Strategic Enterprise Architect

Job summary

Youll be joining an organisation with ambitious plans to migrate its existing applications and infrastructure to modern platforms, cloud and digital services supported by leading edge technologies. You will be able to put your extensive architecture, solutions delivery and leadership skills to use, defining the architecture / business application visions, roadmaps and transition plans that are best for this organisation and leading and mentoring a great team of technology professionals. Reporting directly to the Chief Architect, you will gain exposure at Executive and Board level and be expected to demonstrate your understanding of technology and explain it in intelligible terms to a non-technical audience. We work closely with technologists in the Department of Health and Social Care and the Government Digital Service, and you will be able to demonstrate how putting users first in the design and delivery of technology services can lead to transformative change in a UK wide health and supply chain organisation. Note: This role offers a hybrid working option, but you will be assigned a base location at one of NHSBTs main centres.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will lead a team of enterprise and solution architects and business analysts to: Define strategic visions and roadmaps for how NHSBT will leverage common technology platforms across multiple directorates. This will require exceptional stakeholder management to secure support from senior managers and executives, ensuring alignment and harmonization of technology and business processes. Serve as the organizational expert and NHSBT lead for enterprise architecture, interpreting industry best practices and broad occupational policies for NHSBT. Utilize your understanding of technology and NHSBTs key challenges to drive innovation. Analyse NHSBTs strategic goals to identify the technology, data, and capabilities needed to achieve them. Identify and describe NHSBTs current business capabilities, data, and technology architecture using a formal methodology, and model this in an EA tool (iServer). Represent DDTS in organization-wide governance groups and forums. You will work closely with other architects to ensure best practices and design patterns are shared and followed across development teams. You will also initiate and deliver relevant technology evaluations and recommendations, and help define, implement, and govern NHSBT's approach to architecture. Please note that the role will require travel and time away from base, including working irregular hours and overnight stays when necessary, with prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.