Solution Architect (Healthcare)

Company: Kainos
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Overview

As a Solution Architect (Manager) at Kainos, you lead multi-skilled agile teams to design and deliver high-quality solutions that delight customers and improve user outcomes. You advise customers and managers on design options, effort, and complexity while coaching a growing team. You set direction on policy, share knowledge, and explore new technologies to drive impactful outcomes in a collaborative, people-first culture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi-disciplinary agile teams to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Design and validate functional and non-functional architectures with customer architects
  • Advise on effort estimates, technical implications, and design complexity
  • Coach, develop, and manage performance of junior staff
  • Provide technical leadership, set standards, and mentor peers
  • Stay current with technologies and introduce new approaches to projects

Key requirements

  • Delivered software designs for multi-tier applications
  • Experience with whole solution architecture concepts and communicating with customer architects
  • Ability to prioritise non-functional requirements in design
  • Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) including SaaS and PaaS
  • Clear communication of technical designs in different formats
  • Decisive in fast-moving delivery environments
  • Proven ability to coach and develop junior members of the team
  • leadership
  • communication
  • coaching
  • cloud platforms: AWS, Azure
  • SaaS and PaaS offerings
  • multi-tier architecture

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Posted: October 23rd, 2026