Are you ready to join a team shaping the future of digital healthcare across England? Do you want to apply your architectural skills to services that impact millions of patients, clinicians, and NHS staff every day?
NHS England is looking for experienced Solution Architects to help design modern, secure, and interoperable digital services.
If you’re passionate about designing high‑quality, user‑centred solutions—and want to grow your career within a supportive, nationally focused architecture community—this could be the ideal opportunity.
Digital transformation is central to the NHS’s long‑term ambitions. This is an exciting time to join NHS England and help design services that operate at national scale, supporting clinical delivery, improving patient experience, and strengthening the digital foundations of the health and care system.
Our Solution Architecture function provides architectural design and technical consultancy across national programmes. You will work within multidisciplinary teams shaping the architecture of major national services, platforms, and capabilities—from citizen‑facing applications to critical national infrastructure.
What’s in it for you
* Join a collaborative architecture team using digital technology and data to transform health and care
* Work on national‑scale services that directly support the public, clinicians, and NHS operations
* Access a wide range of learning, development, and training
* Benefit from hybrid, flexible working arrangements
We offer opportunities across several key architectural domains. You are not expected to have experience in all areas—you will be aligned to the domain that best fits your skills, strengths, and experience.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Domain Details
* Applications
o Help deliver user‑centred, interoperable digital services that work effectively for both patients and clinicians.
* Security (Cyber Architecture) subject to Security Check clearance
o Support the design of secure national systems and contribute to strengthening cyber maturity across NHS England.
* Infrastructure
o Help shape the foundational national technology services.
* Platforms
o Support the design and evolution of NHS England’s shared platforms and digital foundations.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and own specific architecture components and solution designs under the guidance of a Senior Architect
* Ensure designs align with NHS England architecture standards, frameworks, patterns, and governance processes
* Work within agile, multidisciplinary teams including service designers, engineers, delivery managers, user researchers, and clinical experts
* Produce clear, high‑quality architectural artefacts—for example diagrams, models, options analyses, and technical notes
* Act as a technical contact point for delivery teams, suppliers, and stakeholders
* Contribute to technical assessments, architecture reviews, and assurance processes
* Champion the adoption of reusable patterns, standards, and best‑practice approaches across programmes
Qualifications and Requirements
* Some roles may require the successful candidate to hold, or be willing to obtain, Security Check (SC) clearance.
* To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years.
* Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role – will still be considered.
Benefits
* The post of Solution Architect has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 15% per annum.
* Please be aware that RRP is non‑contractual and subject to review.
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 May 2026.
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