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About the Role

Genomics England is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape the organization's enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps across business and technology capabilities, including clinical services, research platforms, and data/digital functions. This role involves close collaboration with various leaders and teams to align investment with target architectures and ensure a coherent approach across platforms.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain target enterprise architectures, principles, and roadmaps across clinical, research, data, digital, and corporate capabilities, ensuring alignment to organizational strategy and priorities.
Provide enterprise architecture leadership, shaping a coherent technology and capability landscape across business functions.
Develop enterprise-wide architecture views across business, data, applications, integrations, and technology platforms.
Translate business strategy into target states, investment priorities, and phased transition plans with senior stakeholders.
Establish and promote architecture standards, reference models, reusable patterns, and governance approaches.
Assess current-state architecture to identify duplication, risk, complexity, and opportunities for improvement.
Guide major initiatives and programmes to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, strategic roadmaps, and intended business outcomes.
Collaborate with security, data, engineering, delivery, and procurement teams on architecture decisions.
Assess strategic fit of vendors and third-party providers, support product selection, and shape operating models.
Communicate architectural direction, trade-offs, and roadmaps clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams.
Foster a culture of collaboration, architectural rigour, pragmatic decision-making, and horizon scanning.

Requirements

Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar strategic architecture role within a complex organisation.
Strong experience developing enterprise architecture artefacts such as principles, policies, standards, target architectures, roadmaps, reference models, and capability maps.
Experience shaping architecture strategy across business-facing corporate systems, SaaS platforms, and enterprise services.
Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence, and align strategic direction, investment choices, and architectural priorities.
Ability to connect business strategy, operating model, information, application, and technology concerns into coherent enterprise architecture views.
Experience establishing and applying architecture governance, standards, and decision-making processes across multiple teams or domains.
Good understanding of identity, security, data, integration, and service management considerations across enterprise platforms.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Knowledge of enterprise architecture tooling such as Abacus.
Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices.
Knowledge of hybrid cloud, enterprise integration, and modern SaaS operating models.
Experience supporting portfolio alignment, investment governance, or architecture review processes.
Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated/data-sensitive environments.
Enterprise architecture certification (such as TOGAF), cloud certification, or relevant SaaS platform certification.
Successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Applicants must disclose any previous offences at point of application.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture
Architecture Strategy
Business Strategy Alignment
Stakeholder Engagement
Architecture Governance
TOGAF
Abacus
Hybrid Cloud
Enterprise Integration
SaaS Operating Models
Portfolio Alignment
Investment Governance
Architecture Review
Healthcare IT
Data-Sensitive Environments

Location

Canary Wharf
Cambridge
Leeds
London

Work Type

Blended working
Hybrid working
Remote working (up to 30 days abroad annually)
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Enterprise architecture certification (such as TOGAF)
Cloud certification
Relevant SaaS platform certification

Salary/Compensations

From: £93,600

Benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Additional leave for long service
Up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required)
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 (approval required)
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.