Enterprise Architect (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

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.

You will work across Genomics England, shaping the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps for business and technology capabilities across the organisation, including clinical and diagnostic services, research and discovery platforms, data and digital capabilities, and corporate functions. In this role, you will work closely with business leaders, service designers, user researchers, product managers, engineers, security, data, and third-party suppliers to shape strategic direction, align investment to target architectures, and ensure a coherent approach across enterprise and corporate platforms.

The role will form part of an enterprise architecture team, helping define enterprise-wide principles, policies, standards, target states, transition roadmaps, and reusable patterns, while ensuring change across Genomics England aligns with broader organisational strategy, governance, and architecture principles.

As an experienced Enterprise Architect, you bring expertise in enterprise architecture leadership, helping teams and stakeholders make effective strategic choices, understand dependencies and trade‑offs, and evolve capabilities in a way that is sustainable, coherent, and aligned to successful business outcomes.

• Work with the wider enterprise architecture team to define and maintain target enterprise architectures, principles, and roadmaps across clinical, research, data, digital, and corporate capabilities, ensuring alignment to organisational strategy and priorities.
• Provide enterprise architecture leadership across Genomics England, shaping a coherent technology and capability landscape across business functions.
• Develop enterprise-wide architecture views across business, data, applications, integrations, and technology platforms.
• Work with senior stakeholders to translate business strategy into target states, investment priorities, and phased transition plans.
• Establish and promote architecture standards, reference models, reusable patterns, and governance approaches that support consistency and informed decision‑making.
• Assess current‑state architecture, identify duplication, risk, complexity, and opportunities for rationalisation or improvement across enterprise and SaaS platforms.
• Guide major initiatives and programmes to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, strategic roadmaps, and intended business outcomes.
• Collaborate with security, data, engineering, delivery, and procurement teams to ensure architecture decisions reflect regulatory, operational, financial, and technical considerations.
• Work with vendors and third‑party providers to assess strategic fit, support product selection, and shape sustainable operating models.
• Communicate architectural direction, trade‑offs, and roadmaps clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams, building understanding and support for change.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, architectural rigour, pragmatic decision‑making, and horizon scanning across teams and domains.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect, or in a similar strategic architecture role, within a complex organisation.
• Strong experience developing enterprise architecture artefacts such as principles, policies, standards, target architectures, roadmaps, reference models, and capability maps.
• Experience shaping architecture strategy across business‑facing corporate systems, SaaS platforms, and enterprise services.
• Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence, and align strategic direction, investment choices, and architectural priorities.
• Ability to connect business strategy, operating model, information, application, and technology concerns into coherent enterprise architecture views.
• Experience establishing and applying architecture governance, standards, and decision‑making processes across multiple teams or domains.
• Good understanding of identity, security, data, integration, and service management considerations across enterprise platforms.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and alignment across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture tooling such as Abacus.
• Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of hybrid cloud, enterprise integration, and modern SaaS operating models.
• Experience supporting portfolio alignment, investment governance, or architecture review processes.
• Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated/data‑sensitive environments.
• Enterprise architecture certification (such as TOGAF), cloud certification, or relevant SaaS platform certification.

Salary From: £93,600

Closing Date: Monday 22nd June at 23:00 (UK time)

Benefits

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, plus additional leave for long service, and also 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), an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. Genomics England’s policies of non‑discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part‑time or employed under a permanent or a fixed‑term contract or any other relevant factor. Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.

Culture

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other.

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.