Senior Solution Architect, Francis Crick
£64k
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Biomedical research institute
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Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£64k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Degree level education, ideally in Computer Science or related STEM subject (or equivalent experience)
- Experience working on IT/Software projects
- Experience in designing End to End solutions
- Demonstrable experience in hands-on software development, with previous experience as a developer
- Experienced in implementing and working with CI/CD pipelines and best working practices
- Up to date knowledge of Coding standards and coding best practices
What the job involves
- Reports to: James Clements
- This is a full-time, permanent position on Crick terms and conditions of employment
- The Information Technology Office (ITO) team within the Francis Crick Institute is responsible for the design, implementation and operation of IT services which manage the running of the institute, along with the publication and library services provided to scientists
- Within this team, this role will be responsible for the design of new services for a variety of different projects within the Crick, relating to Enterprise Resource Planning, Service Management, Data exploitation, Talent acquisition and management, and more
- This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s leading research Institutes at a crucial time in its evolution, and play a definitive role in shaping it for the future
- As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will be working with business analysts reviewing requirements and translating them into solution designs
- You will be working on multiple and different projects and business domains, collaborating with both technical and business stakeholders from across the organisation
- If you have a background as a developer and experience developing programming concepts, working with CI/CD pipelines and coding best practices, as well as cloud ecosystems, this may be a great opportunity for you to join the team
- Translate solution requirements into high level end-to-end solution designs across delivery projects
- Create compliant and robust solution architectures aligned with business and legal requirements, as well as policy
- Support architectural reviews and tooling decisions
- Managing stakeholder relationships – both technical and business
- Continual optimisation of services, and elimination of technical debt
- Proposals for introduction of new services, or transformation of existing ones, to meet the strategic objectives of the Crick
- Support the Development teams to develop, test and operate new enterprise software services
Application process
- Closing Date: 20/Jul/2025 23.59 GMT
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022, and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.4bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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