Overview

Are you ready to join a team of experts transforming healthcare technology across England? Do you want to make a meaningful impact on the health of the nation and improve outcomes for patients nationwide?

We’re looking for Solution Architects with experience in cloud-based systems, big data and analytics, next-generation networks, APIs, platforms, cyber security, and digital strategy development. Our work directly benefits patients and NHS staff at national scale.

This is an exciting time to join NHS England as a Solution Architect. With the NHS 10-Year Plan, digital transformation is at the heart of how we’ll reshape services.

The Solution Architecture function delivers a range of services to internal and external stakeholders, including architecture design, technical consultancy and ownership of large-scale NHS programmes. As a Solution Architect, you’ll typically support a Senior Architect on national systems or domains such as the NHS App.

What’s In It For You

• Be part of a dynamic team using data and digital technology to transform health and care.
• Build experience in a role where your work has a direct and positive impact.
• Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth.

We have opportunities across several key areas:

Applications

Work on the next generation of NHS England applications, including the NHS App, NHS.uk, Urgent and Emergency Care, and General Practice. Help deliver solutions that benefit both end users and the public.

Security

Influence stakeholders on the value of Security Architecture in a complex, regulated environment. Ensure data is handled securely and digital services operate with integrity and efficiency.

Infrastructure

Contribute to our sustainable hybrid cloud strategy, support next-gen network innovations, and help drive digital collaboration through the Microsoft arrangement.

Platforms

Develop the next generation of NHS England’s application services, APIs, event-driven systems, and registries. These national platforms share data, improve healthcare, and save lives.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of specific architecture components, ensuring alignment with standards and enterprise frameworks
• Collaborating within agile teams alongside service designers, user researchers, engineers, and clinicians
• Acting as a technical contact point for stakeholders and suppliers.

The NHS England Board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Richard McEwan Job title: Chief Solution Architect Email address: richardmcewan@nhs.net Telephone number: 07798571984