Enterprise Solution Architect – Healthcare
Location: Epsom & Barbican, London | Hybrid Working
Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: Competitive, depending on experience.
Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award‑winning hospitals and clinics to community and wellbeing programmes, our purpose is to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation.
Technology plays a vital role in delivering that mission. Our healthcare platforms underpin safe, efficient, and high‑quality care, supporting clinicians, operational teams, patients, and partners across our nationwide services.
Responsibilities
- Develop a strong understanding of Nuffield Health’s business strategy, healthcare and clinical domains, and the needs of clinicians, patients, operational teams, and partners.
- Contribute to shaping and aligning the Healthcare Technology Strategy with organisational priorities, clinical safety, regulatory requirements, and long‑term goals.
- Define commercially viable, technology‑agnostic, end‑to‑end enterprise solutions that deliver clear business and clinical value (including TCO and ROI).
- Lead high‑level solution design for healthcare initiatives, including impact assessments, options analysis, cost estimation, and pragmatic trade‑offs.
- Support clinical and business stakeholders in discovery activities and the development of robust healthcare business cases.
- Provide architectural guidance to clinical, operational, and technology leaders, product owners, and delivery teams before and during delivery.
- Engage with healthcare technology suppliers to understand strategies, interoperability standards, and product roadmaps.
- Oversee delivery to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, scalable, secure, interoperable, and clinically safe.
- Act as a coach and trusted advisor to stakeholders and delivery teams, helping bridge clinical, operational, and technical perspectives.
- Support architecture governance and ensure adherence to agreed principles, standards, and strategic direction.
Qualifications
- Strong leadership skills with clear, confident communication across clinical, technical, and executive audiences.
- A pragmatic mindset, balancing clinical safety, regulatory compliance, and long‑term architecture with immediate operational needs.
- Demonstrable experience in architecture analysis and design, including defining healthcare architecture strategies and roadmaps.
- A proven track record designing healthcare or clinical information system architectures aligned to patient outcomes and business objectives.
- Experience working with third‑party healthcare technology providers and vendors.
- 3–5 years of deep technical domain experience in healthcare technologies, such as clinical systems, patient administration, EPR/EHR, imaging, interoperability, or healthcare data platforms.
Desired Experience
- Experience delivering technology solutions within acute, elective, or community healthcare environments.
- Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards (e.g. HL7, FHIR) and clinical safety frameworks.
- Experience working in regulated environments with an understanding of clinical safety, information governance, and data protection.
- Strong knowledge of agile delivery frameworks and full lifecycle healthcare system implementation.
Benefits
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. You can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
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