Job Description:
Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care
Hybrid - 1-2 days onsite per week
Location: London, Salford, or Staines.
Permanent
We make health happen
At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world's most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world. As a leader in the healthcare industry, our aim is to leverage cutting-edge technology to innovate and enhance our services, ensuring exceptional experiences for our customers. We believe that the key to success lies in our people. We are committed to creating an environment where our employees can thrive. At Bupa you will find a culture that values diversity, inclusion and personal growth. We strive to make Bupa a place to work, grow and make a meaningful impact to the lives of millions and drive change towards a healthier world
As an Enterprise Architect (EA), you'll bring a consultant mindset and the agility to thrive in a dynamic environment that blends legacy systems with cutting-edge digital technologies. You'll play a key role in guiding and advising our Solution Architects, ensuring alignment and quality across lower-level design implementations.
In this role within BGIUK, you'll also contribute to the ongoing development of our Architecture Community of Practice-sharing your insights, experience, and expertise to help shape and mature our architectural standards and practices across the organisation.
How you'll help us make health happen
Shape and deliver the technology strategy for Bupa's UK Secondary Care services in collaboration with IT leadership.
Maintain and evolve architecture roadmaps for critical systems, ensuring seamless integration across care platforms.
Support technical due diligence and integration of new services, with a focus on cloud and API-first solutions.
Guide and strengthen solution architecture capabilities within the Secondary Care IT team.
Ensure governance, compliance, and alignment with data, security, risk, and legal standards.
Contribute to high-quality, pattern-led solution design and resolve technical or regulatory challenges as needed.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
Experienced Enterprise Architect with a strong track record of leading transformation initiatives and engaging CxO-level stakeholders.
Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and design patterns.
Strategic thinker with the ability to operate end-to-end-from high-level vision to hands-on implementation.
Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive change across complex organisations.
Broad knowledge of modern IT software, cloud platforms, and critical infrastructure within distributed systems.
Proven ability to evangelise and promote the adoption of new technologies and architectural approaches.
Familiarity with healthcare data regulations and interoperability standards such as HL7, FHIR, and OpenEHR.
Background in product-centric, agile environments with experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native architectures.
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.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
ITLocations:
Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House
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.
