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About the Role

Genomics England is seeking a Solution Architect to support the design and architecture of corporate solutions and SaaS platforms across various business areas. This role is crucial for shaping strategic initiatives that empower people, build trust, and improve internal capabilities. You will collaborate with third-party suppliers and internal teams, contributing to enterprise-wide standards and ensuring solutions align with organizational architecture principles.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of corporate and SaaS-based solutions.
Provide architecture leadership across the Empowering Our People and Engaging to Build Trust tribes.
Develop target architectures, solution patterns, and roadmaps for enterprise and corporate platforms.
Communicate architecture strategy and roadmaps clearly to senior stakeholders.
Work with vendors and third-party providers to assess products and shape solution options.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are deliverable within constraints.
Define integration approaches across various platforms to create coherent end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to enterprise architecture governance, standards, and reusable patterns.
Provide architectural oversight for key corporate and trust-related initiatives.
Ensure delivered solutions remain aligned to the agreed architectural vision and intended business outcomes.
Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and pragmatic decision-making.

Requirements

Proven experience designing and implementing solution architectures for enterprise-scale corporate systems in a complex environment.
Strong experience with SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, and integration patterns.
Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence, and implement architecture strategy.
Expertise in documenting, communicating, and governing solution architectures, roadmaps, and technology decisions.
Excellent interpersonal skills and a temperament that builds trust across technical and non-technical teams.
Ability to balance strategic and tactical considerations in architecture decisions.
Good understanding of identity, security, data, and integration considerations for corporate and SaaS solutions.
Experience working within, or closely alongside, enterprise architecture practices, standards, and governance processes.

Skills

SaaS platforms
Enterprise applications
Integration patterns
Architecture strategy
Solution architectures
Roadmaps
Technology decisions
Identity
Security
Data
Hybrid cloud
Enterprise integration
TOGAF methodologies
ServiceNow
Hibob
Jira
Confluence
Dynamics CRM
Monday.com

Location

Canary Wharf
Cambridge
Leeds
London

Work Type

Blended working model
Hybrid working
Remote working

Experience Level

Experienced Solution Architect

Education Level

AWS or enterprise architecture certification, or relevant SaaS platform certification

Salary/Compensations

From: £93,600

Benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Additional leave for long service
Option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually
Blended working arrangements
Flexible working
Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits
Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%)
Life Assurance (3x salary)
Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
Give As You Earn scheme
Individual learning budgets
Support for training and certifications
Reimbursement for one annual professional subscription
Employee recognition programme
Referral scheme
Subsidised gym membership
Free Headspace account
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
Eye tests
Flu jabs

About the Company

Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare.
Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives.
By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.
Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.
We're on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime - from birth to old age.

Equal Opportunity

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence.
We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work.
Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes.
Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.