Job summary
- Main area
- IT
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC076-0425
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Location to be confirmed at interview
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Technical Architect
Band 8a
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you a dynamic, talented ICT Infrastructure professional seeking to expand your expertise in infrastructure and cloud technologies?
We have an opening for a 'Senior Technical Architect' with focus on Infrastructure and Cloud technologies. You'll become a member of a highly skilled Infrastructure Design team within Digital Health Care Wales (DHCW).
DHCW plays a key role in designing, procuring, building, and operating Health and Social Care services for NHS Wales. The Infrastructure Design team is responsible for technical design and assurance through a project’s lifecycle, acting as experts in various technologies, supporting DHCW and NHS organizations. Operating a cloud-first strategy, architects are required to oversee on-premise services and facilitate the transition to cloud services.
Main duties of the job
- Through engagement with colleagues throughout NHS Wales, perform unbiased research and design of innovative technologies for use in NHS Wales
- Author and critique a range document that could include high level / low-level designs, build scripts / sheets, options papers, feasibility studies, technical strategies, installation and operational qualification testing.
- Function as a subject matter expert on at least one area of technology
- Conduct and contribute (including presenting) on technical discussions based around, but not limited to, knowledge of the following:
- Hybrid and Multi Cloud architectures
- Cloud hosted collaboration solutions
- Compute and storage infrastructure technologies to an enterprise datacentre level
- Enterprise software defined networking, LAN, WAN and Firewall (ACLs, VPN)
- Microsoft based software technologies in complex enterprise environments
- Enterprise network security technologies
- Enterprise high availability and disaster recovery architectures
- Communicate with various stakeholders at all levels, including service owners / requestors & suppliers
- Provide technical expertise on procurements, assisting in the development of specifications and scoring
- Provide assurance of technical documents for both peers and external supplier documents
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is an expert national body and part of NHS Wales. We work in partnership with NHS Wales colleagues and other key stakeholders to provide national digital and data services which support the delivery of health and social care in Wales. Modern health and care services depend on good digital tools, data and information. DHCW runs or works with more than 100 services and delivers major national digital transformation programmes to support this. In addition, DHCW provides expert advice in relation to cyber security and information governance. We give frontline staff the digital tools which help them provide safer and more efficient care. We are also giving patients and the public digital tools to better manage their own health and wellbeing, empowering people to live healthier lives. We put people at the heart of what we do, working to the highest standards to deliver quality and make digital a force for good in health and care.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Existing experienced support ICT professional or architect with an in-depth focus on at least one technical area
Proven ability to adapt and learn new technical skills at short notice
Evidence of knowledge of on-premises infrastructure and cloud technologies
Excellent ability to author and edit technical and other documents
Be able to give and receive constructive criticism on documentation
Able to adapt to changing priorities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree Level or equivalent experience
- Proven experience as a technical architect.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Practitioner of Agile working with multi-disciplinary teams.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Familiar with a collection of methods, practises, tools and techniques, underpinned by the Agile Manifesto, which enable teams to deliver high value products and services in small, workable, increments. An Agile culture typically encompasses concepts such as Servant-Leaders; ceremonies, Stand-Ups, Sprints and Retrospectives; and the deployment of tools and techniques such as Backlogs and A/B Testing.
- Familiar with software tools which automate or assist part of the development process.
- Familiar with software that enables the user to capture, create, populate and manipulate data structures and where appropriate unstructured data.
- Aware of the planning and management of the interaction between two or more networking systems, computers or other intelligent devices.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Matthews
- Job title
- Lead Infrastructure Design Architect
- Email address
- [email protected]
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