Solution Architect

Job Description:

Staines (TW18 3DZ) / Salford Quays M50 3SP

Hybrid working

Permanent

Up to £85,000 annual depending on experience

10% management bonus + other fantastic benefits

Full time 37.5 hours per week

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As Solution Architect for the Clinics business, you’ll be controlling the relevant knowledge and intellectual property of our core platforms and understanding their data flows, capabilities, characteristics, potential and limitations. You will create compliant and robust solution architectures aligned with business requirements / goals / strategy, technology strategy, regulatory / legal requirements, and Bupa policy.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

As Solutions Architect at Bupa, you will:

• Control relevant knowledge and intellectual property of our core Platforms and understanding their data flows, capabilities, characteristics, potential and limitations.

• Understand and maintain data models and inter-system relationships, dependencies, and integrations.

• Create compliant and robust solution architectures aligned with business and legal requirements, as well as policy.

• Gather, analyse and manage business and solution requirements and translate them into functional and technical system designs across delivery projects.

• Deliver Architectural Designs, Prototyping, Business and Logical Views, System Activation/Deactivation/Replacement

• Provide IT technology leadership through BG&UK IT principles and controls.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Extensive experience of working as a solution architect, with some experience as a business or solutions analyst, developer, tester or similar project environment.

• Strong experience of working across a broad range of technologies used in a clinics business environment including typically deployed applications (e.g. GP, Health Assessments, Musculoskeletal, Employee Assistance, Occupational Health), infrastructure (e.g. networks and clinical devices) and relevant standards, such as HL7, FHIR and DICOM.

• ISEB certification or equivalent would be desirable.

• Understanding and experience of Requirements Management.

• Ability to manage your own time and allocations and work autonomously.

• Resilience in an unpredictable and demanding environment where work levels can rapidly change.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience of working with different internal stakeholder groups, as well as and external suppliers.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you would like more information on the role, require an alternative format, or would like to discuss other opportunities suited to your skills and experience, please contact [email protected]

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Staines - Willow House