Job summary
A critical role in ensuring integrated business technology strategy and delivery of effective solutions and services is the Solutions Architect position. The post holder will be responsible for providing technology solutions architecture and design leadership to national, regional, and local customers across England, ensuring that technology solutions and service aligns to the required business and operational outcomes necessary to support the objectives of our health and care customers.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and undertaking solutions architecture and design activities for SCW customers as part of significant and complex projects and other initiatives
- Working as part of multi-disciplinary consultancy delivery teams to ensure that technology solutions are efficient, robust, secure, and aligned with agreed outcomes and roadmaps
- Leading technical components of significant and complex consultancy work to time quality and cost
- Providing digital and technology strategic advice and guidance to NHS, Local Authority and third sector customers
You will be a key player in the development of the Architecture function within SCW's Transformation team and, in partnership with Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Digital Business Analysts, User Centred Design specialists and health and care subject matter experts ensuring a consistent, robust and professional approach to architecture and solution design.
About us
The candidate:
You should be educated to degree level or have equivalent, demonstrable experience. Knowledge and experience of solutions architecture and design within significant and complex projects is required, ideally in a healthcare context. In addition, you should be delivery minded, curious and tenacious to drive new ways of working and technology implementation to achieve step changes in delivery capability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Various locations available across the South of England
Further information on our specific requirements for this role is included in the Job Description and Person Specification.
For further information please contact: scwcsu.st.recruitment@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Various locations available across the South of England
Further information on our specific requirements for this role is included in the Job Description and Person Specification.
For further information please contact: scwcsu.st.recruitment@nhs.net
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence, Aspirational, Collaborative, Insightful, Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- System design and architecture, preferably up to an enterprise level
- Healthcare portals and data repositories (such as the Orion Health Clinical Portal and Data Repository)
- Personal Health Record systems (such as Patient's Know Best, Sitekit eRedbook)
- Health and Social Care information systems, NHS data sources, data sets and service providers
- Agile software development practices and of standard project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE2
- Web and mobile technologies, including Javascript and HTML
- Database and ETL technologies including NoSQL, SQL, T-SQL and Microsoft SSIS
- Able to gather and analyse system requirements
- System integration, preferably within a Health and Social Care environment.
- Clinical system integration standards including HL7v2, XDS and FHIR.
- Use of Open source and Open standards in health and social care integration - including GPConnect and CareConnect.
- System integration best practices and workflows including IHE profiles and ITK themes
- Relational database management concepts and design
- Software testing, practices and methods including automated testing frameworks
- NoSQL database concepts and design
- Development tools, preferably Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Management Studio and an Integration Engine IDE (such as Rhapsody IDE).
- GDPR and the law relating to it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders/customers both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. Including ability to communicate well with own team - on work/objectives/performance
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Excellent customer service skills; self-motivated; ability to move between details and the bigger picture
- Previously responsible for contributing to budget setting decision and a working knowledge of financial processes and achieving a financial target
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence, Aspirational, Collaborative, Insightful, Respectful
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- System design and architecture, preferably up to an enterprise level
- Healthcare portals and data repositories (such as the Orion Health Clinical Portal and Data Repository)
- Personal Health Record systems (such as Patient's Know Best, Sitekit eRedbook)
- Health and Social Care information systems, NHS data sources, data sets and service providers
- Agile software development practices and of standard project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE2
- Web and mobile technologies, including Javascript and HTML
- Database and ETL technologies including NoSQL, SQL, T-SQL and Microsoft SSIS
- Able to gather and analyse system requirements
- System integration, preferably within a Health and Social Care environment.
- Clinical system integration standards including HL7v2, XDS and FHIR.
- Use of Open source and Open standards in health and social care integration - including GPConnect and CareConnect.
- System integration best practices and workflows including IHE profiles and ITK themes
- Relational database management concepts and design
- Software testing, practices and methods including automated testing frameworks
- NoSQL database concepts and design
- Development tools, preferably Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Management Studio and an Integration Engine IDE (such as Rhapsody IDE).
- GDPR and the law relating to it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders/customers both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others. Including ability to communicate well with own team - on work/objectives/performance
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Excellent customer service skills; self-motivated; ability to move between details and the bigger picture
- Previously responsible for contributing to budget setting decision and a working knowledge of financial processes and achieving a financial target
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
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.
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