Solution Architect, Secondary Care

Job Description:

Solution Architect, Secondary Care

Manchester, Leeds, Staines, London

Permanent: hybrid, up to 3 days WFH

Salary from: £73.5k + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements
• Establish policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components
• Manage trade-offs and balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements
• Communicate proposed decisions to stakeholders using technical and non technical language
• Provide organisational leadership and guidelines to promote the development of specialist knowledge in the organisation
• Develop and drive adoption of and adherence to organisational policies, standards, guidelines and methods for system design
• Champion the importance and value of system design principles and the selection of appropriate systems design life cycle models
• Lead system design activities for strategic, large and complex systems development programmes
• Develop effective implementation strategies consistent with specified requirements, architectures and constraints of performance and feasibility
• Develop system design requiring the introduction of new technologies or new uses for existing technologies

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience in solution architecture, systems design or complex technology delivery in a healthcare environment
• Proven leadership of large or complex solution architectures, often spanning multiple projects or programmes
• Defining and governing end to end solution architectures for strategically significant initiatives
• Providing authoritative solution architecture guidance to delivery teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading feasibility assessments, architectural option analysis and business case input, influencing design and investment decisions
• Demonstrable equivalent professional experience gained through senior solution architecture roles

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. 

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.  

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected] 

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place