Solution 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.

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 and trust‑related initiatives, ensuring technical quality, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure delivered solutions remain aligned to the agreed architectural vision and intended business outcomes.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and pragmatic decision‑making across teams.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience designing and implementing solution architectures for enterprise‑scale corporate systems in a complex environment.
• Strong experience with SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, and integration patterns.
• Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence, and implement architecture strategy.
• Expertise in documenting, communicating, and governing solution architectures, roadmaps, and technology decisions across a broad 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.
• Good understanding of identity, security, data, and integration considerations for corporate and SaaS solutions.
• Experience working within, or closely alongside, enterprise architecture practices, standards, and governance processes.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of hybrid cloud and enterprise integration approaches.
• Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture tooling such as Abacus.
• Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated/data‑sensitive environments.
• AWS or enterprise architecture certification, or relevant SaaS platform certification.
• Knowledge of systems such as ServiceNow, Hibob, Jira, Confluence, Dynamics CRM, and Monday.com.

Salary From: £93,600

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

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, 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 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.