Solution Architect; office locations

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

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.

Job Description

Genomics England are hiring a Solution Architect!

This is for our Empowering Our People and Engaging to Build Trust tribes. You will support the solution design and architecture of corporate solutions and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms across our corporate business areas, covering areas such as:
People, Finance, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Quality, Ethics, Service Management and Communications.

This is a unique opportunity to shape strategic initiatives across business-facing services that enable our people, strengthen organisational trust, and improve the way Genomics England delivers internal capabilities.

In this role, you will work closely with third party suppliers and internal Genomics England squads, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver improvements to enterprise and corporate platforms.

The role will also form part of the enterprise architecture team, contributing to enterprise-wide standards, target architectures, and reusable patterns, while helping ensure that solutions across the two tribes align with broader organisational architecture principles and strategic direction.

As an experienced Solution Architect, you will provide solution architecture leadership, drawing on your expertise to help teams make effective technology choices and ensure delivered solutions are sustainable, supportable, and fit for purpose.

You will:

Lead the architecture, design and implementation of corporate and SaaS-based solutions, working closely with product, engineering, security, data, live service and business teams.

Provide architecture leadership across the Empowering Our People and Engaging to Build Trust tribes, ensuring solutions meet business, regulatory, security, and operational requirements.

Develop target architectures, solution patterns, and roadmaps for enterprise and corporate platforms, with a strong focus on SaaS adoption, integration, and service optimisation.

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

Work with vendors and third-party providers to assess products, shape solution options, and ensure successful implementation and ongoing evolution of services.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are deliverable within the constraints of skills, resources, budgets, and timelines.

Define integration approaches across SaaS, enterprise applications, identity, data, and workflow platforms to create coherent end-to-end solutions.

Contribute to enterprise architecture governance, standards, and reusable patterns, ensuring local delivery decisions align with wider organisational architecture.

Provide architectural oversight for key corporate…