Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Technical Architect

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Job summary

The Trust are recruiting a senior technical architect design, implement, review and deliver digital solutions in line with the Trusts digital strategy.

The Trust have an aim to utilise more of its cloud platform within Azure, this senior role will help inform technical architectural decisions around setup, high availability, performance and suitability. As part of this role you would be expected to lead implementation projects and follow best practices wherever possible.

This role will join a Cloud Architecture team within Digital and Data Services, with the team responsible for all aspects of the trusts Cloud tenant and its on-premise infrastructure estate.

This role will be based in the recently re-furbished Seaton Delaval offices, and will benefit from part at home, and part in the office working pattern, to ensure priorities, objectives and team culture are achieved and maintained.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Lead Technical Architect. You will have a trust level responsibility for the infrastructure implementation, availability and development of servers, cloud and end user compute architecture.
To lead large digital infrastructure projects through the stages of inception to completion.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enable and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Date posted

03 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7025010JN

Job locations

Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Delaval

NE25 0QJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Design, document, implement and peer-approve the architecture setup for the trust's server infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, systems, and end user compute infrastructure.
Usehigh levels of expertise to research and plan the required technical solutions, in line with the trust's digital strategy, and implement to published and Trust guided best practises.

Diagnose, investigate, plan and implement infrastructure projects to improve uptime, system availability and resilience.

Trust wide responsibility for outage escalations across on premise Infrastructure, cloud-based infrastructure, servers and end-user compute technology.

Working closely across other teams throughout the trust to ensure any project work and infrastructure changes are in the interest of all parties. Also that they are in accordance with IG, Clinical safety and security procedures.

Oversee and propose benefits realized and objective based outcome results assessments, create business cases and input into other department needs papers for operational boards.

Trust wide responsibility for defining the overall technical structure/reprovision of new, refreshed or upgrading, and current systems platform architecture.

Responsible for proactively researching, planning and reviewing new and current system structures used at the trust.

Uses their up-to-date knowledge of IT infrastructure to identify opportunities to use emerging technology to increase efficiency, reliability and flexibility across the entire technical estate.

Required to participate and be an SME on citi/sev 1 events where infrastructure could be a factor or impacted.

To work with and lead supplier engagements where liaison is required, along with technical supplier management and escalation.

To ensure high availability, security and usability of the infrastructure in place that is transparent to users and ensure Service Level Agreements are in place.

Part of the CITI 24/7 365 best endeavours callout rota for emergencies that relate to digital system downtime.

A member of the digital services call out rota within the skills discipline.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Design, document, implement and peer-approve the architecture setup for the trust's server infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, systems, and end user compute infrastructure.
Usehigh levels of expertise to research and plan the required technical solutions, in line with the trust's digital strategy, and implement to published and Trust guided best practises.

Diagnose, investigate, plan and implement infrastructure projects to improve uptime, system availability and resilience.

Trust wide responsibility for outage escalations across on premise Infrastructure, cloud-based infrastructure, servers and end-user compute technology.

Working closely across other teams throughout the trust to ensure any project work and infrastructure changes are in the interest of all parties. Also that they are in accordance with IG, Clinical safety and security procedures.

Oversee and propose benefits realized and objective based outcome results assessments, create business cases and input into other department needs papers for operational boards.

Trust wide responsibility for defining the overall technical structure/reprovision of new, refreshed or upgrading, and current systems platform architecture.

Responsible for proactively researching, planning and reviewing new and current system structures used at the trust.

Uses their up-to-date knowledge of IT infrastructure to identify opportunities to use emerging technology to increase efficiency, reliability and flexibility across the entire technical estate.

Required to participate and be an SME on citi/sev 1 events where infrastructure could be a factor or impacted.

To work with and lead supplier engagements where liaison is required, along with technical supplier management and escalation.

To ensure high availability, security and usability of the infrastructure in place that is transparent to users and ensure Service Level Agreements are in place.

Part of the CITI 24/7 365 best endeavours callout rota for emergencies that relate to digital system downtime.

A member of the digital services call out rota within the skills discipline.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience plus additional in depth specialist knowledge and expertise in IM&T, project management procedures and techniques.

Experience

Essential

Azure cloud services - IAAS, SAAS, Networking
Extensive and strong end-to-end troubleshooting skills for system networks and applications
Implementation experience of cloud solutions within Azure (1)

Desirable

Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience plus additional in depth specialist knowledge and expertise in IM&T, project management procedures and techniques.

Experience

Essential

Azure cloud services - IAAS, SAAS, Networking
Extensive and strong end-to-end troubleshooting skills for system networks and applications
Implementation experience of cloud solutions within Azure (1)

Desirable

Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Delaval

NE25 0QJ

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Delaval

NE25 0QJ

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)