Solution Architect, Medical Imaging

Job description

We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster. Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you. What can we offer you? Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you: YOURSELF • 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more) HEALTH • Health Cash Plan • Optional private health, dental insurance, and health screens • Cycle to work scheme WEALTH • Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution • Life assurance • Season ticket loan About the role As Solution Architect, Medical Imaging , you'll define and govern the end‑to‑end architecture for medical imaging solutions across the product landscape. Working remotely in the UK, in this newly created role your brief will be to ensure that applications, domains, and platform services integrate coherently to deliver scalable, reliable and compliant imaging workflows which support global clinical trials. Deploying your combination of architectural experience and deep medical imaging domain knowledge, y ou'll translate product strategy and business objectives into solution‑level architectural direction, aligning multiple domains, teams and stakeholders around a unified technical vision. You'll be responsible for product‑wide architectural consistency, non‑functional requirements, security and regulatory alignment and technical risk management. Working closely with Product, Clinical, QA/RA, Security, Platform Engineering and Application Architects, your priority will be to guide architectural decisions which balance delivery efficiency, long‑term sustainability and business value. Key Responsibilities Technical Requirements Definition & Management ​ Own product-level translation of functional and non-functional requirements across domains ​ Define and align NFRs (availability, scalability, resilience, security, privacy) for the product/portfolio ​ Harmonize cross-domain requirements; resolve conflicts and drive consistent interpretation ​ Coordinate constraints and dependencies with Platform, Data, Security, QA/RA, and Clinical stakeholders ​ Run architecture refinement forums; align roadmap with technical runway and compliance needs ​ Establish requirement management practices and traceability expectations across programs ​ Arbitrate competing priorities across teams and stakeholders; manage systemic risks Standardize ADR taxonomy and governance processes across the product line Cloud‑Native SaaS Architecture Design ​​ Define product-wide cloud topology and regional deployment strategy ​ Coordinate cross-domain HA/DR, failover patterns, and capacity planning ​ Approve major service choices, integration patterns, and data-plane/compute strategies ​ Drive security-by-design and zero-trust posture across the product line ​ Standardize messaging, API contract, and integration approaches across domains ​ Define portfolio SLIs/SLOs and operational guardrails; review deviations ​ Mentor application architects on distributed systems decisions and cloud trade-offs ​ Plan evolution for scale, resilience, and cost efficiency across programs ​ AI‑Driven Medical Imaging Platform Development ​ Align AI services and capabilities across the product line to avoid duplication ​ Define experimentation and rollout patterns (shadow, A/B, canary) with rollback strategies ​ Coordinate validation plans with QA/RA and Clinical SMEs for regulated releases ​ Establish AI governance checkpoints and product-level KPIs ​ Plan capacity for accelerators (GPU) and cost controls for AI workloads ​ Standardize AI architecture (registries, drift detection, retraining cadence) across programs ​ Harmonize AI risk controls and documentation/evidence packages ​ Guide adoption of emerging AI capabilities that fit clinical and regulatory needs ​ Medical Image Viewer Integration & Workflow Design ​ Unify viewer workflows and UX patterns across the product line ​ Define extensibility model and governance for plugins and SDKs ​ Resolve cross-domain integration issues (routing, session management, state consistency) ​ Validate third-party viewer fit, vendor selection criteria, and compliance implications ​ Plan scalability for concurrent reading sessions and global deployments ​ Standardize reusable UI libraries and workflow service patterns across products ​ Oversee portfolio performance SLAs for visualization and workflow latency ​ Review security posture for viewer ecosystem and integrations ​ Regulatory Compliance & Security Architecture ​ Own product/portfolio compliance posture and validation approach ​ Align with InfoSec on secure-by-design patterns and zero-trust controls ​ Define segregation-of-duties, access models, and operational controls ​ Plan DR/BCP scenarios and ensure periodic exercises across products ​ Ensure vendor risk management and supplier controls across programs ​ Oversee remediation plans from audits, pen tests, and security assessments ​ Standardize validation documentation templates and compliance reference patterns ​ Track regulatory changes and guide impact across the product line ​ Database & Data Architecture for Medical Imaging ​ Define product data topology (e.g., lake/ lakehouse zones) and cross-domain ownership ​ Align cross-domain data contracts, APIs, and stewardship ​ Plan replication/DR, cost, and performance for data platforms ​ Coordinate privacy-by-design (anonymization, minimization) across products ​ Oversee cataloging and governance with Data teams ​ Standardize portfolio data models, quality SLAs, and lineage policies ​ Promote reusable datasets and semantic layers across products ​ Benchmark cost/performance and guide technology selection ​ Performance Optimization & Monitoring ​ Own product/portfolio observability strategy and standards ​ Plan capacity and cost for peak clinical workloads across domains ​ Coordinate resilience testing (chaos/failover) for critical paths ​ Define incident response, escalation, and operational readiness across products ​ Set portfolio performance and resilience baselines and scaling playbooks ​ Benchmark and publish performance scorecards across product lines ​ Guide investments in observability and platform features ​ Coach architects on performance anti-patterns and remediation ​ Technical Leadership ​ Chair product architecture reviews and communities of practice ​ Align engineering leaders on roadmap, sequencing, and technical runway ​ Set review criteria and quality bars for designs across domains Coordinate with Security, Data, and Platform leads on cross-cutting concerns ​ Lead portfolio architecture governance and mentor architects ​ Resolve systemic technical debt and duplication across products ​ Represent architecture in portfolio investment planning ​ Publish standards, patterns, and reference implementations ​ Innovation ​ Drive product/portfolio innovation themes and roadmaps Align experiments with clinical, regulatory, and operational needs ​ P rioritize innovation investments with Product/PMO and engineering leadership ​ Build partnerships with vendors/start-ups for pilots and evaluations ​ Measure ROI and operationalization success; manage change and adoption ​ Scale validated patterns across products and retire legacy approaches ​ Establish metrics to compare pilots and outcomes across programs Facilitate knowledge sharing and communities for innovation Functional Competencies (Technical Knowledge/Skills) Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail Shows initiative and self-confidence is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment Ability to manage provision of consultancy services. In own areas of expertise, is able to provide advice and guidance to consultants and/or the customer or other stakeholders through involvement in the delivery of consultancy services Experience, Education and Certifications Demonstrable experience in technical delivery with a proven record in undertaking design and architecture activities Solution/Enterprise design experience essential - relevant qualification (e.g. TOGAF) desirable Design methodology experience essential - relevant certification (e.g. UML) desirable Experience in scaled agile delivery essential - relevant certification (e.g. SAFe) desirable Experience in agile delivery essential - relevant certification (e.g. scrum) desirable Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience English: Fluent Come as you are. We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.