Job summary
Lead the design and assurance of end-to-end solution architectures across complex healthcare systems, ensuring alignment with business strategy and target architecture. Translate business needs into integrated, scalable solutions, including integrations with legacy and modern systems (e.g., SystmOne, Soliton). Act as a strategic business partner to clinical, operational, and IM&T stakeholders, shaping technology-enabled change. Provide architectural oversight across multiple programmes, promoting reuse, interoperability, and alignment to digital strategy. Support organisational readiness for mergers, acquisitions, and service integration through flexible, modular architectures. Evaluate and guide adoption of new technologies and innovations in partnership with the Innovation function. Lead and develop the Business Analysis team, embedding best practices in requirements definition and business partnering. Develop and maintain key architecture artefacts such as system maps, integration diagrams, and target state architectures. Provide expert advice to leadership on system strategy, investment decisions, and risk mitigation (including technical debt). Ensure solutions comply with security, information governance, and healthcare regulations. Provide strategic direction while maintaining a practical, hands-on approach, contributing directly as a project delivery resource to ensure successful outcomes as required.
Main duties of the job
The Business Analyst Lead is responsible for shaping end-to-end solutions that align business strategy with technology delivery, while leading and developing the Business Analysis capability. This role acts as a critical bridge between business and IT, translating complex needs into coherent, scalable, and value-driven solutions. It provides strategic leadership across programmes, ensures robust requirements and architecture governance, and drives measurable business value in a healthcare environment.
About us
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Details
- Date posted: 16 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: HEOF572
- Job locations: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE12 8EU, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Person specification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in a Solutions Architect capacity
Qualifications
Desirable
- TOGAF
WhatsApp job alerts
Get instant WhatsApp alerts for Medical Secretary roles in Newcastle upon Tyne
Create your Job Clerk account first. We'll collect your alert preferences during onboarding and help you turn on WhatsApp notifications for matching healthcare roles.
Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for Business Analyst Lead with Cora Health Group Limited in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £55,000 to £65,000 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Jun 2026.
Before you apply, compare the job description with the person specification and mirror the employer's essential criteria in your supporting information. Use the vacancy title, employer, location, salary, contract type, closing date and posted date (16 Jun 2026) to decide whether this role fits your current NHS job search. If the employer can close applications early, prepare the application before the stated deadline rather than waiting for the final day.
For more context, review related Job Clerk pages for the same profession, band or location where they exist, then use the application-support guides to tailor your statement and prepare for interview.