, guiding both tactical and strategic decisions. - Communicate architecture strategy and roadmaps clearly to senior stakeholders, demonstrating how these support service, product, and organisational goals. - Collaborate with technology partners, vendors and NHS stakeholders to inform roadmaps and influence end-to-end solutions. - Contribute to national and international standards relevant to healthcare, genomics and research, including GA4GH or FHIR. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including bioinformaticians, data architect and data scientists, clinicians, data engineers and product managers—to ensure solutions meet business, data, security and regulatory requirements; and are deliverable within the constraints of skills, resources and budget. - Architect solutions that integrate cloud platforms, data services and analytics capabilities—such as AWS HealthOmics, HPC compute nodes and sequence stores—with complex on-premise estates, supporting petabyte-scale storage, high-performance compute and trusted access to genomic and healthcare data. - Develop reusable architecture patterns for solution design, data integration, metadata management and analytics to streamline delivery and enable rapid innovation in genomics and healthcare services. - Ensure solution designs make appropriate use of data products, interoperability standards, lineage, governance and reusable platform capabilities. - Provide architectural oversight for major healthcare and genomics programmes, ensuring technical excellence and continuous improvement. - Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and inclusive innovation across teams. Essential Skills and Experience:  - Proven experience designing and implementing cloud enterprise-scale architectures in a complex healthcare, genomics or life sciences environment. - In-depth knowledge of genomics, bioinformatics and healthcare data standards, including expertise with GA4GH, FHIR or other relevant industry standards. - Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to influence and implement long-term architectural strategy. - Expertise in documenting, communicating, and implementing roadmaps and solutions across a wide landscape, including data flows, integrations, platforms and dependencies. - 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. - Knowledge of cloud and hybrid data architectures, data platforms, data products, metadata management, interoperability patterns, and data warehouses. - Extensive knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and technologies that support genomics/healthcare such as HealthLake and HealthOmics. Desirable Skills and Experience:  - Postgraduate qualification in genomics, bioinformatics or a related field; or extensive equivalent experience. - Relevant certifications in architecture. - Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices. - Extensive knowledge of bioinformatics, genomic data structures and integration standards for these. If you're an experienced Solution Architect who thrives on shaping architecture strategy and delivering enterprise scale healthcare solutions, this is your opportunity to make a genuine impact at Genomics England. - BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience  - Relevant architecture or data certifications are desirable; TOGAF certification is highly value