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Solutions Architect

The closing date is 11 August 2025

A Solution Architect working within the MoorConnect EPR Programme for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Solution Architect will play an integral role in driving the design and enabling the delivery of an integrated Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. This role will lead the technical design and realisation of mapped future state processes into usable workflows, integrations, and system configurations, ensuring alignment across the Trust's digital health ecosystem.

About us

What's in it for You?

At Moorfields, we invest in you--your growth, your wellbeing, your future.You'll join a flexible, supportive organisation offering:

o Competitive salary (including high-cost area supplement)o Membership of the NHS Pension Schemeo 24/7 independent counselling supporto Career-long learning and development opportunitieso Excellent transport connectionso Access to NHS and Blue Light discount schemeso Free Pilates classeso Full support and training to develop your skills

And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please view our Moorfields benefits leaflet.

Job responsibilities

• Process Mapping & Technical Consultation
  • Support colleagues in mapping future state clinical and operational processes.
  • Act as the technical point of contact for all process-related queries.
• Technical Validation & Design
  • Conduct technical analysis and validation of processes and workflows across the EPR programme, including Data Migration and integration delivery efforts.
  • Create and maintain solution design artefacts including electronic form templates, pre-fill rules, and module interaction diagrams.
  • Contribute to the EPR Blueprint and overall design documentation.
• Systems Integration
  • Document interface requirements and specifications between MEDITECH Expanse, OpenEyes, and other integrated systems
  • Provide information and collaborate with teams leading on system integration.
• Technical Advice & Collaboration
  • Provide procedural advice and input at working groups, huddles, and build meetings.
  • Support solution optimisation through technical insight and documentation.
• Documentation & Standards
  • Prepare formal documentation in line with Trust configuration and development management tools (e.g., DevOps, LeanIX).
  • Ensure alignment with operational and clinical safety standards and protocols.
  • Ensure that the trusts architecture management platform, LeanIX, is kept updated with new information as it is generated
  • Write formal specifications for agreed workflows and integrations, including how each vendors APIs will be used and details of any mappings or customisations required.
• Decision Support
  • Support decision-making through the co-authoring of Options Papers and technical design specifications addressing Trust topology and system architecture.
• Transition & Access Control
  • Develop Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) matrices in support of EPR implementation and wider ICT transition activities.
• Project Governance
  • Provide routine updates on status, progress, and blockers through established project governance channels.
• Handover & Support
  • Lead or support design handover sessions, ensuring complete documentation and availability for post-handover support.
• Additional Duties
  • Undertake any other tasks as directed by the Design Project Manager, with a focus on delivering EPR roadmap priorities such as prototype builds.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant University Degree and/or equivalent technical experience in an appropriate field

Experience

• Experience with healthcare technology solutions, especially the key workflows and terminology of the industry
• Demonstrable Solution architecture experience in healthcare technology, and an ability to explain their specific contributions to the design and implementation
• Demonstrable experience in clinical solution design involving digital systems and integration within healthcare settings.
• Proven ability to develop technical artefacts describing digital health environments.
• Experience with similar Electronic Patient Record platforms (MEDITECH Expanse(TM) and/or OpenEyes highly desirable).
• Previous involvement in NHS or Trust-based digital transformation programmes.
• Previous experience negotiating workflow and interface development with vendors is useful
• Previous experience with hands-on software development and programming is useful
• Previous team leadership experience (not necessarily line management) is useful

Knowledge

• Familiarity with configuration management and DevOps tools.
• Knowledge and experience with interoperability and interface standards, including HL7, FHIR, REST APIs; and coding standards such as SNOMED.
• Understanding of clinical workflows and governance in hospital environments.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

85,431 to 97,148 a yearPro rata for fixed term contract (Inc. HCAS)