Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care

Bupa Insurance Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the technology strategy for their Secondary Care services in a hybrid work environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in enterprise architecture, stakeholder management, and cloud platforms. This role offers competitive benefits including health insurance, pension plans, and performance-based bonuses.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing with length of service

Health insurance as a benefit in kind

Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

Annual performance-based bonus

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Various online discounts

Qualifications

• Experienced Enterprise Architect with a track record of transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and design patterns.
• Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the technology strategy for Secondary Care services.
• Maintain architecture roadmaps for critical systems.
• Support integration of new services focused on cloud and APIs.

Skills

Enterprise architecture frameworks

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Agile methodologies

DevOps

Healthcare data regulations

Job description

Overview

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 a digital transformation journey to become the world's most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is to help people live longer, healthier lives and to make a better world. We value diversity, inclusion and personal growth, and we strive to create an environment where our employees can thrive.

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 guide and advise our Solution Architects, ensuring alignment and quality across lower-level design implementations.

In this role within BGIUK, you’ll contribute to the ongoing development of our Architecture Community of Practice—sharing insights and expertise to shape and mature architectural standards across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 health to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and offer family-friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday, increasing with 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 is 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 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. 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 time

Job Area: IT

Locations: Angel Court, London; Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House