Lead Architect

Enterprise Architect (Azure Expertise) – OUTSIDE IR35 CONTRACT- London / Hybrid

Sector: Digital Health / Regulated Industries

A leading organisation is seeking a visionary Lead Architect to define and drive its enterprise-wide architecture strategy. This role is pivotal in shaping a unified, scalable, and modular technology platform that supports digital product innovation and international expansion — particularly across the EU. This is not just a delivery role. It’s about setting the architectural principles, structure, and systemic coherence across infrastructure, data, applications, and integrations — enabling high-quality experiences for patients and healthcare professionals. Why This Role Now?

EU Expansion: Harmonise architecture across jurisdictions with varying compliance, data residency, and operational models.
Platform Unification: Consolidate legacy systems into a modular, reusable platform architecture.
Digital Acceleration: Enable rapid product development without compromising interoperability, governance, or safety.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a unifying technical voice across Product, Engineering, Data, and Commercial teams. What We’re Looking For
Essential Technical Skills:

Strong Azure Cloud expertise (AWS also valued)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM & ERP platforms
Patient-facing applications & healthcare UX design
Data governance & analytics with EU residency compliance
API-first/MACH architectures (Microservices, Cloud-native, Headless)
Multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud implementations
Regulated environments (Healthcare/Pharma/Financial Services)
MarTech tooling & headless CMS solutions
 
Core Characteristics:

Vision & Clarity: Able to articulate a future-state architecture aligned with business strategy.
Principles-led Design: Grounded in sound architectural principles, not just trends.
System Thinker: Views architecture as a system-of-systems — from infrastructure to UX.
Pragmatic Execution: Balances scalability with lean governance; avoids overengineering.
Strong Collaborator: Influences across disciplines and senior stakeholders.
Regulatory Awareness: Experience designing within regulated environments (e.g. healthcare, pharma, finance). Key Responsibilities
Define and evolve target architecture for modular, therapy-agnostic digital platforms.
Support decisions around build vs. buy, platform reuse, and third-party integrations.
Bridge strategy and execution across delivery teams, product, and technology leadership.
Champion modern tooling: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, modular design.
Oversee architectural governance for new features, migrations, multi-market deployments, and compliance.
Experience We Value

Designed scalable, API-first or MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architectures.
Led architecture in multi-region or regulated domains (healthcare, pharma, finance).
Deep experience with Azure (and ideally AWS) in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
Familiarity with CRM (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics), MarTech, and composable CMS platforms.
Delivered architectures with strong data governance, residency awareness, and analytics pipelines.
Worked in matrixed organisations, aligning architecture across federated teams.
Thrives in fast-paced, outcome-driven environments.
Apply now for immediate consideration