Solution Architect

Job Description:

Solution Architect
Staines (TW18 3DZ) / Salford Quays (M50 3SP)

Hybrid working

Permanent

Up to £85,000 annual depending on experience

10% management bonus + other fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours per week

At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world''s most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world. As a leader in the healthcare industry, our aim is to leverage cutting-edge technology to innovate and enhance our services, ensuring exceptional experiences for our customers.

We believe that the key to success lies in our people. We are committed to creating an environment where our employees can thrive. At Bupa you''ll find a culture that values diversity, inclusion and personal growth. We strive to make Bupa a place to work, grow and make a meaningful impact to the lives of millions and drive change towards a healthier world.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

As Solutions Architect at Bupa, you will:

• 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 balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation. Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.

• ​Coordinate and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives. Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

• Sets strategies, policies, standards and practices to ensure compliance between business strategies, technology strategies, and enterprise transformation activities.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Extensive experience of working as a solution architect, with some experience as a business or solutions analyst, developer, tester or similar project environment.

• Strong experience of working across a broad range of technologies used in a clinics and hospital environment including typically deployed applications (e.g. GP, Hospital PAS, PACS), infrastructure (e.g. networks and clinical devices) and relevant standards, such as HL7, FHIR and DICOM.

• Familiarity of developing solution designs in technology frameworks including Java, Spring Boot, GCP / Azure, React JS and React Native.

• Experience of the acquisition of new businesses and the integration of the business to defined target architectures.

• ISEB certification or equivalent would be desirable.

• Understanding and experience of Requirements Management.

• Ability to manage your own time and allocations and work autonomously.

• Resilience in an unpredictable and demanding environment where work levels can rapidly change.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience of working with different internal stakeholder groups, as well as and external suppliers.

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

• Annual performance-based bonus

• 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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Staines - Willow House