Enterprise Architect (Azure Expertise) – OUTSIDE IR35 CONTRACT- London / Hybrid Sector: Digital Health / Regulated Industries A leading organisation is seeking a visionary Lead Architect to define and drive its enterprise-wide architecture strategy. This role is pivotal in shaping a unified, scalable, and modular technology platform that supports digital product innovation and international expansion — particularly across the EU. This is not just a delivery role. It’s about setting the architectural principles, structure, and systemic coherence across infrastructure, data, applications, and integrations — enabling high-quality experiences for patients and healthcare professionals. Why This Role Now? • EU Expansion: Harmonise architecture across jurisdictions with varying compliance, data residency, and operational models. • Platform Unification: Consolidate legacy systems into a modular, reusable platform architecture. • Digital Acceleration: Enable rapid product development without compromising interoperability, governance, or safety. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a unifying technical voice across Product, Engineering, Data, and Commercial teams. What We’re Looking For Essential Technical Skills: • Strong Azure Cloud expertise (AWS also valued) • Microsoft Dynamics CRM & ERP platforms • Patient-facing applications & healthcare UX design • Data governance & analytics with EU residency compliance • API-first/MACH architectures (Microservices, Cloud-native, Headless) • Multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud implementations • Regulated environments (Healthcare/Pharma/Financial Services) • MarTech tooling & headless CMS solutions Core Characteristics: • Vision & Clarity: Able to articulate a future-state architecture aligned with business strategy. • Principles-led Design: Grounded in sound architectural principles, not just trends. • System Thinker: Views architecture as a system-of-systems — from infrastructure to UX. • Pragmatic Execution: Balances scalability with lean governance; avoids overengineering. • Strong Collaborator: Influences across disciplines and senior stakeholders. • Regulatory Awareness: Experience designing within regulated environments (e.g. healthcare, pharma, finance). Key Responsibilities • Define and evolve target architecture for modular, therapy-agnostic digital platforms. • Support decisions around build vs. buy, platform reuse, and third-party integrations. • Bridge strategy and execution across delivery teams, product, and technology leadership. • Champion modern tooling: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, modular design. • Oversee architectural governance for new features, migrations, multi-market deployments, and compliance. Experience We Value • Designed scalable, API-first or MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architectures. • Led architecture in multi-region or regulated domains (healthcare, pharma, finance). • Deep experience with Azure (and ideally AWS) in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments. • Familiarity with CRM (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics), MarTech, and composable CMS platforms. • Delivered architectures with strong data governance, residency awareness, and analytics pipelines. • Worked in matrixed organisations, aligning architecture across federated teams. • Thrives in fast-paced, outcome-driven environments. Apply now for immediate consideration