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About the Role

Genomics England is seeking a Principal Solution Architect for Research to manage architects within the Research tribe and provide architectural leadership for services related to using and generating research data. This role involves shaping the technical direction for research capabilities, ensuring solutions align with enterprise direction and organizational priorities, and supporting the development of scalable and secure platforms for research outcomes.

Responsibilities

Provide strong architectural leadership across the Research tribe, working across both the Use Research Data and Generate Research Data services to ensure coherent end-to-end design.
Shape the technical direction for research capabilities, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, strategic goals, and delivery priorities.
Partner with product, engineering, delivery, and science stakeholders to shape roadmaps and support effective architectural decision-making.
Provide architectural oversight and assurance for major initiatives across research platforms, data flows, and services, ensuring appropriate governance, quality, and technical coherence.
Drive consistency, reuse, and interoperability across services, platforms, and data domains within the Research tribe.
Support the evolution of research platforms across cloud environments, balancing immediate delivery needs with longer-term strategic direction.
Represent Research architecture within wider enterprise architecture discussions, ensuring local priorities, constraints, and opportunities are understood and aligned.
Develop, embed, and continuously improve architecture patterns, standards, and ways of working relevant to research and data-intensive services.
Create coherent end-to-end solutions spanning research, platform, and enterprise domains.
Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and strong cross-team collaboration across the Research tribe.
Manage architecture resources across the Research tribe.

Requirements

Significant experience in solution or domain architecture across complex enterprise environments, including cloud (preferably AWS) platforms.
Demonstrable experience providing architectural leadership across multiple teams, services, or initiatives, balancing strategic direction with pragmatic delivery support.
Strong understanding of data-intensive and research-oriented platforms, including the challenges of ingestion, processing, storage, access, and governance.
Experience shaping architecture across complex service boundaries and creating alignment between product, engineering, delivery, and domain stakeholders.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and the ability to represent a service or domain within wider enterprise architecture discussions.
Proven ability to provide architectural governance and oversight for significant programmes, platforms, or technology change initiatives.
Experience providing architectural governance across the full lifecycle from inception to live services.
Ability to develop, embed, and improve architecture best practice, standards, patterns, and ways of working.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering, product, delivery, scientific, and senior leadership audiences driving a single unified technical vision.
Experience shaping architectural choices across both immediate delivery needs and longer-term strategic direction.
Strong understanding of complex technology platforms, including infrastructure, networking, security, compute, storage, and integration concepts.
Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and to create alignment across architects, engineers, and delivery stakeholders.
Experience managing and mentoring an architectural team to delivery outcomes.
Experience managing, mentoring, or leading architects, including setting direction, supporting development, and driving high standards of practice.

Skills

Solution architecture
Data-intensive platforms
Enterprise architecture practices
Cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
AWS technologies (HealthOmics, data ingestion, workflow execution, high-performance compute, high-speed storage, advanced security features)
Architecture best practice
Interoperability
Reuse
Quality
Long-term maintainability
DevOps practices
CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure as code
Architecture governance forums (e.g., Technical Design Authority)
Healthcare
Genomics
Research
Highly regulated domains
Data lifecycle management
Platforms supporting scientific or analytical use cases
High-performance compute
High-speed storage
Workflow orchestration
Supplier management
Enterprise architecture tooling (e.g., Abacus)
TOGAF methodologies

Location

London
Canary Wharf
Cambridge
Leeds

Work Type

Blended working model
Hybrid working

Experience Level

Principal

Education Level

Degree, ideally in computer science or a STEM discipline
AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
TOGAF Certification or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

From: £103,400

Benefits

30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, plus 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.