Solution Architect
Nuffield Health
Epsom, United Kingdom
11 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
EnglishJob location
Epsom, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Data Streaming
Backend
Workday
Job description
- Lead technical discovery, analysing existing applications, platforms, and infrastructure across the estate
- Develop a clear understanding of current-state architecture, including dependencies, data flows, and integration points
- Define target and transitional architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and programme objectives
- Assess how systems and services need to be adapted, enhanced, or replaced to meet future capability needs
- Design and lead system integrations, including APIs, messaging patterns, and data exchange mechanisms
- Create high-quality architecture artefacts, including solution designs, diagrams, and interface specifications
- Collaborate with delivery teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers to ensure solutions are practical and deliverable
- Identify and manage technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the lifecycle
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable
- Present designs to Technical Design Authority (TDA), incorporating feedback and securing approval
- Support the transition into delivery, providing ongoing architectural assurance and guidance
You'll bring strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and transformation experience across enterprise platforms.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and delivering HR and Finance systems, ideally within complex enterprise environments
- Strong experience in Workday implementations
- Experience in HR and Finance transformation and service modernisation
- Experience working with third-party solution providers and vendors
- A track record of using architecture principles to improve both user experience and backend capability
- Strong knowledge of API-centric architectures and integration strategies
- Ability to balance competing priorities and deliver against tight timelines
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Confidence operating across organisational, technical, and stakeholder boundaries
- A strategic mindset, able to see the bigger picture and align architecture to long-term business objectives
Benefits & conditions
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. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
About the company
Nuffield Health is building a healthier nation through its hospitals, fitness centres, and community programmes, all focused on improving the UK's wellbeing.
We're committed to delivering outstanding customer and patient experiences, with digital services at the heart of this ambition. Driven by purpose and quality, we put people first, starting with you.