Principal Architect APIs & Integration

Job Description: Principal Architect APIs & integration 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 Principal Architect for APIs, 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 Maintain the overall Internal and External APIs Technology Strategy and external developer experience. Specify standards, patterns, platform technology (e.g., API Gateways), API governance, and target state for effective at-scale market-unit-wide API management capabilities. Drive technical alignment across the API design community, including Enterprise, Solution Architecture, and Engineering, which spans multiple Business Units (BUs). Educate senior leadership (technology and business) to raise understanding of API-led technology architecture. Analyze industry trends to leverage technology and methodology advances. Set KPIs and perform progress tracking and reporting against target state and API controls. Participate in CTAO Leadership forums, conducting QA and Review of architecture deliverables and strategic API contracts. Serve as the single point of contact and escalation for architecture development across business units and with senior business and technology leadership. Communicate architecture direction and its alignment with business strategy and enterprise direction. Track progress and quality of architecture initiatives. Support business development activities and translate this to strategic API capability build for BGIUK Partnership strategy. What We’re Looking For Significant experience as an architecture practitioner with designing, operating, and evolving API-based systems, and redesigning applications to be API-driven. Experience in an architecture leadership role in a large organization servicing multiple internal business lines with both centralized and federated platforms. Expertise in modernizing large, complex API/microservices-based systems. Strong problem-solving, strategic, and creative thinking skills. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities. Deep and current experience in API Operations and Security, API Traffic Management, and in designing, building, and testing APIs. Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies. Proven track record of influencing, motivating, and developing technology and product teams without having direct line management responsibilities. Strong product design and development experience in a product-centric and agile environment. 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.co 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.