Solution Architect

Job Description:

Solution Architect – Care Services

Location: Leeds (LS5 3BF) or Salford (M50 3SP)

Permanent

Salary range:  £64,900 - £68,000 (Negotiable depending on experience)

Role specific benefits: 10% Bonus

Full time: 37.5 Hours per week

Grade: C16

We make health happen 

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

At Bupa, technology plays a vital role in helping our Care Services grow and succeed. We build secure, scalable, and modern platforms that support both innovation and day‑to‑day operations across our diverse businesses. As we continue our move to cloud‑based services, we’re looking for Solution Architects who can balance change with stability—owning solutions end to end, unlocking the value of data, and designing technology that delivers great customer experiences while minimising technical debt. Working closely with business and technology leaders, you’ll help shape the future of care through smart, sustainable technology choices.

How you’ll help us make health happen 

• Lead and drive technology change and innovation across Bupa Care Services

• Translate business challenges into clear, strategic technology solutions, balancing cost, risk, and time to value

• Collaborate across architecture, engineering, data, security, and operations to deliver the technical vision

• Design and influence end-to-end solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and governance

• Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to support successful delivery

• Communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Ensure solutions meet governance, compliance, and quality standards with minimal friction

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Proven experience in Solution Architecture roles

• Ability to design end-to-end solutions for high-availability web, mobile, and cloud-based systems

• Strong understanding of architecture modelling techniques such as UML and C4

• Experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, and secure systems

• Solid background in web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, REST, XML, and OData

• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Node.js, Java, C#, or Python

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (particularly Azure Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Platform), including PaaS solutions and workload migration

• Expertise in modern architectural practices, including:
  Microservices
  API-led design
  CI/CD pipelines
  Infrastructure as Code
  Cloud-native design patterns

• Strong ability to collaborate with engineers and technical teams, confidently engaging in detailed technical discussions

• Experience designing data architectures that are scalable, secure, and optimised for performance

• Care and telecare industry knowledge is advantageous, though not essential

Benefits 

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. 

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more: 

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Target bonus of 10% based on individual and company performance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa? 

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. 

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.  

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.   

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge