Architect 2 (Enterprise Architect)

Responsibilities: - Develop high-quality integration solution designs and phasing. - Deliver clear solution architectures by simplifying complex system landscapes and providing authoritative guidance that supports integration decisions. - Translate ambiguity into actionable plans, shaping incomplete or evolving requirements into coherent technical approaches for acquisition onboarding. - Ensure high-quality, evidence-based decision making, presenting options, risks, and trade-offs that stand up to scrutiny from engineering, clinical, security and operational stakeholders. - Build strong cross-functional relationships, influence without authority, and maintain alignment across product, engineering, clinical and operational stakeholders. - Champion safety, data protection, and resilience, ensuring all integration decisions uphold clinical standards, PHI/PII protection requirements and continuity of care. - Development of new or existing applications and solutions in line with application designs, development standards, methodologies and strategic architecture frameworks. - Working as a lead alongside technical SMEs within product teams and projects of varying scope and size. - Can spot problems before development or serve up solutions to combat issues as they arise throughout the lifespan of a project. - Evaluate existing products and solutions to propose practical improvements, taking ownership and working with colleagues and business owners to implement changes. - Drive improvements to development practices and technical documentation. - Take ownership of maintaining and expanding development standards within your technical domain. - Investigate and propose the establishment of new technologies and methodologies that can improve development practices and products. - Takes ownership for resolving domain-specific related problems, which directly or indirectly impact operational services or development activities. - Manage implementation activities, change control and release planning. - Take ownership of improvements for internal documentation of products and technical solutions. - Become the point of contact for technical and domain-specific support for other teams within your technical domain. - Establish and maintain credibility and working relationships with other teams, being an ambassador within the business community, and supporting a customer service culture. - Defines, documents and maintains relevant designs (including integration/specification documents) and intellectual property on a defined area estate. - Create integration and other specification documents. - Consider the options to solve business challenges through many lenses: Engineering, Business, Security, Data and Operations. - Recommend solutions based on time to value, overall costs, risks and strategic fit. - Build strong, collaborative relationships with our partner organisations, helping to align our technical efforts with external needs. - Clearly and crisply communicate and contribute to architectural decisions, plans, and standards for the products we create and support. - Engage with design governance early and often so that solution designs meet peer review and meet control obligations with the minimum of fuss. - Align with defined architecture patterns, standards and target architectures. - Ensure solutions are taken through appropriate internal governance processes, such as Technical Design Authorities and other forums. - Support the procurement of new technologies and solutions aligned to business/technology requirements, including vendor assessments/selection, RFIs and RFPs. - Responsible for understanding and maintaining data models and inter-system relationships, dependencies, and integrations. - Creating compliant and robust solution architectures aligned with business requirements/goals/strategy, technology strategy, and regulatory/legal requirements. Requirements: - 2-3 years of relevant experience as a Solution Architect is mandatory. - Understanding of Network, Infrastructure and Cloud. - Google Cloud OR Azure OR AWS - Any1 - Good to have Java Spring Boot OR Microsoft tech stack (Java tech stack is preferred). - Experience in distributed systems. - REST APIs, Microservices, Kafka, or similar technologies are mandatory. - Product and Agile operating methods, and experience working in product teams. Company Summary Bupa was established on 3 April 1947 with a clear purpose: to prevent, relieve, and treat illness of all kinds. This founding commitment, rooted in care and choice, remains central to our mission today. Originally known as the British United Provident Association, Bupa was formed through the coming together of several large and small provident associations and hospital contributory schemes. United by a shared vision of better healthcare, they created Bupa as a company limited by guarantee. With no shareholders, we reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of future .