Job Title: Head of Architecture and Platform Engineering

Location: Healix Group, Healix House, Esher Green

Overview

The purpose of this role is to develop and maintain a cohesive technical architecture to support the company’s products and services. The role must be familiar with architectural best practices and remain abreast of the state-of-the-art. It will be the responsibility of this role to ensure our solutions are scalable, secure and robust and provide compelling business cases for new technologies that we should be embracing.

As we are expecting a high number of applications for this role, the advert may close before the advertised date.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Group CTO on the architectural road map
• Maintaining a cohesive and accurately documented technical architecture for the company’s products and services
• Keep abreast of architectural best practices
• Ensure our systems and solutions are scalable, robust, and secure
• Perform an analysis of the existing architecture and identify a target architecture as well as a roadmap to achieve it
• Provide compelling business cases for the adoption of new technologies and architectural patterns where appropriate

Requirements

This Person Must Have The Following Skills

• Complex, client facing on-premises and cloud-based architectures
• AWS/Azure
• TOGAF
• SOLID
• DRY
• Infrastructure as Code
• Macroservices/Microservices

Knowledge Beneficial

• Experience dealing with C-Suite
• GitHub
• SQL Server
• CI/CD
• Agile software development
• Terraform or similar
• Docker or similar
• DevOps
• Cloud AI services

Person Qualities

• An excellent communicator
• A diplomatic leader who can quickly get people on side
• Delivery and detail focused
• A self-motivated and personable individual able to work with minimal supervision and take responsibility for their functional area
• Able to be proactive but also to take direction
• Methodical and structured in analysing problems and producing solutions
• Able to influence decisions through reasoned argument
• Excellent in documentation and presentation skills
• Quick to build relationships and earn respect through sound judgement and a positive attitude
• Committed to getting the job done

Company and Culture

We offer UK employee healthcare benefits, and travel, medical and security assistance in every corner of the globe. Our purpose is to help people in difficult situations – whether that’s a cancer diagnosis, a need for medical assistance when they’re far from home, or being caught up in conflict or natural disaster. We talk to them, support them, and make sure they get the help they need. If necessary, we’ll pull them out and bring them home.

We’re co-ordinators and problem-solvers: experts at navigating the global health and security landscape. Our teams of doctors, nurses, travel and medical co-ordinators and security experts make sure that your people will be looked after, whatever happens, supported by technology designed to help individuals, not slot them into a predetermined solution.

We work with governments, broadcasters, NGOs, international corporations, major insurers and more. No two clients are the same: we adapt our services to their needs. We focus on ensuring our highly trained specialists have the space and time they need to be effective, letting them use their initiative to get the job done.

Our clients have thousands of employees and customers, at home and abroad, so they need a business big enough to handle any situation. But they chose Healix because they also need an organisation that’s personal enough to care. Our people are driven to do things in the best way, not the way they have always been done. We work hard, and our efforts are rewarded with development opportunities and a supportive team spirit.

We nurture a friendly and dynamic culture to attract diverse talent with world-class skills. As part of Healix, you can expect excellent benefits and an environment where people really do care.

Closing Date, Type and Salary

Closing Date: Friday 26 September 2025

Contract Type: Full-time

Salary: From £90,000 to £95,000 per year

Seniorities and Roles

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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