BioFAIR is building the future of UK life science data infrastructure and we’re looking for a Lead Architect to shape it. Applications are invited for a Lead Architect to join the BioFAIR Hub, hosted at the Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK. BioFAIR is supporting the UK’s life-sciences federated digital research infrastructure to become an integrated, national BioCommons that places the data, tools and services needed to answer life-science questions directly at researchers’ fingertips. Funded by a £34m UKRI investment over five years, BioFAIR will deliver a step change in ‘Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable’ (FAIR) research data management, providing end-to-end FAIR data and analysis capabilities alongside support and training for UK researchers. To achieve this mission, BioFAIR is undertaking an ambitious programme to defragment the UK’s existing data and service landscape. Guided by a “reuse, don’t rebuild” philosophy, this work requires a cohesive architecture capable of onboarding mature services while also providing a framework for developing new, state-of-the-art capabilities. The role: This senior role blends systems architecture and solutions architecture, guiding the design of a national, federated research ecosystem. You’ll create a clear technical vision, lead multi‑institution architectural decisions, and ensure interoperable, national-scale services across the UK’s life‑science community. The ideal candidate: The successful candidate will thrive in distributed teams and have a demonstrated ability to create architectural documentation, models, and integration patterns. You will have the ability to communicate technical ideas with clarity and have deep experience across cloud/HPC, workflows, metadata, and FAIR data. You will also excel at assembling best‑of‑breed components into coherent solutions This is primarily a hybrid role as BioFAIR partners are distributed across the UK. As this is a key leadership role in the BioFAIR Hub, the post holder would be expected to spend some time at the Earlham Institute working with other members of the BioFAIR Hub team, and some time visiting partners around the UK. The exact working patterns are flexible and we welcome applications from the right candidate irrespective of location in the UK.