About the Role
Lead the transformation of Nuffield Health's Physio platforms, designing solutions to transition from legacy systems to a new platform. Ensure architectures align with enterprise standards and support broader goals of improving care, experience, efficiency, and impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery, analyzing existing applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
- 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.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and delivering Healthcare systems, ideally within complex enterprise environments.
- Experience in Healthcare 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.
Skills
- API-centric architectures
- Integration strategies
- Technical leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Transformation experience
- Architecture principles
- Communication skills
Location
- Barbican
- Epsom
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Depending on experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary, depending on experience
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.
- Nuffield Health is a purpose-driven charity committed to building a healthier nation by reinvesting in people, communities, and care.
- You’ll work on meaningful transformation initiatives that directly improve how our organisation operates and delivers services.
- You’ll collaborate with passionate experts in an environment that values quality, innovation, and impact, where technology plays a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare.
