Solution Architect (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)
Genomics England2 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of secure, scalable, resilient solutions for the Use Research Data service.
- Design across application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security domains for large-scale genomic and health data.
- Translate research, business, and user needs into technical designs, solution options, and delivery roadmaps.
- Guide architectural decisions, technical evaluations, implementation, live-service oversight, and architecture governance.
- Develop reusable architecture patterns and improve consistency, interoperability, maintainability, and delivery across services.
- Document architectures, risks, dependencies, decisions, and transition states for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Evaluate AWS services and other technologies to improve platform performance, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, science, data, security, delivery, and architecture stakeholders.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on experience designing and delivering AWS solution architectures in complex, data-intensive environments.
- Strong knowledge across cloud compute, storage, networking, identity, security, data processing, and integration services.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and resilient platforms that process, store, or provide controlled access to large datasets.
- Experience architecting across application, data, infrastructure, and security domains in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Experience translating complex needs into practical technical designs and balancing strategic direction with delivery constraints.
- Experience with secure-by-design principles, data protection, governance, access controls, integration patterns, APIs, and interoperability.
- Experience communicating architectures, options, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience providing architectural governance and assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Demonstrable experience using innovative technology such as AI.
- AWS architecture certification or another relevant professional certification is desirable.
- Experience with data-intensive research, scientific, healthcare, genomics, or other regulated platforms is desirable.
- Postgraduate qualification in genomics, bioinformatics, or a related field, or extensive equivalent experience, is desirable.
- Knowledge of AWS services for genomics or large-scale research workloads, including AWS HealthOmics, is desirable.
- Experience with high-performance computing, high-speed storage, workflow orchestration, distributed data processing, DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, automation, or observability is desirable.
- Knowledge of metadata, data lineage, data products, interoperability standards, OMOP, GA4GH, FHIR, Common Workflow Language, Nextflow, or WDL is desirable.
- Experience with architecture governance forums, enterprise architecture tools such as Abacus, or TOGAF is desirable.
Benefits
- Blended and flexible working, with most employees expected to attend an office at least twice each month; offices are in Canary Wharf, Cambridge, and Leeds.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, long-service leave, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave benefits.
- Defined contribution pension with Genomics England double-matching up to 10%, life assurance, electric vehicle salary sacrifice, and Give As You Earn scheme.
- Individual learning budgets, training and certification support, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription.
- Employee recognition and referral programmes, subsidised gym membership, Headspace, Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, and flu jabs.
- Successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Tech Stack
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Solutions Engineering