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Are you ready to join a team shaping the future of digital healthcare across England? Do you want to apply your architectural skills to services that impact millions of patients, clinicians, and NHS staff every day?

NHS England is looking for experienced Solution Architects to help design modern, secure, and interoperable digital services.

If you’re passionate about designing high‑quality, user‑centred solutions—and want to grow your career within a supportive, nationally focused architecture community—this could be the ideal opportunity.

Digital transformation is central to the NHS’s long‑term ambitions. This is an exciting time to join NHS England and help design services that operate at national scale, supporting clinical delivery, improving patient experience, and strengthening the digital foundations of the health and care system.

Our Solution Architecture function provides architectural design and technical consultancy across national programmes.  You will work within multidisciplinary teams shaping the architecture of major national services, platforms, and capabilities—from citizen‑facing applications to critical national infrastructure.

What’s in it for you

• Join a collaborative architecture team using digital technology and data to transform health and care
• Work on national‑scale services that directly support the public, clinicians, and NHS operations
• Access a wide range of learning, development, and training
• Benefit from hybrid, flexible working arrangements

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Main Duties of the Role

We offer opportunities across several core architecture domains. You’ll be aligned to the domain that best matches your strengths — not expected to have experience in all areas.

Applications
•    Design next‑generation NHS digital services
•    Work across services including NHS App, NHS.uk, UEC digital tools, and GP digital services
•    Support user‑centred, interoperable solutions for patients and clinicians

Security (Cyber Architecture)
•    Design secure national systems
•    Strengthen cyber maturity, resilience, and compliance
•    Improve system visibility across all the NHS

Infrastructure
•    Shape national foundational services
•    Hybrid cloud strategy and next‑generation networking
•    Microsoft 365 national collaboration platforms
•    Improve performance, interoperability, and digital capability

Platforms
•    Support shared platforms and digital foundations
•    APIs, integration services, event‑driven architectures
•    National registries and data services
•    Enable interoperability and national data sharing

As part of the architecture team, you will:
•    Develop and own architecture components
•    Align designs with NHS standards and governance
•    Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams
•    Produce high‑quality diagrams, models, and technical artefacts
•    Act as a technical contact for delivery teams and suppliers
•    Contribute to assessments, reviews, and assurance
•    Champion reusable patterns and best practice

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.