Solution Architect
Barbican, London | Hybrid Working | Technology | Full-Time Contract: 8 Months | Full Time
Competitive salary available, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award‑winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes, we do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing.
Our ambition is to deliver the best possible customer and patient experience, and our digital services are critical to achieving that goal. Everything we do starts with passion, purpose, and a commitment to quality. It starts with you.
Join Nuffield Health as a Solution Architect and play a pivotal role in shaping the digital platforms that support millions of customers and members.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for the design and delivery of solution and technical architectures across key digital initiatives, with a primary focus on:
1. Digital Gym
2. AEM Website Re‑platforming
You will ensure that all designs align with our architectural principles, technology standards, and long‑term digital strategy.
As our Solution Architect, you will:
3. Own and develop technology roadmaps and architectures supporting our website, mobile apps, and wider customer‑facing digital services
4. Provide architectural guidance and support to technology squads and business stakeholders, ensuring strategic alignment
5. Champion the digital platform, supporting governance processes and collaborating with architects and stakeholders to ensure consistency and quality
6. Work closely with other architects to align strategic direction and drive cohesive, joined‑up digital services
7. Support the Architecture function in shaping strategic digital approaches that deliver exceptional customer and patient experiences
8. Create and contribute to high‑level solution designs and architecture artefacts, including platform, solution, technical, and service documentation
9. Partner with delivery and development teams to ensure architecture is pragmatic, deliverable, and drives real business value
You’ll bring strong technical leadership, strategic thinking, and a passion for improving digital customer experiences.
To succeed as a Solution Architect, you’ll bring:
10. Proven experience designing, building, and integrating scalable, customer‑focused digital platforms (web, mobile, e‑commerce)
11. Hands‑on experience delivering digital transformation and service modernisation
12. Experience working with third‑party solution providers and vendors
13. A strong background in application development or delivery within the fitness or leisure sector
14. Experience working with commercial digital application portfolios, particularly Adobe (preferable AEM as a Cloud Service)
15. A track record of using architecture principles to improve both frontend user experience and backend capability
16. Understanding of cloud-based architectures and modern deployment approaches, including Azure-based PaaS and serverless services, and when to use each appropriately
17. Solid knowledge of API‑centric architectures and integration strategies
18. Ability to balance competing priorities and time‑to‑market pressures
19. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences
20. A strategic mindset, able to see the bigger picture, anticipate challenges, and guide delivery towards long‑term business objectives
21. Knowledge of headless architectures, including headless and hybrid CMS implementations, preferably using GraphQL (ideally within AEM Headless)
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Apply today… It starts with you.