Enterprise Data Architect - Healthcare

Salary: £55,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for a hands-on Enterprise Architect with deep experience in healthcare data and platform architectures.
• We require strong architectural judgement, technical credibility, and the ability to operate effectively across complex organisational and data landscapes.
• We need proven experience as an Enterprise Architect within large, complex organisations.
• We need strong hands-on experience delivering architectures across data platforms, analytics, and integration landscapes.
• We need demonstrable experience operating architecture governance in live delivery environments.
• We need a strong understanding of NHS data landscapes, including acute trusts, ALBs, and system-level data flows.
• We need familiarity with NHS Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platform (FDP) concepts.
• We need awareness of national initiatives such as Single Patient Record and DHSC Health Data Research Service (HDRS).
• We need understanding of the current and evolving NHS organisational model, including DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, and providers.
• We need strong understanding of modern data architectures, including cloud data platforms, data lakes, lakehouse patterns, and analytics platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or equivalent enterprise data platforms is required.
• We need solid grasp of data lifecycle management, metadata, lineage, governance, and information security in healthcare contexts.
• We need experience designing architectures across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• We need excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• We need strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• We need comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving environments and influencing without authority.
• Desirable experience includes supporting population health management, research analytics, or clinical data platforms.
• Desirable experience includes familiarity with UK health data standards such as FHIR, SNOMED, ICD, OPCS, OMOP, LOINC, and DCAT.
• Desirable experience includes working with national NHS or DHSC programmes.
• Desirable experience includes exposure to data mesh or federated data ownership models in regulated environments.

Responsibilities:

• We define, maintain, and assure enterprise architecture artefacts including target operating models, reference architectures, roadmaps, and standards across healthcare data landscapes.
• We provide hands-on architectural direction to delivery teams, ensuring designs are implementable, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise principles.
• We act as a bridge between enterprise strategy and solution delivery, ensuring architectural intent is realised in practice.
• We establish and enforce architecture governance, including design assurance, architectural decision records (ADRs), and compliance with delivery standards.
• We define and maintain architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails across data, integration, cloud, and analytics platforms.
• We support investment decisions and technology selection through structured architectural assessment.
• We lead architecture across end-to-end data lifecycles, from ingestion and curation through analytics, research, and consumption.
• We provide architectural oversight of Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Federated Data Platforms (FDPs), ensuring compliance with NHS and research governance requirements.
• We design and govern architectures leveraging Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms.
• We ensure appropriate separation and linkage between operational, analytical, and research data use cases.
• We apply deep knowledge of NHS data flows, including acute, community, mental health, primary care, and ALB data sources.
• We support initiatives aligned to Single Patient Record, population health, and health data research, including HDRS-related use cases.
• We engage effectively across the evolving NHS organisational landscape, including DHSC, ALBs, ICBs, providers, and national programmes.
• We work closely with delivery teams, including data engineers, platform engineers, analysts, and product owners, to guide solution design and resolve complex architectural issues.
• We lead and contribute to architecture and design workshops with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders.
• We provide pragmatic trade-offs and recommendations balancing policy, risk, cost, and delivery timelines.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Snowflake
• ARM

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We are a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, delivering exciting work that is changing the world through our portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services. We offer an inclusive work environment built on mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning, supported by inclusion networks including the Womens Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network, and Parent Network. We provide tailored benefits to support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing, continuous learning and development opportunities, and flexible work options. We are an equal opportunities employer and a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer, committed to fairness, equity, diversity, and accessibility in our workplace and recruitment practices.

last updated 35 week of 2026