# Senior Solution Architect > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-solution-architect/efbdea97-4975-423e-97d3-3d8505852cba - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-solution-architect/efbdea97-4975-423e-97d3-3d8505852cba.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Town:** Leeds - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Salary:** £95,404 - £109,930 pa including 20% RRP (exclusive of London weighting) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T09:50:48.238Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Nationally/NHS_England/Architecture_Standards/Architecture_Standards-v8186121 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8186121?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 ## Job Content ### Job overview Data and Analytics is at the heart of delivering the NHS’s 10 Year Health Plan, having responsibility for delivering National Programs worth £1.5 billion. This is a generational opportunity to use technology to change the way the NHS works. We will be turning national ambition into the data, digital and platform capabilities that will transform how patient care is delivered, planned, managed and improved.  Amongst those programs and capabilities are: - Single Patient Record- transforming the current disjointed digital landscape to produce patient and clinician facing services that operate seamlessly regardless of care context or location - AI factory (Jonny to confirm) – providing capabilities to create AI services across the NHS making best use of the latest technologies and models. - Event Based Architecture-providing a real-time data capability to enable better intelligence across all NHS services and join up care. We are building faster, safer services with better operational decisions to advanced analytics, research and responsible AI at scale. We are looking for talented Senior Solution Architects to help shape some of NHS England’s most exciting and strategically important technology work, translating ambition into practical architectures, reusable patterns and assured solutions that can operate safely at national scale. ### Main duties of the job Snr Solution Architects play a key role in shaping & delivering safe, scalable data and platform capabilities that enable AI-enabled products, advanced analytics, research, operational insight & intelligent automation across NHSE. Main duties - Lead the development of solution architectures for scalable data, platform and AI-enabled capabilities across NHSE, ensuring designs are modular, interoperable, reusable and aligned to enterprise architecture, data, security, information governance, clinical safety & assurance standards - Translate strategic objectives into practical architecture patterns, delivery guardrails, reusable components and implementation approaches that support operational insight, advanced analytics, research, intelligent automation and future platform extensibility - Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary product, engineering, data, clinical safety, information governance, research governance, supplier and enterprise architecture teams, ensuring that architecture decisions are clearly understood and effectively applied - Shape and assure designs for intelligent orchestration, governed data access, reusable APIs, data products, integration patterns, auditability, monitoring, access controls and appropriate human oversight mechanisms - Support the development and reuse of architecture principles, reference patterns, design standards and technical guardrails that enable consistent, safe and scalable delivery across multiple products and use cases. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The postholder will lead solution architecture for reusable platform and orchestration capabilities, ensuring designs are modular, interoperable, extensible and aligned to NHS England architecture, data, security, clinical safety, information governance and assurance standards. The role will provide technical leadership across product teams, suppliers and governance forums, translating strategic ambition into practical architecture patterns, delivery guardrails and reusable components. This includes supporting the evolution of intelligent orchestration capabilities, governed APIs, auditability, access controls, data, model and agent boundaries, and appropriate human oversight mechanisms across multiple operational, analytical and research contexts. The postholder will act as a key architectural link between strategic data and platform enablement, delivery teams and the wider vision for reusable, governed and intelligent NHS capabilities. They will work closely with product, engineering, clinical safety, information governance, enterprise architecture, research governance and supplier teams to assure designs, resolve dependencies and enable delivery of robust, trusted, scalable and reusable capabilities that create operational value. 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 none contractual and subject to review. You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Solution Architecture - Able to lead the solution architecture for an MCP-enabled intelligent orchestration layer, ensuring designs are modular, reusable, standards-aligned and capable of connecting AI-enabled products, data sources, agents, tools and operational workflows across the wider NHS architecture. - Assurance of Supplier Solutions - Acts as the technical lead for the evolving AI intelligence layer, assuring supplier and internal designs against agreed agentic architecture principles, including MCP/ACP interoperability, agent registry, action boundaries, access controls, monitoring and safety constraints. ### Knowledge **Desirable** - Technical Specialism - Has specialist knowledge of AI-enabled architectures, including agentic systems, MCP/ACP patterns, orchestration layers, reusable agent capabilities, governed APIs, auditability and human oversight controls, and is experienced in advising on their safe application. - Data Management - Able to establish robust big data management practices, covering governance, quality, lineage, interoperability, security and accessibility, so large-scale datasets are trusted, reusable and translated into actionable insight and measurable outcomes. ### Experience **Essential** - Enterprise Architecture - Experience of contributing to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business. Develops models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance. - Stakeholder Management and Communication - Evidence of liaising with stakeholders, suppliers and programme teams, communicating technical concepts and complex issues clearly and accurately, adapting communication style to suit the recipient ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree or equivalent higher education qualification, specifically in a computing, scientific or mathematical subject, or equivalent such as would be acquired through a taught Masters course. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 368.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10499042) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [occupational functional requirements form (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10499040) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.