Job summary
- Main area
- Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT)
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 891-CSU-7832CS
- Employer
- NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bristol
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Technical Architect
Band 8a
We want SCW to be a great place to work, where we all feel safe and can be our authentic selves. This means valuing and respecting everyone from all backgrounds and embracing equality, diversity, inclusivity & wellbeing across everything we do. We are committed to listening, learning and improving on our approach to ensure these principles remain at our heart, helping us all to thrive.
Job overview
SCW is seeking a Technical Architect to work on its exciting portfolio of digital projects. Primarily on network, cloud and infrastructure projects and modern workplace projects.
Working closely with and supported by the Solutions Architect`s your function is the delivery of complex new services, both for our internal/external customers and partners. You will be involved in the Azure and AWS public cloud space and more widely Modern Workplace projects using Intune on the NHS Shared Tenant. Other areas of specialist projects include enterprise-wide enhancements to: Identity, Security, BYOD, Device Management, Big Data (Trusted Research Environments).
This is an interesting, exciting role where there is a wide scope of work and opportunities to lead change.
Main duties of the job
· Provide subject matter expertise in the above domains
· Liaises with stakeholders, communicating highly complex technical concepts and complex issues, clearly and accurately, and adapting communication style to suit the recipient
· Produces written information of a high quality, which clearly sets out architecture designs (HLD, LLD), roadmaps, key issues, options, and outcomes.
· The post holder must be able to communicate effectively, with stakeholders with good reasoning and negotiation skills.
· Contribute to the technical delivery of a service, ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time within agreed budgets
· Works cooperatively and productively with others to achieve results within their team
· You will be expected to work independently under the guidance of one of our Senior SME’s, and as such will need to be able translate basic customer requirements into a design.
Working for our organisation
You will be working in a close-knit team, currently consisting of 3 Senior solution Architects and 8 Programme delivery resources.
· Work closely with our senior Solution Architects
· Hybrid working pattern with is currently mostly remote.
· We are a geographically dispersed team
· Supportive environment
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a fixed term role for 1 year with the potential to convert to a substantive role subject to funding.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Person specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Patient First – Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant professional body
- TOGAF
- CCNP or MS Azure administrator
- ITIL Foundation
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Experience of leading a team across multiple workstreams, managing conflicting priorities.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of conducting staff performance reviews
- Understanding of the public sector
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders/clients 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 make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes, projects and services on time using established project management techniques
- Excellent client service skills; Team working skills; Self-motivated; Ability to move between details and the bigger picture. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
- Experience in solutions design
- Experience of the design, documentation, and successful implementation of new or changed operational processes.
- Ability to interpret contracts and SLAs to ensure effective delivery within the terms of the agreement
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/clients on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/clients
- Excellent understanding of infrastructure management, backup methodologies and implementation.
- Excellent understanding of Application Management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Thompson
- Job title
- Head of Enterprise Architecture & Design
- Email address
- [email protected]
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