Solutions Architect

A leading organisation in the Healthcare sector is seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect with a strong infrastructure background to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering modern technology solutions across a complex hybrid estate.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working at both the strategic and hands-on levels, combining architectural design with real delivery impact.

This is not a purely conceptual, governance-heavy position. Around half of the role involves hands‑on, delivery-focused activity, supporting projects, shaping solutions, and guiding engineering teams to ensure high quality outcomes.

The team is responsible for infrastructure, identity, cyber resilience and cloud strategy, and the organisation is advancing a cloud‑first approach while maintaining a significant on‑prem footprint. This role is central to progressing that journey.

You will join an established architecture and delivery function responsible for end‑to‑end project delivery, platform engineering, and M365 services. You will work across a broad and varied portfolio of initiatives, giving you exposure to identity, core infrastructure, cloud platform modernisation, and resilience‑focused programmes.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, infrastructure teams, information security, policy and governance, and delivery leads. The environment is collaborative, pragmatic and outcome‑focused, and the right cultural fit matters just as much as technical depth.

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Brings deep infrastructure knowledge but is forward‑thinking about cloud.
• Can operate across multiple projects with varied scope and complexity.
• Enjoys influencing strategy but still wants to be actively involved in delivery.
• Has a balanced, pragmatic approach and thrives in a supportive team culture.

• Lead the design of end‑to‑end infrastructure and cloud solutions across a hybrid Azure and on‑prem environment.
• Contribute to infrastructure, identity, cloud and cyber‑resilience strategy.
• Develop architectural roadmaps and ensure solutions align with best practice and organisational goals.
• Present solutions to the Technical Design Authority and provide expert technical guidance.

• Support the delivery of infrastructure projects by providing practical expertise across compute, storage, virtualisation, identity, and cloud services.
• Contribute to IaC development using Bicep and support CI/CD practices using Git Hub and Octopus Deploy.
• Engage directly with delivery teams, platform engineers, M365 specialists, and application teams to ensure the successful execution of designs.

• Drive adoption of Azure services, including PaaS and identity‑focused workloads, particularly Entra  Exchange Online.
• Support automation, optimisation and cloud‑first patterns.
• Guide teams on performance, resilience, cost efficiency and security within Azure.

• Provide inclusive leadership and support the development of a small team.
• Foster a collaborative, open environment where discussion, challenge and innovation are encouraged.
• Promote positive behaviours and contribute to a healthy, supportive team culture.

• Ensure designs meet security, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate closely with information security and governance teams, with awareness of controls without being responsible for building them.
• Support organisational sustainability and safeguarding responsibilities.

• Strong background in core infrastructure including compute, storage, SANs, VMware, HP hardware and Windows environments.
• Significant experience delivering complex infrastructure projects in hybrid cloud environments with regulatory oversight.
• Deep Azure knowledge at Solution Architect level, including PaaS and identity workloads.
• Hands‑on experience with IaC, primarily Bicep, with Power Shell and ARM templating.
• Experience with Git Hub, Octopus Deploy and CI/CD approaches.
• Familiarity with enterprise security standards and alignment to cloud‑first security tooling.
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