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Are you looking to use your expertise to help transform digital health and care services across England? Do you want your work to have a direct and positive impact on the health and wellbeing of millions?
NHS England is seeking Senior Solution Architects to shape the next generation of national digital services. Whether your strengths lie in applications, platforms, cloud, data, security, or infrastructure, there is an opportunity here to contribute at exceptional scale.
Digital transformation is a core priority for the NHS, this is a unique moment to influence technology that supports clinicians, empowers patients, and improves the operation of health and care services nationwide.
Our Architecture function provides architectural leadership, technical assurance, and strategic direction across major national programmes. You will lead architecture for a domain or national system, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, interoperable, and aligned with NHS England's strategic vision and standards. The role is aligned with Government Digital Service (GDS) principles and expectations for modern, user-centred public service design.
What's in it for you
Full details of responsibilities, skills, and criteria are available in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The post of Senior Solution Architect has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 20% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review.
Some roles may require the successful candidate to hold, or be eligible to hold,Security Check (SC)clearance.
To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years.
Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role will still be considered.
For further advice please check https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels#security-check-sc.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.