Enterprise Architect - Secondary Care

Bupa Insurance Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead technology strategy for Secondary Care services. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in enterprise architecture, with excellent consultative skills and stakeholder management abilities. This role offers a hybrid working model and a rewarding environment focused on innovation and employee well-being.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Annual performance-based bonus

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the technology strategy for Bupa's UK Secondary Care services.
• Maintain and evolve architecture roadmaps for critical systems.
• Support technical due diligence and integration of new services.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture frameworks

Consultative skills

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Agile environments

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

As an Enterprise Architect (EA), you will bring a consultant mindset and the agility to thrive in a dynamic environment that blends legacy systems with cutting-edge digital technologies. You will guide and advise our Solution Architects, ensuring alignment and quality across lower-level design implementations. In this role within BGIUK, you will contribute to the ongoing development of our Architecture Community of Practice and help shape 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. 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