Solution Architect; office locations

Overview

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Postgraduate qualification in genomics, bioinformatics or a related field; or extensive equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications in architecture.
• Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices.
• Extensive knowledge of bioinformatics, genomic data structures and integration standards for these.

Salary From: £93,600

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• Generous Leave: 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly:
  Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial:
  Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development:
  Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional…