Lead Architect

Enterprise Architect (Azure Expertise) – OUTSIDE IR35 CONTRACT- London / Hybrid

Sector: Digital Health / Regulated Industries

A leading organisation is seeking a visionary Lead Architect to define and drive its enterprise-wide architecture strategy. This role is pivotal in shaping a unified, scalable, and modular technology platform that supports digital product innovation and international expansion — particularly across the EU. This is not just a delivery role. It’s about setting the architectural principles, structure, and systemic coherence across infrastructure, data, applications, and integrations — enabling high-quality experiences for patients and healthcare professionals. Why This Role Now?

• EU Expansion: Harmonise architecture across jurisdictions with varying compliance, data residency, and operational models.
• Platform Unification: Consolidate legacy systems into a modular, reusable platform architecture.
• Digital Acceleration: Enable rapid product development without compromising interoperability, governance, or safety.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a unifying technical voice across Product, Engineering, Data, and Commercial teams. What We’re Looking For

Essential Technical Skills:

• Strong Azure Cloud expertise (AWS also valued)
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM & ERP platforms
• Patient-facing applications & healthcare UX design
• Data governance & analytics with EU residency compliance
• API-first/MACH architectures (Microservices, Cloud-native, Headless)
• Multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud implementations
• Regulated environments (Healthcare/Pharma/Financial Services)
• MarTech tooling & headless CMS solutions

Core Characteristics:

• Vision & Clarity: Able to articulate a future-state architecture aligned with business strategy.
• Principles-led Design: Grounded in sound architectural principles, not just trends.
• System Thinker: Views architecture as a system-of-systems — from infrastructure to UX.
• Pragmatic Execution: Balances scalability with lean governance; avoids overengineering.
• Strong Collaborator: Influences across disciplines and senior stakeholders.
• Regulatory Awareness: Experience designing within regulated environments (e.g. healthcare, pharma, finance). Key Responsibilities
• Define and evolve target architecture for modular, therapy-agnostic digital platforms.
• Support decisions around build vs. buy, platform reuse, and third-party integrations.
• Bridge strategy and execution across delivery teams, product, and technology leadership.
• Champion modern tooling: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, modular design.
• Oversee architectural governance for new features, migrations, multi-market deployments, and compliance.

Experience We Value

• Designed scalable, API-first or MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architectures.
• Led architecture in multi-region or regulated domains (healthcare, pharma, finance).
• Deep experience with Azure (and ideally AWS) in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CRM (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics), MarTech, and composable CMS platforms.
• Delivered architectures with strong data governance, residency awareness, and analytics pipelines.
• Worked in matrixed organisations, aligning architecture across federated teams.
• Thrives in fast-paced, outcome-driven environments.

Apply now for immediate consideration