Lead Solution Architect
NHS England
Leeds / London / Any NHSE site, LS1 4APView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£113,227 to £130,576
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
Data & Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, with responsibility for national programmes worth £1.5 billion. This generation...
As a Lead Solution Architect reporting into the Deputy Director of Technical and Security Architecture, you will:-
- Have responsibility for 5 to 10 staff, made up of permanent, interim and suppliers, co-ordinating across multiple directorates and complex programmes.
- Hold accountability for the architecture across a portfolio of national products and programmes, delivered through a combination of internal and supplier teams.
- Drive and support your team in their decision making.
- Manage and influence executive stakeholders at a board level (CxO)
- Be responsible for the NHS England technical governance, architectural roadmaps and contribute to strategic planning.
- Have broad experience across technical disciplines including Data, Security, Applications and Platforms alongside specialisms.
- Develop and mentor staff in your team and more widely.
- Lead in supporting and developing the architecture function and community of practice as well as participating in departmental leadership.
- Active participation in architecture governance, including attendance at relevant Boards.
- Able to influence direction across NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, other arm's length bodies and the wider supplier community.
The role does not have significant direct financial responsibility but will have direct influence over setting technical direction for multi-million-pound spending decisions.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential: - Masters or equivalent qualification, specifically in a computing, scientific or mathematical subject OR equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of major cloud platforms including core architecture patterns, managed services, networking, identity and security controls, and cost optimisation principles, with the ability to apply this knowledge to multi-cloud and cloud-agnostic solution designs at enterprise scale
- Knowledge of major Apache spark data platform services and their associated architectures
Leadership
Essential
- Evidence of providing clear direction through communicating the strategic vision, adopting a corporate approach and inspiring the SA team to achieve its goals.
People Management and Development
Essential
- Line and activity management of technical staff including setting clear team objectives and priorities and monitoring achievement. Builds the team's capability to match changing delivery needs
Solution Architecture
Essential
- Demonstrable evidence regarding leadership in the development of architectures for complex national-scale systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
9 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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