Senior Solution Architect

The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is a system leader for health security; taking action internationally to strengthen global health security, providing trusted advice to government and the public and reducing inequalities in the way different communities experience and are impacted by infectious disease, environmental hazards, and other threats to health.

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UKHSAs remit, as an agency with a global-to-local reach, is to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and other external threats to health.

As the nations expert national health security agency UKHSA will: Prevent: anticipate threats to health and help build the nations readiness, defences and health security Detect: use cutting edge environmental and biological surveillance to proactively detect and monitor infectious diseases and threats to health Analyse: use world-class science and data analytics to assess and continually monitor threats to health, identifying how best to control and mitigate the risks Respond: take rapid, collaborative and effective actions nationally and locally to mitigate threats to health when they materialise Lead: lead strong and sustainable global, national, regional and local partnerships designed to save lives, protect the nation from public health threats and reduce inequalities.

Job overview The UKHSA Data Design & Architecture (DD&A) team is responsible for supporting data architecture and data solutions across the organisation.

We are a small team of solution architects, data architects, and data modellers.

We also work closely with other parts of the organisation who also are involved in development and maintenance of infrastructure and software, including Programme Teams, Engineering & Enablement, Surveillance Systems, Data Services & Quality, Genomics, Enterprise Architecture and the Development and Operations team.

The DD&A team supervises and actively develops solutions and data architecture which meet both our own and wider strategies and design principles/blueprints.

We also work on solution migration, consolidation, transformation, improvement, stabilisation, and decommissioning.

We are seeking solution architects with AWS/Azure experience.

This role will be a senior solution architect with direct accountability for specific solutions.

Main duties of the job As a Senior Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and leading the delivery of strategic technology solution across our hybrid cloud estate (AWS, Azure, and On-Premises environments).

Youll work closely with delivery teams, data engineers, analysts, and other architects to define how systems should be built, integrated, and secured.

Youll take end-to-end ownership of solution design for key health data platforms, collaborating with technical teams and senior stakeholders across the organisation.

Youll focus on practical design, supporting delivery across health data platforms working on things like secure data pipelines, APIs, HL7 feeds, research datasets, or cloud-based services in Azure & AWS.

You will help modernise our architecture, strengthen integration, and ensure that everything we build aligns with best practice, government architecture standards, and our evolving data strategy.

Its ideal for someone with technical/architectural experience in healthcare, public health, research or University environments who wants to shape how systems work.

Working for our organisation We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders.

To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities.

We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Senior Responsibilities Taking a specific area of accountability on data ecosystem solution architecture, e.g., master data management, reference data management, enterprise data catalogue, metadata Taking a specific area of responsibility in organisation wide data policies, e.g., data privacy, data archival, data lifecycle management, data processing, data analysis Ensuring specific areas of accountability and responsibility are accurately reflected in Enterprise Data tooling, including LeanIX enterprise architecture diagrams, data solution and data platform reference models, architecture principles, blueprints and implementation patterns Building strong relationships with equal grade counterparts, e.g., enterprise architecture, information management and privacy, engineering and enablement, and DevOps Essential criteria: Proven experience designing end-to-end solutions in AWS or Azure (Certifications desirable).

Strong understanding of common architectural design patterns (e.g., layered architecture, even-driven architecture, microservices, serverless, data mesh) and the ability to apply them to real-world solutions.

Strong understanding of data platform architecture, including pipelines, APIs, and integration patterns.

Hand-on experience using enterprise architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX).

Experience translating requirements into detailed designs and blueprints.

Experience working in complex, matrixed organisations ideally with public sector, health, or regulated data.

Comfortable working with delivery teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into working designs.

Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues in simple terms.

Desirable criteria: Previous experience working with health or research data, Certified Data Management Professional (CDM).

Experience with integration tools, data pipelines, or ETL platforms.

Exposure to Solutions/ Data architecture methods.

Experience working alongside agile delivery teams.

Involvement in pre-sales or procurement discussions such as helping scope requirements, reviewing contracts, or supporting responses.d02fcfcb-6df4-40ee-95cf-3eb059ce3173