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Solution Architect – Healthcare Domain (.NET/Java/Azure) at UST, Nottingham/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

6 Months or more

Contract Description

Role description

Solution Architect – Healthcare Domain (.NET / Java) with Azure

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.

 
The Role:

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.
What You'll Bring:

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.
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