Role: Dental Solution Architect

Location: Bath (Hybrid)

Clearance: Active SC Clearance or SC eligible

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Dental Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, resilient dental IT solutions for complex and often disconnected environments. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep dental systems knowledge with hands-on architectural experience in offline/edge deployments and a strong understanding disconnected solution e.g. across land, sea and air

Translating clinical and operational requirements into scalable technical architectures, ensuring solutions work reliably in low-connectivity settings while meeting stringent security and compliance standards expected in defence environments, including alignment with creating technical requirements to support procurement of Dental services

Working with the business and procurement teams to undertake document review, review of non-functional requirements and update. Supporting procurement activities for the development of the ITN and vendor selection. What are the recommendations market analysis.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end solution architecture for dental platforms operating in disconnected or intermittently connected environments (e.g., deployed clinics, mobile units, remote facilities).

Design secure, resilient architectures covering:

• Practice management systems
• Dental imaging and records
• Clinical workflows
• Data synchronisation and replication

Define offline-first and edge patterns, including:

• Local data stores
• Sync conflict resolution and understand challenges
• Store-and-forward models
• Secure data exchange between disconnected and sync into HealthShare (InterSystems etc)
• Work closely with clinical stakeholders, product teams, engineers, and security specialists to turn operational needs into robust technical designs.

Produce high-quality architectural artefacts:

• High-level and low-level designs and approvals for Assurance
• Data flows
• Security models
• Integration patterns and designs to support Assurance business approvals
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, providing architectural governance and technical leadership for Alpha (MVP) and stage environments for testing
• Evaluate vendors and technologies for suitability in constrained and regulated environments.
• Support accreditation and assurance activities where required.

Essential Experience & Skills

Proven experience as a Solution Architect (or similar senior technical role).

Strong background in dental IT systems, such as:

• Dental PMS / EHR
• Imaging (DICOM or equivalent)
• Clinical workflows
• Demonstrable experience designing disconnected / low-bandwidth solutions, including:
• Offline-first architectures
• Edge deployments
• Data synchronisation strategies

Solid understanding of UK defence environments, including:

• Secure system design
• Working within regulated or classified contexts
• Stakeholder engagement in defence programmes
• Experience with modern architectures (cloud, hybrid, edge).
• Strong data architecture knowledge (structured clinical data, imaging, replication).
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to clinical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience supporting military or government healthcare programmes.
• Familiarity with NHS or UK public-sector health systems.
• Knowledge of interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, DICOM).
• Security architecture experience (Zero Trust, identity federation, encryption). xbpsjku
• Previous work on deployable or mobile healthcare platforms.