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- 04/08/2024 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
TEL Education Platforms Senior Technical Architect
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TEL) delivers innovative programmes and services that facilitate the effective use of learning technologies and simulation-based education. This supports the delivery of NHS England's objectives, as well as those of other stakeholders in the health and care sectors, both regionally and nationally.
The team plays a key role in shaping policy related to educational delivery, workforce transformation, learning and development, and digital technology advancement. It provides thought leadership, guidance, and delivers digital services, programmes, and projects either independently or in collaboration with other initiatives.
We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect to join our Platforms workstream. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and optimisation of our digital learning platforms within our Azure Cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our platforms are robust, scalable, and secure, supporting a wide range of educational initiatives.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The TEL Education Platforms Senior Technical Architect (STA) will:
- Work at a system level and ensure effective technical architecture and solutions advice and support is provided to, developing, ongoing and future development, and to ensure alignment with the wider enterprise.
- Working with the Service Lead, they will use their strong negotiation and leadership skills to determine current and future states for the organisation and ensure others, many of whom will not be line managed by the post holder, are signed up to this shared enterprise-wide technical vision.
- Work to develop an acceptable organisational approach and transition plan for the operational delivery of technical architecture components and wider application and software development activities within TEL and linked where required across NHSE.
- Work to align the organisation to good and best practice, including the Government Digital Service frameworks (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard) and Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) standards.
- Be responsible if required for the budget and resources related to several services across TEL.
- Be required to design, deliver, maintain and support the technical environment upon which TEL’s platforms rely to deliver its programme of work. By ensuring the architecture supports a resilient and performant service delivery platform, this role protects the programme’s ongoing delivery.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The STA will work across NHS England and the wider operating landscape, to develop, support and continuously improve the technical architecture models and their lower-level components.
The role reports to the Deputy Director of TEL within NHSE to ensure coordination and alignment of business requirements and transformation, technologies, applications and data perspectives with the relevant policies, strategies, governance and technology that have been chosen to support a coherent and sustainable approach to managing information and technology.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a relevant specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma/master’s degree or significant equivalent proven experience in solutions architecture and specialist knowledge gained through professional development activities undertaken in a range of multidisciplinary fields, primarily relating to Architecture Frameworks and Information Technology and Agile delivery.
- Evidence of continuing professional development. Committed to ongoing self-directed research and investigation to ensure that emerging technologies are evaluated and explored where appropriate.
Meini prawf dymunol
- A professionally recognised qualification in architectural frameworks or architecture discipline for example TOGAF, Zachmann, PEAF, etc.
Knowledge and Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Able to lead on the development and activation of technical strategies, policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of commercial and industry best practice and alignment with corporate and DHSC rules and standards, including the adoption of the Government Digital Service Framework. Supporting the TEL team in establishing overall strategic control of the design and structure of TEL’s s information and technology architecture.
- Experience in developing, implementing and maintaining effectively architected technical solutions in operational environments that are flexible to change, supportive of wider business transformation and continuously improved.
- Set the strategy and approach for technical decisions on software, development, infrastructure and other technical aspects, and setting the wider governance of the technology domain and providing technical assurance responsibilities in-house and externally
- Experience in fostering a high degree of collective accountability for solutions architectural decisions operationally, within a strategic framework defined by the enterprise.
Knowledge and Experience. Demonstrable experience in:
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Delivering digital projects in agile environments.
- Data and system modelling using UML and other appropriate techniques
- Experience of developing software applications and services using of Application Services, APIs and Micro-services to build and architect distributed systems, including software engineering and best practice development methods.
- Experience of leading technical teams, coaching and mentoring colleagues. and recruiting technical candidates. Being a driver of culture change and developing a strong service delivery ethos and approach.
- Agile (Scrum) delivery development methods, including use of backlog management tools such as Jira
- Experience of a range of information technologies, such as: • In-house built – legacy and current • Commercial off the shelf (COTS) products • Open-source products and open-standards • Data interchange/API • Cloud based services e.g., Office 365, Azure, AWS and containerisation • Technical architecture and infrastructure.
- Experience in representing organisations at a national level with stakeholders across the community.
Skills and Capabilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Expert in a field where expertise does not currently exist within NHSE. The STA role will require the assessment of business requirements and the provision of a “best-fit” technological solution, which requires a high level of analytical capability using their judgement regarding the solution provision against a wide variety of conflicting internal and external factors.
- Must use a variety of planning and organisational techniques, especially “Agile” (Scrum. Lean, KanBan) and understand how they contribute to highly complex, long-term developments that affect the whole organisation.
- Expected to research and develop several technical theses, such as the optimum data model and the technical choices, dependant on the business context. This will require a continuous programme of research and development.
- Manage and develop several information systems including interpreting and developing information as a core part of the STA role specifically performance KPIs and other technical metrics e.g., transactions, to define the implications of technical decisions.
- Analytic Thinking: Proven ability to decompose a supplier solution design into a set of conceptual and logical IS / IT components that can be mapped against NHS England Enterprise Architecture for conformity checking.
- Analytic Thinking: Evidence of the application of FMEA thinking to a supplier solution and raising of issues appropriately.
- Assurance of Supplier Solutions: Demonstrable evidence of holding responsibility for the cross architectural dependencies and assurance of supplier technical documentation and solutions in conjunction with strategic objectives, standards and the Enterprise Architecture, ensuring the correct process are followed, issues are resolved, and appropriate risk mitigations are identified and implemented.
- Supplier Liaison: Demonstrable evidence of leading technical review meetings for contracts and suppliers and liaising with supplier senior technical staff
- Supplier Liaison: Proven ability in taking part in supplier negotiations (including supplier selection as part of a procurement or selection process) over difficult commercial and technical issues and express organisation’s position clearly and professionally.
Communication and Stakeholder Management
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Encourages effective communication between all involved proactively seeking out different styles and methods of communication to assist longer terms needs and aims.
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information and support delivery of such information to a wide range of differing groups at a senior level. This involves the use of the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to anticipate barriers to communication and taking action to improve communication and promote understanding in highly difficult and emotive circumstances.
- Excellent ability to exercise high levels of diligence when assessing or preparing documentation, especially when information is received from a variety of sources and may be conflicting.
- Able to maintain concentration and work effectively in a climate where there is an expectation that work patterns will have a large degree of unpredictability.
- Ability to lead and influence staff at all levels of the organisation and externally, initiating communications between stakeholders and acting as a single "technical" point of contact for defined groups to determine and implement a new future for NHSE.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders conveying complex concepts and where challenge is likely.
- Develops and maintains partnerships with a range of internal and external stakeholders and takes an active role in development team and stakeholder meetings, being a successful and persuasive negotiator and putting forward own view and that of the organisation.
- Encourages best practice across the organisation with appropriate use of networks.
- Articulates a vision for organisation focus which generates enthusiasm and commitment from both employees and patients/wider public
Teamwork and People Management/Development
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to work and make decisions autonomously guided by principles and broad polices/regulations and act based on own interpretation, prioritising own work effectively and be able to direct the activities of others
- Capable of effective planning over medium to long term timeframes making adjustments and planning resourcing accordingly.
- Ability to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands and anticipating and resolving problems before they arise.
- Ability to understand a broad range of highly complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution and makes decisions where a range of possible actions may be available, interpreting national policy for implementation offering subject matter expertise to influence direction.
- Is a role model for team in terms of delivery of high quality and performance and instils a culture of high quality and performance within team and develops ability in others to manage time effectively and respond positively and flexibly to differing workloads and priorities.
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Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Neil Ralph
- Teitl y swydd
- Deputy Director of Technology Enhanced Learning
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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- 07342 055777
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