Company Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Job Description
We are seeking a dynamic Solution Architect to join our Newborns Team at Genomics England. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting scalable technology solutions while ensuring alignment with business needs.
You will make key technical decisions, contribute to documentation and proof-of-concept development, and collaborate with engineering teams, Delivery Managers, domain architects, and product owners to clarify requirements and develop solution options.
Key Skills & Experience:
Proven experience in architecting solutions within public cloud platforms (AWS).
Strong technical background with the ability to make strategic technical choices.
Skilled in designing solutions and making key architectural decisions.
Ability to frame design solutions and align them with business needs.
Comfortable working across both business and technology domains.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with strong soft skills to engage effectively with stakeholders.
Experience in developing cloud-based solution architectures across application, data, infrastructure, and security domains.
Understanding of microservices architecture patterns.
Knowledge of key considerations in architecting digital products.
Familiarity with architecture methodologies and governance frameworks.
Qualifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
TOGAF Certified
Additional Information
Salary from: £93,500
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to
