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At Perceptive, we help the\nbiopharmaceutical industry bring medical\ntreatments to the market, faster.\nOur mission is to change the world\nbut to do this, we need people like you.\nWhat can we offer you?\nApart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:\n YOURSELF\n25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)\nHEALTH\nHealth Cash Plan\nOptional private health, dental insurance, and health screens\nCycle to work scheme\nWEALTH\nGenerous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution\nLife assurance\nSeason ticket loan\nAbout the role\nAs Solution Architect, Medical Imaging, you'll define and govern the end-to-end architecture for medical imaging solutions across the product landscape.\nWorking 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.\nDeploying your combination of architectural experience and deep medical imaging domain knowledge, you'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.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Requirements Definition & Management\nOwn product-level translation of functional and non-functional requirements across domains\n\nDefine and align NFRs (availability, scalability, resilience, security, privacy) for the product/portfolio\n\nHarmonize cross-domain requirements; resolve conflicts and drive consistent interpretation\n\nCoordinate constraints and dependencies with Platform, Data, Security, QA/RA, and Clinical stakeholders\n\nRun architecture refinement forums; align roadmap with technical runway and compliance needs\n\nEstablish requirement management practices and traceability expectations across programs\n\nArbitrate competing priorities across teams and stakeholders; manage systemic risks\n\nStandardize ADR taxonomy and governance processes across the product line\n\nCloud-Native SaaS Architecture Design\nDefine product-wide cloud topology and regional deployment strategy\n\nCoordinate cross-domain HA/DR, failover patterns, and capacity planning\n\nApprove major service choices, integration patterns, and data-plane/compute strategies\n\nDrive security-by-design and zero-trust posture across the product line\n\nStandardizemessaging, API contract, and integration approaches across domains\n\nDefine portfolio SLIs/SLOs and operationalguardrails;review deviations\n\nMentor application architects on distributed systems decisions and cloud trade-offs\n\nPlan evolution for scale, resilience, and cost efficiency across programs\n\n AI-Driven Medical Imaging Platform Development\nAlign AI services and capabilities across the product line to avoid duplication\n\nDefine experimentation and rollout patterns (shadow, A/B, canary) with rollback strategies\n\nCoordinate validation plans with QA/RA and Clinical SMEs for regulated releases\n\nEstablish AI governance checkpoints and product-level KPIs\n\nPlan capacity for accelerators (GPU) and cost controls for AI workloads\n\nStandardize AI architecture (registries, drift detection, retraining cadence) across programs\n\nHarmonize AI risk controls and documentation/evidence packages\n\nGuide adoption of emerging AI capabilities that fit clinical and regulatory needs\n\n Medical Image Viewer Integration & Workflow Design\nUnify viewer workflows and UX patterns across the product line\n\nDefine extensibility model and governance for plugins and SDKs\n\nResolve cross-domain integration issues (routing, session management, state consistency)\n\nValidate third-party viewer fit, vendor selection criteria, and compliance implications\n\nPlan scalability for concurrent reading sessions and global deployments\n\nStandardize reusable UI libraries and workflow service patterns across products\n\nOversee portfolio performance SLAs for visualization and workflow latency\n\nReview security posture for viewer ecosystem and integrations\n\nRegulatory Compliance & Security Architecture\nOwn product/portfolio compliance posture and validation approach\n\nAlign with InfoSec on secure-by-design patterns and zero-trust controls\n\nDefine segregation-of-duties, access models, and operational controls\n\nPlan DR/BCP scenarios and ensure periodic exercises across products\n\nEnsure vendor risk management and supplier controls across programs\n\nOversee remediation plans from audits, pen tests, and security assessments\n\nStandardizevalidation documentation templates and compliance reference patterns\n\nTrack regulatory changes and guide impact across the product line\n\n Database & Data Architecture for Medical Imaging\nDefine product data topology (e.g., lake/lakehousezones) and cross-domain ownership\n\nAlign cross-domain data contracts, APIs, and stewardship\n\nPlan replication/DR, cost, and performance for data platforms\n\nCoordinate privacy-by-design (anonymization, minimization) across products\n\nOversee cataloging and governance with Data teams\n\nStandardize portfolio data models, quality SLAs, and lineage policies\n\nPromote reusable datasets and semantic layers across products\n\nBenchmark cost/performance and guide technology selection\n\n Performance Optimization & Monitoring\nOwn product/portfolio observability strategy and standards\n\nPlan capacity and cost for peak clinical workloads across domains\n\nCoordinate resilience testing (chaos/failover) for critical paths\n\nDefine incident response, escalation, and operational readiness across products\n\nSet portfolio performance and resilience baselines and scaling playbooks\n\nBenchmark and publish performance scorecards across product lines\n\nGuide investments in observability and platform features\n\nCoach architects on performance anti-patterns and remediation\n\nTechnicalLeadership\nChair product architecture reviews and communities of practice\n\nAlign engineering leaders on roadmap, sequencing, and technical runway\n\nSet review criteria and quality bars for designs across domains\n\nCoordinatewith Security, Data, and Platformleadson cross-cutting concerns\n\nLead portfolio architecture governance and mentor architects\n\nResolve systemic technical debt and duplication across products\n\nRepresent architecture in portfolio investment planning\n\nPublish standards, patterns, and reference implementations\n\nInnovation\nDrive product/portfolio innovation themes and roadmaps\n\nAlignexperiments with clinical, regulatory, and operational needs\n\nPrioritizeinnovationinvestments with Product/PMO and engineering leadership\n\nBuild partnerships with vendors/start-ups for pilots and evaluations\n\nMeasure ROI and operationalization success; manage change and adoption\n\nScale validated patterns across products and retire legacy approaches\n\nEstablish metrics to compare pilots and outcomes across 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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\n\nExperience, Education and Certifications\nDemonstrable experience in technical delivery with a proven record in undertaking design and architecture activities\n\nSolution/Enterprise design experience essential - relevant qualification (e.g. TOGAF) desirable\n\nDesign methodology experience essential - relevant certification (e.g. UML) desirable\n\nExperience in scaled agile delivery essential - relevant certification (e.g. SAFe) desirable\n\nExperience in agile delivery essential - relevant certification (e.g. scrum) desirable\n\nBachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience\n\nEnglish: Fluent\n\nCome as you are.\nWe're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. 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