Enterprise Solutions Architect (Band 8a)

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; Steeton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to shape the digital infrastructure for a new hospital build. This strategic role involves defining the Trust's Enterprise Architecture Blueprint, ensuring compliance with NHS strategies, and leading the design of integrated digital solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing architecture functions and working collaboratively with various stakeholders. This position offers the chance to impact healthcare delivery significantly.

Benefits

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Extensive Reward Scheme

Counselling Service

Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream

Staff Networks

Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing architecture functions in large organizations.
• Expertise in the IT environment relevant to the role.
• Ability to lead a geographically dispersed team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the enterprise architecture function with a focus on digital capabilities.
• Lead integration of systems supporting healthcare delivery.
• Communicate with stakeholders to align architecture with organizational goals.

Skills

Leadership

Project risk management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Master's degree in associated professional field

Job description

Enterprise Solutions Architect (Band 8a)

As the Enterprise Solution Architect for the Securing the Future (StF) programme at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the digital infrastructure of our New Hospital Build. This strategic position is responsible for defining and maintaining the Trust's Enterprise Architecture Blueprint, ensuring alignment with national NHS digital strategies, interoperability standards, and the Intelligent Hospital Capabilities (IHCs).

You will lead the design and integration of digital solutions across clinical, operational, and building management systems--including BMS, EMS, IoT, security, fire, and lighting--ensuring seamless data exchange and supporting the "golden thread" of information across the Trust ecosystem. Your work will directly contribute to safer, smarter, and more efficient healthcare delivery.

Collaboration is key: you'll work closely with the Digital Lead, Transformation Team, Estates, IT, and clinical stakeholders to ensure that solutions meet operational and clinical needs. You'll facilitate workshops, validate designs, and support the development of technical specifications and digital implementation roadmaps. The incumbent will be working closely with the Digital Senior Business Analyst and Digital Project Manager.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of healthcare infrastructure, contributing to a once-in-a-generation investment in digital transformation and sustainable hospital design.

Main duties of the job

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 visionsCommunicate 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

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Job responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oMaster's degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience).
• oFurther evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training
• oKnowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.

Experience

• oSignificant 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
• oExpert 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.

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.