Job Description:
Lead Power Platform Architect
London (EC2R 7HJ) or Manchester (M50 3SP) | Hybrid
Full time (35 hours per week)
Up to £95,000 per annum (Neg. depending on location and experience)
+ excellent benefits, including bonus
We make health happen
Working within our Group function, you'll play a key role in supporting our customer‑facing colleagues to deliver outstanding service and patient care across the UK and globally. This is an opportunity to work in a purpose‑driven organisation, helping shape the strategic direction of Bupa and improving the experience of our customers every day.
As our Lead Power Platform Architect, you'll work confidently at both a strategic and hands‑on level, leading complex delivery work and guiding teams to build high‑quality, scalable solutions. You'll partner with Domain Architects to maximise value, drive innovation and help shape new business and technical capabilities across Bupa. You'll also strengthen our Power Platform delivery model and play a key role in evolving our architecture governance, developing clear standards and principles that support long‑term strategic alignment.
How you'll help us make health happen
Establish policies, principles, patterns and practices for the definition of Power platform solution architectures
Manage trade-offs and balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements
Manage the relationship and communicate proposed decisions to senior stakeholders
Coordinate and manage the target solution architecture across multiple initiatives
Maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
Mentor and provide architectural direction to the Power Platform development team
Lead on the successful completion of required governance
Continually develop and evolve Power Platform solution patterns to accelerate future delivery
Partner with Data, Security, Risk, Privacy and Legal teams to ensure ways of working are continually improved and outcomes achieved
Maintain a catalogue of solution designs and contribute to the Enterprise Architecture target working with domain architect
What you'll bring
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL‑600) is highly preferred.
Deep subject‑matter expertise in Power Platform architecture, implementation, governance and support.
Proven experience delivering IT strategies that drive meaningful business change.
Confident engaging with senior leaders, shaping proposals, and leading engineering teams through detailed solution design.
Strong background in delivering well‑architected, scalable and secure solutions.
Solid understanding of Security and Risk practices, with the ability to balance functional and non‑functional requirements.
Knowledge of Agile delivery, Product Management, and continuous process improvement methods.
Ability to mentor a small team of technical specialists.
Deep technical capability areas across Power Platform, SharePoint Online, Power BI/Fabric, Entra ID
Power Platform (Architecture, Design & Automation)
Skilled in Dataverse‑first solution design, including data modelling and performance optimisation
Strong understanding of canvas vs model‑driven app patterns, component libraries, and multi‑app architectures
Experienced in cloud flow automation, including error handling, retries, idempotency, concurrency controls, and monitoring
Designs robust integrations using standard and custom connectors
Power Platform Governance
Knowledge of tenant‑level guardrails, policies, and global settings
Defines and manages environment strategies across dev/test/prod
Experienced with environment‑level controls, including DLP, access management, managed environments, configuration and ALM/pipelines
SharePoint Online (Architecture & Integration)
Strong understanding of information architecture: site structures, navigation, metadata/content types, retention, scalable library/list design.
Experience designing security and permission models, including sensitivity labels and external sharing governance.
Understanding of integration patterns when using SharePoint with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, including performance considerations.
Power BI & Fabric (Modelling, Capacity & Operations)
Strong skills in data modelling and designing reliable semantic models.
Understanding of when to use Direct Lake, Import, or DirectQuery for performance and scale.
Ability to design solutions that use Fabric capacity efficiently, avoiding overload and managing concurrency.
Experience with workspace governance, RLS, endorsed content, and deployment pipelines.
Knowledge of connectivity and performance tuning (e.g., gateways, incremental refresh).
Familiar with monitoring Fabric capacity and resolving refresh failures or performance issues.
Entra ID (Identity, Access & Security)
Experience with app registrations, enterprise apps, service principals, app roles, delegated vs application permissions, Key Vault secrets, and least‑privilege design.
Understanding of authentication patterns such as OAuth and SSO.
Awareness of Conditional Access implications for service accounts, MFA, and device compliance.
Knowledge of operational identity practices: privileged access, break‑glass accounts, access reviews, auditing and logging.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva, our global wellbeing programme, supports every aspect of health - mental, physical, financial, social and environmental.
When you join Bupa, you'll have access to:
25 days' holiday (increasing with length of service), with the option to buy or sell
Bupa health insurance (benefit in kind)
Enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Annual performance‑based bonus
Onsite gyms or local gym discounts
A range of family‑friendly policies and flexible working options
Additional benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We're a global healthcare company. With no shareholders, our focus is always on our customers. We exist to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives - and make a better world.
Everything we do is underpinned by our values: brave, caring and responsible.
We want everyone at Bupa to feel they belong. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, identities and experiences.
As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview/assessment for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. We will always make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
If you require information about this role in an alternative format, please email careers@bupa.com.
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Locations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.
We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you.
As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.
Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.
Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.