Overview
The Lead Architect will define and lead the enterprise-wide architecture vision for a healthcare client, enabling a unified, scalable, and modular tech platform that supports our digital product strategy and international expansion — particularly across the EU market. This role goes beyond solution delivery. It sets the principles, structure, and systemic coherence across all layers of our digital stack — infrastructure, data, applications, and integrations.
Why This Role Now?
* EU Expansion o Harmonise our architecture across markets with differing compliance, data residency, and operational models.
* Platform Unification o Converge multiple overlapping platforms and legacy systems into a modular architecture with reusable components.
* Digital Acceleration o Support the pace of digital product development without sacrificing control, interoperability, or patient safety.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration o Provide a unifying technical voice across Product, Data, Engineering, and Commercial teams.
What We’re Looking For Core Characteristics
* Vision & Clarity: Can articulate a future-state architecture that aligns with product and market strategy.
* Principles-led Design: Grounded in sound architecture principles — not just driven by tech trends or tooling.
* System Thinker: Understands architecture as a system-of-systems — from infrastructure and data to patient-facing UX.
* Pragmatic Execution: Designs scalable systems but applies just enough governance. Knows when not to over-engineer.
* Strong Collaborator: Confidently influences across disciplines — from Tech Leads and Product Managers to Regulatory and Commercial.
* Regulatory Aware: Has designed architectures within regulated environments (e.g. healthcare, pharma, financial services).
Key Responsibilities
* Assist Defining and continuously evolving a target architecture that supports: Modular, therapy-agnostic digital PSPs; Expansion into multiple EU jurisdictions; High-quality patient and HCP experiences
* Support decision-making around build vs. buy, platform reuse, and 3rd party integrations.
* Act as a bridge between strategy and execution — collaborating with delivery teams, the CTO, product, and domain leads.
* Drive adoption of architecture principles and modern tooling, including CI/CD, observability, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modular system design.
* Oversee architectural governance for: New digital product features; Tech migrations; Multi-market platform deployments; Regulatory risk mitigation
Experience We Value (Application over tools – real-world impact matters more than name-dropping frameworks.)
* Designed scalable, modular digital platforms with API-first or MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architectures.
* Led or influenced architecture across multi-region or highly regulated domains, such as pharma, health, or finance.
* Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures, ideally Azure (and AWS).
* Familiar with MarTech tooling, CRM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics CRM & ERP), and CMS solutions (headless or composable content platforms).
* Delivered architectures with strong data governance, residency awareness, and analytics pipelines.
* Collaborated in matrixed organisations, aligning architecture across federated product and engineering teams.
* Knows how to drive forward platform architecture in fast-paced, outcome-focused, commercial environments.
How We Will Assess Fit
* We will focus on principles, approach, and clarity of thinking — not just technical trivia. Our assessment will look for applied system thinking, architectural judgement, and cross-functional leadership.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology and Consulting
* Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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