Job Description:
Solution Architect (Oracle Health Insurance)
Salary: from £77,300 depending on experience
Flexible / Hybrid working options – min. 2 Days in office per week
Location: Brighton (Victory House)
Permanent
Shift pattern: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Role specific benefits: 10% Bonus
We make health happen
At Bupa, our purpose is simple: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. As we continue to transform our healthcare technology landscape, we're investing in modern, scalable solutions that improve experiences for our customers, members, providers and colleagues.
We're looking for a Solution Architect (Oracle Health Insurance) to play a leading role in shaping the future of our healthcare platforms. Working within our Technology function, you'll provide architectural leadership across Oracle Health Insurance (OHI) and its wider healthcare ecosystem, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, compliant and aligned to strategic business objectives.
This is an opportunity to influence major transformation programmes, work with senior stakeholders, and help define the target architecture for one of Bupa's most important technology domains. You'll combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, helping us maximise the value of our investment in Oracle Health Insurance while supporting excellent customer outcomes.
How you’ll help us make health happen:
· Lead the design, development and governance of solution architectures across Oracle Health Insurance and related healthcare technology initiatives.
· Define target-state architectures, technical standards, design principles and technology roadmaps.
· Produce and govern key architecture artefacts including solution designs, architecture decision records and integration strategies.
· Act as the technical authority for Oracle Health Insurance, providing expert guidance to business and technology stakeholders.
· Lead architecture assessments, solution option analysis and feasibility studies that support strategic investment decisions.
· Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Delivery Managers, Enterprise Architects and third-party partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
· Define and govern integrations across enterprise platforms including Oracle Health Insurance, Salesforce, Azure services, APIs and healthcare systems.
· Drive architecture governance, ensuring solutions meet security, regulatory, privacy and operational requirements.
· Support engineering teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, promoting architecture best practice, innovation and continuous improvement.
· Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
We're interested in hearing from experienced Solution Architects who can demonstrate:
· Extensive experience in solution architecture, systems design or large-scale technology delivery environments.
· Proven experience leading architecture across complex programmes and multiple delivery streams.
· Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, governance frameworks and technology strategy.
· Experience translating business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technology solutions.
· Expertise in cloud platforms and modern integration approaches, including REST APIs, event-driven architectures and healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
· Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
· Experience working within health insurance, healthcare or highly regulated industries would be advantageous.
· Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Desirable qualifications:
· TOGAF Certification
· Microsoft Azure Architect Certification
· Oracle Health Certifications
· Salesforce Architecture…