Solution Architect; office locations

Position: Solution Architect (we have office locations  and )
Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

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.

Job Description

We’re seeking an accomplished Solution Architect to shape the design and evolution of healthcare solutions across Genomics England.

This senior role reports to the Director of Architecture within the Technology and Product Directorate, placing you at the heart of defining the future of genomic healthcare solutions, aligned with our technology strategy and architecture vision.

In this critical role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, confidently guiding initiatives and influencing the design and successful delivery of enterprise-scale healthcare solutions. You’ll work closely with squads, products, and services to ensure best practice is applied across lifecycle management, metadata, integration, and analytics, while contributing to industry standards such as GA4GH and FHIR, helping ensure Genomics England remains at the very forefront of genomic healthcare and research.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the architecture, design and implementation of genomic healthcare solutions.

Serve as a subject matter expert for genomic healthcare architecture, guiding both tactical and strategic decisions.

Communicate architecture strategy and roadmaps clearly to senior stakeholders, demonstrating how these support service, product, and organisational goals.

Collaborate with technology partners, vendors and NHS stakeholders to inform roadmaps and influence end-to-end solutions.

Contribute to national and international standards relevant to healthcare, genomics and research, including GA4GH or FHIR.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams-including bioinformaticians, data scientists, clinicians, and product managers to ensure solutions meet business, security, and regulatory requirements; and are deliverable within the constraints of skills, resources, and budget.

Architect solutions that integrate cloud platforms (such as AWS Health Omics, HPC compute nodes, and sequence stores) with complex on-premise estates, supporting petabyte-scale storage and high-performance compute for genomics analysis.

Develop reusable architecture patterns to streamline delivery and enable rapid innovation in genomics and healthcare services.

Provide architectural oversight for major healthcare and genomics programmes, ensuring technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and inclusive innovation across teams.

Essential

Skills and Experience:

 

Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale architectures in a complex healthcare, genomics or life sciences environment.

In-depth knowledge of genomics/bioinformatics including expertise with GA4GH, FHIR or other relevant industry standards.

Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to influence and implement long-term architectural strategy.

Expertise in documenting, communicating, and implementing roadmaps and solutions across a wide landscape.

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.

Knowledge of cloud and hybrid data architectures, data platforms, or data warehouses.

Extensive knowledge of AWS cloud architecture and technologies that support genomics/healthcare such as Health Lake and Health Omics.

Desirable

Skills and Experience:

 

Postgraduate qualification in genomics, bioinformatics or a related field; or extensive equivalent experience.

Relevant…