Technical Architect

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you want to be part of a company that is striving to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK? At Simplyhealth, our health plans provide the opportunity to attend routine dental treatments, visit the optician, have complementary therapies (e.g. physio) and much more by providing financial support to those that really need it. 

But we’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing.

As a technical architect, you’ll be at the forefront of designing systems that deliver great products to our customers. You’ll have an innovative mind with a strong background in software engineering and product development. Using your experience of modern software engineering principles, you’ll also be an expert in architectural modelling and apply design patterns to solve real business and customer problems. 

Working with the product engineering squads, you’ll provide technical leadership and guide the squads in making technical decisions whilst driving the high-level intentional architecture. You’ll build strong relationships within the squads, mentoring them on how to build quality software and use your initiative to understand the business and technical context of the area that you’re working in.

Key responsibilities

•         Translating customer needs into technical designs following established standards
•          Apply modern software design patterns to meet functional and non-functional requirements
•          Communicating the architecture to various technical and non-technical audiences
•          Communicating complex ideas and concepts simply and elegantly and with impact
•          Performing architectural reviews
•         Create high quality architecture artefacts that are tailored to different audiences
•         Create diagrams, models and technical specifications
•         Coach delivery teams in building high quality software

As a Technical Architect, you will have a collaborative working style and help to drive a positive working relationship across the squads by providing great technical leadership.

• Designing and architecting modern software systems
•  Microservices and Event Driven architectures
• Diagramming tools like Mermaid, Visio, Gliphy or Draw.io
• Expert in at least two languages (i.e. Java,  C#, Go, Rust, Javascript / TypeScript, Python etc.)

• Working in product-led environment
• C4 Model and/or UML
• Mermaid and/or PlantUML

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Group bonus scheme
• Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
• 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days)
• Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
• Your own health plan
• Access to a wellbeing hub
• Shopping discounts
• Recognition awards
• Give as you earn
• 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more.