Job summary
The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for defining the future Technology and Application Architecture for the Healthier Futures Programme, and the New Hospital Build.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the hospital of the future and create the technology and application architecture to support and intelligent hospital, which can support patients and staff both within, and outside the hospital walls. The role will be responsible for a large programme of IT and Application architecture projects, and enabling the hospital to realise it's future and an intelligent, joined up place to receive treatment and work.
Main duties of the job
As an Enterprise Architect, you will:
Be an inspirational leader and an expert in your field, working autonomously on high-profile systems and solutions.
Manage the enterprise architecture function within the organisation, taking a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.
Successfully lead and manage a geographically dispersed team, both from within the NHS, and wider industry working on multiple architecture projects or programmes.
Define and connect strategies or visions across the organisation or ICS, enabling the implementation of shared strategies or visions
Communicate persuasively and effectively, building relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple business or technical areas in the organisation and its partners.
Set the strategy, and deliver technologies to enable the safe, secure and successful integration of systems across the hospital throughout the construction and operation of the building, incorporating clinical, construction and estates systems, a first for the NHS.
Be skilled in project risk management and be proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the organisation and its partners.
Work with technology partners to inform their roadmaps.
Demonstrate an understanding of strategic issues, and be conversant with the organisation's IT strategy, policies and standards.
About us
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). Our services include planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care, child health, maternity, and intermediate care across Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area's largest employers.
Since the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust has become a key partner in Cheshire East & Cheshire West and Chester and in two provider collaboratives, aligning our strategic goals with the Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care System.As part of the national New Hospital Programme, we're reimagining Leighton Hospital to create a new health and care neighbourhood, transforming healthcare delivery for a Healthier Future. Learn more on our Healthier Futures website.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide visible and effective leadership, creating a culture of excellence through continuous improvement and learning from experience.
Carry out analysis at a strategic level and develop business proposals to exploit technology in line with the organisation's mission, objectives and strategy.
Identify and address highly complex architectural risks across the organisation or wider government.
Engage with a range of high-level strategic stakeholders (technical and others), providing, receiving and analysing highly complex, sensitive and often contentious technical, administrative, financial and specialist information.
Present highly complex technical data regarding systems, governance and risks effectively to stakeholders, including at Board level, to facilitate decision-making.
- Implement appropriate checks and controls to protect all assets held and managed by the organisation, including lifecycle management.
For more details, see full job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide visible and effective leadership, creating a culture of excellence through continuous improvement and learning from experience.
Carry out analysis at a strategic level and develop business proposals to exploit technology in line with the organisation's mission, objectives and strategy.
Identify and address highly complex architectural risks across the organisation or wider government.
Engage with a range of high-level strategic stakeholders (technical and others), providing, receiving and analysing highly complex, sensitive and often contentious technical, administrative, financial and specialist information.
Present highly complex technical data regarding systems, governance and risks effectively to stakeholders, including at Board level, to facilitate decision-making.
- Implement appropriate checks and controls to protect all assets held and managed by the organisation, including lifecycle management.
For more details, see full job description
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Master's degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience)
- Further evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training.
- Knowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices
Desirable
- FEDIP Leading Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Advanced Professional qualification.
- Theoretical and specialist knowledge gained via relevant certification such as: oTOGAF Certification oAWS, GCP or Azure Certification
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS, or other healthcare systems and services, including the political, strategic, and operational environments in which they operate.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes.
- Expert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.
- Proficient in the analytical comparison of IT products against specified criteria (including costs) to determine the solution that best meets the business need.
- Expert in performing a proof of concept or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.
- Proficient in methods and techniques for coaching individuals or groups by a balanced combination of support and direction, which could include use of virtual learning environments plus add-ons to augment feedback specific to work items, workflow or career plans.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Analytical thinking skills to acquire a proper understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships between these parts. To select the appropriate method/tool to resolve the problem and reflect critically on the result, so that what is learnt is identified and assimilated.
- Conceptual thinking skills to acquire understanding and insights regarding the underlying issues in complex problems or situations through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.
- Organisational awareness skills to understand the hierarchy and culture of own, customer, supplier and partner organisations and to be able to identify the decision makers and influencers.
- Leadership skills to clearly articulate goals and objectives, and to motivate and lead others towards their achievement.
- Influence, persuasion and personal impact skills to convey a level of confidence and professionalism when engaging with stakeholders, influencing positively and persuading others to take a specific course of action when not in a position of authority.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Master's degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience)
- Further evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training.
- Knowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices
Desirable
- FEDIP Leading Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Advanced Professional qualification.
- Theoretical and specialist knowledge gained via relevant certification such as: oTOGAF Certification oAWS, GCP or Azure Certification
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS, or other healthcare systems and services, including the political, strategic, and operational environments in which they operate.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes.
- Expert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.
- Proficient in the analytical comparison of IT products against specified criteria (including costs) to determine the solution that best meets the business need.
- Expert in performing a proof of concept or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.
- Proficient in methods and techniques for coaching individuals or groups by a balanced combination of support and direction, which could include use of virtual learning environments plus add-ons to augment feedback specific to work items, workflow or career plans.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Analytical thinking skills to acquire a proper understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships between these parts. To select the appropriate method/tool to resolve the problem and reflect critically on the result, so that what is learnt is identified and assimilated.
- Conceptual thinking skills to acquire understanding and insights regarding the underlying issues in complex problems or situations through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.
- Organisational awareness skills to understand the hierarchy and culture of own, customer, supplier and partner organisations and to be able to identify the decision makers and influencers.
- Leadership skills to clearly articulate goals and objectives, and to motivate and lead others towards their achievement.
- Influence, persuasion and personal impact skills to convey a level of confidence and professionalism when engaging with stakeholders, influencing positively and persuading others to take a specific course of action when not in a position of authority.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
