Senior Solution Architect

Main area: Architecture & Standards

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c

Contract: Permanent: 7 FTE attached to this advert

Hours:

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 990-TD-D&A-6691593-E

Employer: NHS England

Employer type: NHS

Site: National

Town: Leeds / London

Salary: £74,290 – £85,601 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 03/12/2024 23:59

Senior Solution Architect

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play. As employers, we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high-quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Do you want to make a difference? Are you interested in joining an expert team working to transform health care technology in England? Do you have knowledge and experience in designing and delivering systems using Cloud services, Big Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Security & Digital strategy? If so, we may have a job for you. This is an exciting time to join NHS England as one of our Senior Solution Architects. The Architecture Profession provides a range of services to our internal and external stakeholders. We provide technical & solution architecture design, technical consultancy and technical/solution architecture ownership to national scale NHS programmes & organisations. The work we do makes a difference to patients and NHS staff at a national level.

Main duties of the job

We have a need for senior solution architects who have expertise in one of three specialist domains – Solution Architecture, Security Architecture or Enterprise Architecture, and ideally experience working with large scale data platforms. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will typically be responsible for the architecture for a large-scale system or domain, providing leadership to a team of Architects and supporting the Lead Technical or Solution Architect. Please see the attached assignment briefs for further details regarding the main duties for these roles.

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board has set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work. We will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit NHS England .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England holds a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route, you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This advert has attached Assignment Briefs/information relating to roles currently vacant. However, please be aware that this recruitment may also be used to fill other positions that become vacant after the time of advert, for which Assignment Briefs or team information are not available. This will be limited to roles where the competencies to be assessed and requirements for the role are appropriately similar.

Some of the skills and experience we’re looking for are:

• Deep knowledge of specific technical domains (Security, Enterprise or Solution Architecture) and experience providing advice regarding their application.
• Experience of making credible technical decisions and communicating these with sensitivity and diplomacy to ensure the right technical direction is followed.
• Experience of leading and delivering technical change, challenging the status-quo, anticipating problems and monitoring implementation progress.
• Experience of contributing to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business.
• Experience of managing staff to deliver across a large and complex domain of work, in terms of transaction and data volumes, technology complexity and number of active users.
• Experience of developing models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance.

Person specification

Knowledge

• Has knowledge of specific technical specialisms and is experienced in providing advice regarding their application. The specialism can be any relevant area of information technology, technique, method, product or application area (ideally Solution, Enterprise or Solution Architecture).

Experience

• Experienced in the provision of well-informed technology advice, taking steps to ensure that it is properly understood and appropriately exploited, to enhance the effectiveness of significant activities.
• Experienced in initiating communications between stakeholders, acting as a single “technical” point of contact for defined groups.
• Experience in the identification and application of design principles, policies and standards across a variety of programmes.

Skills

• Demonstrable evidence of leadership in the development of system and solution architectures in specific or service-wide business or functional areas.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent higher education qualification, specifically in a computing, scientific or mathematical subject (or equivalent such as would be acquired through a taught Masters course).

Our commitments to you

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.

Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.

NHS England

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Name: Aidan Davies-Webb

Job title: Deputy DIR: Technology & Security Architecture

Email address: (emailprotected)

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