Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Enterprise Solutions Architect (Band 8a)

The closing date is 23 November 2025

Job summary

As the Enterprise Solution Architect for the Securing the Future (StF) programme at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the digital infrastructure of our New Hospital Build. This strategic position is responsible for defining and maintaining the Trust's Enterprise Architecture Blueprint, ensuring alignment with national NHS digital strategies, interoperability standards, and the Intelligent Hospital Capabilities (IHCs).

You will lead the design and integration of digital solutions across clinical, operational, and building management systems--including BMS, EMS, IoT, security, fire, and lighting--ensuring seamless data exchange and supporting the "golden thread" of information across the Trust ecosystem. Your work will directly contribute to safer, smarter, and more efficient healthcare delivery.

Collaboration is key: you'll work closely with the Digital Lead, Transformation Team, Estates, IT, and clinical stakeholders to ensure that solutions meet operational and clinical needs. You'll facilitate workshops, validate designs, and support the development of technical specifications and digital implementation roadmaps. The incumbent will be working closely with the Digital Senior Business Analyst and Digital Project Manager.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of healthcare infrastructure, contributing to a once-in-a-generation investment in digital transformation and sustainable hospital design.

Main duties of the job

Be an inspirational leader and an expert in your field, working autonomously on high profile systems and solutions.

Manage the enterprise architecture function within the organisation, taking a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.

Successfully lead and manage a geographically dispersed team, both from within the NHS, and wider industry working on multiple architecture projects or programmes.Define and connect strategies or visions across the organisation or ICS, enabling the implementation of shared strategies or visionsCommunicate persuasively and effectively, building relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple business or technical areas in the organisation and its partners.Set the strategy, and deliver technologies to enable the safe, secure and successful integration of systems across the hospital throughout the construction and operation of the building, incorporating clinical, construction and estates systems, a first for the NHS.Be skilled in project risk management and be proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the organisation and its partners.Work with technology partners to inform their roadmaps.Demonstrate an understanding of strategic issues, and be conversant with the organisation's IT strategy, policies and standards

About us

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

Cycle to Work
Travel Scheme
Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
Onsite Nursery
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

Committed to Quality of Care
Compassion
Working together for patients
Improving Lives
Everyone Counts
Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

423-7456981

Job locations

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oMaster's degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience).
oFurther evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training
oKnowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.

Experience

Essential

oSignificant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes
oExpert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oMaster's degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience).
oFurther evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training
oKnowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.

Experience

Essential

oSignificant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes
oExpert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD

Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD

Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)