Solution Architect – Healthcare Domain (.NET / Java / Azure)_ Software Solution Architect I at UST, Nottingham, £Contract Rate

Location: Nottingham (Hybrid)
Engagement: 6-Month Contract (Inside IR35) or Fixed-Term Employment

At UST, we're helping shape the future of digital healthcare by delivering innovative, scalable solutions across pharmacy, opticians, and broader healthcare services. As part of a major transformation programme, we're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale technology solutions that directly impact millions of healthcare customers.

This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative team of architects, business analysts, engineers, and project professionals, where you'll play a critical role in defining solution strategy, driving technical excellence, and enabling successful business transformation.

As a Solution Architect, you'll take ownership of end-to-end solution design and architectural governance across strategic healthcare initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading solution architecture activities across multiple healthcare and digital transformation programmes.
• Defining and governing end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with business, technology, security, and operational requirements.
• Producing high-quality architectural deliverables, highlighting key technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Acting as a trusted advisor between business stakeholders, delivery teams, enterprise architecture, and technology partners.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure solutions are delivered in line with approved architectural principles and standards.
• Developing technology roadmaps that support both immediate business priorities and long-term strategic goals.
• Supporting architecture governance processes and ensuring solution compliance with enterprise standards.
• Providing guidance on technology selection, solution options, and investment decisions to maximise business value.
• Reviewing and assuring architecture, high-level design, and detailed design artefacts produced by internal teams, suppliers, and third parties.
• Supporting project estimation and planning activities to ensure architectural scope and technical complexity are accurately represented.
• Contributing to reusable architecture patterns, standards, frameworks, and best practices across the organisation.
• Collaborating closely with fellow architects to drive consistency, innovation, and continuous improvement.

We're seeking an experienced architect with a strong blend of technical expertise, business awareness, and stakeholder management capability.

• Extensive experience in Solution Architecture within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong background designing solutions using Microsoft .NET, Java EE, or both.
• Experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure.
• Proven ability to produce solution architecture deliverables across both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience working within multi-vendor, outsourced, and distributed delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, application design, integration patterns, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience designing:
  • Cloud-hosted solutions
  • Web applications and digital platforms
  • APIs and microservices architectures
  • Enterprise integration solutions
• Strong understanding of information security, data governance, GDPR, and the protection of sensitive customer data.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience balancing strategic thinking with hands-on architectural delivery.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with enterprise integration technologies such as:
  • MuleSoft
  • Talend
  • Software AG
  • IBM MQ (WMQ)
  • Azure Integration Services
• Experience recommending and implementing Azure cloud capabilities to meet business, operational, and architectural objectives.
• Knowledge of ArchiMate 3 and enterprise modelling techniques.
• Experience within healthcare, pharmacy, retail healthcare, regulated, or highly governed environments.
• TOGAF, ISEB, or equivalent architecture certification.

At UST, we combine deep industry expertise with world-class engineering to solve complex business challenges. You'll have the opportunity to work on large-scale healthcare transformation programmes, shape technology strategy, and contribute to solutions that improve experiences for healthcare professionals and customers alike.

Our teams value collaboration, innovation, continuous learning, and ownership. If you're passionate about architecture, cloud technologies, and delivering meaningful healthcare solutions, we'd love to hear from you.

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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