Principal Solution Architect; office locations

Position: Principal 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 for a Principal Solution Architect for Research, where you will manage all the architects across the Research tribe and provide architectural leadership across both the Use Research Data and Generate Research Data services. Working alongside other senior architecture and engineering leaders, you will help shape the technical direction for Research capabilities, ensure solutions align with enterprise direction, organisational priorities, services strategies, and support the development of coherent, scalable, and secure platforms that enable research outcomes.

Your previous roles will include leading architecture across complex data, platform, or research environments and supporting teams delivering products and services used to generate, manage, and consume data. You will bring experience and expertise of setting direction across multiple teams or domains, and balancing strategic architecture leadership with pragmatic delivery support.

You will have broad knowledge of solution architecture, data-intensive platforms, enterprise architecture practices and cloud platforms - preferably AWS. The complex nature of genomics research means we use a wide range of AWS technologies supporting data ingestion, workflow execution, high-performance compute, high-speed storage, advanced security features, and genomics-specific services such as Health Omics.

As Principal Solution Architect, you will work with architects, principal engineers, product managers and other senior leaders to help shape architecture best practice for research services, support consistency in how architecture is applied across the tribe, and provide technical leadership that improves interoperability, reuse, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Key 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.

Working with other technical leaders to 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.

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