Lead Solution Architect, Cancer Research
£72-77k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Redman Place, Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£72-77k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Redman Place, Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- If you are an experienced Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge in one of the above architecture domains who wants to leverage technology to accelerate change in a purpose-driven environment, we’d love for you to join our mission
- Experienced Architect with extensive experience in at least one of the following architecture domains: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service
- Has implemented new technologies within an integrated architecture in large, complex organisations
- Solid understanding of modern software and platform architecture approaches (e.g., microservices and cloud etc)
- Experience delivering architecture through Agile Product teams
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g, (TOGAF, Zachman etc), industry-wide best practices, and emerging technologies
- Modelling and documenting experience with the ability to create models and visualisations to enable others to understand the architecture
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
What the job involves
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
- As our Lead Solution Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technological future of Cancer Research UK by collaborating closely with our product portfolios, providing technical leadership, and defining end-to-end solutions that enable our lifesaving work
- Based on your experience and background, you will be the subject matter expert within a specific specialism of architecture (such as business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, service etc)
- This is your chance to make a real difference while advancing your career in a supportive environment
- Developing multi-product architecture artifacts, collaborating with Product Teams to build self-sufficiency in design and architecture
- Partnering with Heads of Product Portfolios and Product Managers to support roadmap development and provide early triage
- Providing architecture support, coaching, and solution assurance across Technology’s product portfolios
- Addressing key design decisions, balancing risks, benefits, and outcomes for complex technical problems
- Collaborating with Lead Engineers and other technology teams to ensure the documented current state is maintained for change assessment and operational support
- Communicating and coordinating architecture development and technical change across portfolios and products (including those delivered by our partners)
- Contributing to and building an active Architecture community across capabilities and partners
- Providing in-depth expertise within at least one specialised domain of architecture, from: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service
- Building credible stakeholder relationships across the charity ensuring to value ideas, drive momentum, and challenge when required
- Balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic goals
- Translating complex information and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Driving the direction and output on day-to-day workload and priorities while navigating ambiguity and making clear and timely decisions in changing situations
- Mentor and coach colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous learning and leading through others
- Reducing costs by proactively challenging to enable the optimal cost of resource ownership and delivered architecture
- Building inclusive environments and working with third parties
Application process
- Closing date: 16 January 2025 23:55
- This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews with an exercise
- Interview date: From the week commencing 20 January 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company values
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
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Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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