Head of Architecture Practice

Job Description: Head of Architecture Practice London / Manchester / Staines Permanent We make health happen At Bupa, we are at the forefront of an exhilarating digital transformation journey, driven by our ambition to become the world's most customer-centric healthcare provider. Our mission is simple yet profound: to help people live longer, happier, healthier lives, and to make a better world. As The Head of Architecture Practice, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that our systems and processes are aligned with our strategic goals. This role is crucial in driving innovation and enhancing our services to provide exceptional experiences for our customers. Key Responsibilities Architecture Staffing and Management: work with product and platforms teams to provide architecture staffing, track supply vs demand, and manage expenditure. Governance and Standards: Administer practice governance, develop forums, and ensure smooth processes and standards. Professional Development: Steward the Architecture profession, develop coaching pathways, and manage tooling and artefact standards. Quality and Accountability: Ensure quality and accountability for deliverables, serve as the contact for methods and standards, and drive the architecture community. Strategic Alignment and Trends: Communicate practice direction, align with business strategy, analyse industry trends, and participate in governance forums. What We’re Looking For Significant experience as an architecture practitioner, ideally in software and platform engineering, and working in regulated industries. Experience in an equivalent practice management role within a global complex multi-P&L organization. Extensive experience in software architecture, design, development, and engineering. Excellent talent development and coaching skills, with evidence of having developed high-performing practitioners in architecture and design disciplines. Experience working within matrix structures, with demonstrated ability to broker outcomes effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and peers. Experience working with architecture design, modelling, and documentation toolsets, ideally Ardoq / Hopex. Commercial experience managing budgets, planning, and optimization. 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 medical insurance for you and your family as a benefit in kind An enhanced pension plan and life insurance Free health assessment for you and your spouse Target bonus of 25% based on individual and company performance Company car allowance 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 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 why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com Time Type: Full time Job Area: Locations: Angel Court, London Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference. Please introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that sounds like a good match.