Solution Architect

Job Description:

Solution Architect
Grade – D17

Contract – Permanent

Location: Cromwell Hospital, London SW5 0TU
Hybrid working: 2 days per week on site
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: From £90,000 per annum, depending on experience
Benefits: Role-specific bonus of 10% MBS

We make health happen.

At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world''s most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world. As a leader in the healthcare industry, our aim is to leverage cutting-edge technology to innovate and enhance our services, ensuring exceptional experiences for our customers.

How you’ll help us make health happen

- Lead the architecture and integration / consolidation of IT systems across acquisitions and new build sites.
- Support with the assessment, due diligence and development of integration budgets for new acquisitions including the identification and mitigations of risks
- Translate business challenges into clear, strategic technology solutions, balancing cost, risk, and time to value
- Collaborate across architecture, engineering, data, security, and operations to deliver the technical vision
- Design and influence end-to-end solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and governance
- Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to support successful delivery
- Communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure solutions meet governance, compliance, and quality standards with minimal friction

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

- Proven 3 years plus  experience in Solution Architecture roles
- Ability to design end-to-end solutions for high-availability web, mobile, and cloud-based systems
- Strong understanding of architecture modelling techniques such as UML and C4
- Strong stakeholder management experience
- Experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, and secure systems
- Solid background in web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, REST, XML, and OData
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Node.js, Java, C#, or Python
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (particularly Azure Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Platform), including PaaS solutions and workload migration
- Expertise in modern architectural practices, including: Microservices,  API-led design , CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud-native design patterns
- Strong ability to collaborate with engineers and technical teams, confidently engaging in detailed technical discussions
- Experience designing data architectures that are scalable, secure, and optimised for performance
- Healthcare industry knowledge is preferred
- Experience integrating systems during acquisitions or the commissioning of new sites.
- You can demonstrate the ability to create Solution designs for high-availability systems and cloud native 3rd party solutions using notation like UML and C4.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health, from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.

• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing

• Fixed term benefits allowance

• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme

• Workplace pension

• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
IT
Locations:
Cromwell HSK