Total 4 job vacancies by NHS Jobs

In this role, you are accountable for 1. Collaboratively define as-is and to-be architectures to develop full technical solutions designs including preparation of technical artefacts, and blueprints; providing a high quality of cost estimation for submission into internal and external business cases and assessments. 2. Undertake and lead on investigative analysis within multidisciplinary teams, providing technical authority, making credible and practical technical decisions, communicating these with sensitivity and diplomacy to ensure the right technical direction is followed. 3.Prolonged preparation of papers for highly complex designs, working independently. 4. Lead and facilitate scoping and priority setting of large or highly complex changes, to enable the delivery to team to provides robust options appraisals and recommendations; harmonising across infrastructures and technologies wherever possible and selecting the most appropriate means to communicate information. 5. Proactively devising and managing initiatives to deliver capacity, performance and system availability improvements to meet or exceed targets. 6. Translating designs both logical and physical to support user friendly processes and systems, and communication of this across a variety of stakeholders including, business areas, projects or programme teams. 7. Sets technical standards, tools, techniques and methods and advises and influences others to adopt these to ensure consistency across the organisational approaches to designs. 8. Monitoring the development of new and emerging tools, technologies and products to assess potential value and identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, products and services within the organisation. 9. Taking a major role to identify and share good practices, participating in relevant communities of practice to drive adoption of design standards, trends and patterns. 10. Working under general direction; planning your own work to achieve agreed objectives, seeking information when unclear, and escalating as appropriate, any issues or conflicting priorities which may impact deadlines. 11. Actively participating and contributing to quality assurance reviews of your work through a variety of approaches such as peer review, learning logs, and engaging in appropriate communities. Staff 12. Planning, formulating and organising a broad range of highly complex plans, adjusting the strategic direction and adjusting those plans and then cascade to the team. Develop the architectural teams resource and training plans and set standards expected in workforce management. Identify and collate training needs and a blended approach to meeting these needs that supports the continual professional development of a highly skilled workforce. 13. Receive and act upon, and where possible resolve a range of escalations including staffing, disciplinary, resourcing business and technical, to secure satisfactory outcomes. Where unable to resolve, providing sufficient detail, escalate to the appropriate levels within the organisations, within agreed policies, procedures and processes to ensure appropriate resolution. 14. Undertake recruitment and selection in line with organisational processes and participate in the implementation and delivery of initiatives to secure suitable resources, increase skills levels and develop talent pools to meet the changing needs of the business landscape. 15. Seeking, providing and taking feedback to support and encourage teams and individuals to develop thinking and independently work through issues, to reach solutions-based outcomes. Taking full accountability for the approach and decision-making practices within area, including providing positive challenge to ideas and solutions. 16. Line management for the Architecture team, including agreement of leave, reporting of absence, assigning resources to specific projects, developing and co-ordinating the pipeline of work for the team. 17. Creation and implementation of development plans for the Architecture team, including the creation, monitoring and delivery of career pathways. 18. Deputise for the Enterprise Architect in specified times of absence, leave, reporting, or working on specific projects on behalf of the EA. Financial Management 19. Maintain an awareness of financial and personal implications in the use of a range of resources. 20. Responsibility for contributing to budget management processes in accordance with NHSBSAs policies, standing orders, financial regulations and legislative requirements. 21. Budget manager for the architecture team in accordance with NHSBSAs policies, standing orders, financial regulations and legislative requirements, and the development of business plans including highly sensitive data. 22. Develop proposals for future investment including both technology refresh and project- based change; preparing necessary estimates, mandates and business cases within the technology department and providing estimates for such led by other departments. Relationship Management 23. Identify opportunities to engage and foster relationships and partnership working within the business and with third parties, to identify and deliver value to the organisation. Information Management 24. Maintain an awareness of agreed service levels, KPI's and standards within team, reviewing own performance and adapt own approach to maximise the delivery to support and meet agreed standards. 25. Responsibility for multiple systems and services across the organisation, the approval and implementation of processes to review, analyse, monitor and report on a number of areas including agreed service levels, KPI's and standards within team. Reviewing the performances of teams and projects in delivery of services against defined service levels, checking for trends that may trigger reduced performance and investigating where performance is below the agreed thresholds. Ensure that in managing performance a holistic approach is taken and that consideration is given to people, process, changes in demand and tools. Delivery Management 26. Input into workforce planning, ensuring required operational commitments are fully met, business change is estimated, prioritised, and delivered, resourcing issues are identified, mitigated and managed to deliver business value. 27. Delivering continuous improvements to enhance own and business areas; co-ordinating and delivery of work across multiple strands such as continuous improvement, project related work, and lifecycle management, escalating issues at appropriate times. 28. Manage, and input into the development and implementation of approaches, strategies, standards, practices and policies across the team, ensuring and monitoring the timely delivery of business objectives within budget through the management of projects and programmes. 29. Architectural input into the creation of high quality functional and non-functional requirements to ensure the overall needs of the business are met as well as adherence to business objectives and alignment with strategic direction. 30. Participating in procurement processes for full solutions that meet business needs. 31. Leading, managing and engaging teams to deliver multiple strands of work such as continuous improvement, project related work, and operational tasks, both within the organisation and across external bodies to meet strategic goals and deliver high quality outputs for the organisation. 32. Leading on strategic procurement of hardware and software for various areas of the organisation, including selecting suppliers, accountability for delivery of quality outputs, meeting delivery timescales. Giving full consideration to cost, specification, maintenance and support to ensure the overall needs of the business are met from an ICT perspective, and that they are aligned with the business and ICT strategic directions

In this role, you are accountable for: Collaboratively define as-is and to-be architectures to develop full technical solutions designs including preparation of technical artefacts, and blueprints; providing a high quality of cost estimation for submission into internal and external business cases and assessment. Undertake and lead on investigative analysis within multidisciplinary teams, providing technical authority, making credible and practical technical decisions, communicating these with sensitivity and diplomacy to ensure the right technical direction is followed. Facilitate scoping and priority setting of large or complex changes, to enable the delivery to team to provides robust options appraisals and recommendations; harmonising across infrastructures and technologies wherever possible and selecting the most appropriate means to communicate information. Proactively devising and managing initiatives to deliver capacity, performance and system availability improvements to meet or exceed targets. Translating designs both logical and physical to support user friendly processes and systems, and communication of this across a variety of stakeholders including, business areas, projects or programme teams. Sets technical standards, tools, techniques and methods and advises and influences others to adopt these to ensure consistency across the organisational approaches to designs. Monitoring the development of new and emerging tools, technologies and products to assess potential value and identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, products and services within the organisation. Taking a major role to identify and share good practices, participating in relevant communities of practice to drive adoption of design standards, trends and patterns. Working under general direction; planning your own work to achieve agreed objectives, seeking information when unclear, and escalating as appropriate, any issues or conflicting priorities which may impact deadlines. Actively participating and contributing to quality assurance reviews of your work through a variety of approaches such as peer review, learning logs, and engaging in appropriate communities. In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to: Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the overall purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager. Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work. Foster an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted. Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion. Comply with NHSBSA policies, procedures and protocols as they apply to your role. Working relationships Responsible to: Enterprise Architect Key relationships and connections: Team members Service delivery teams Business stakeholders Service Managers Suppliers Peer Networks

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In this role you are accountable for:1. Take a holistic approach to design, develop a re-use approach as much as possible and have ownership across the BSA for Technologyarchitectural standards, project or programme IT architecture, leading a team of multi-disciplined architects; you will be responsible forNHSBSA governance forums, IT solutions designed for significant areas of the business.2. Define clearly as-is and to-be architectures and clearly document the solution architectures for the business service and its integration inthe overall Enterprise Architecture. Preparation of technical artifacts for submission into GDS assessments; and business cases, bothinternal and external.3. Undertake and lead on investigative analysis, facilitate scoping and priority setting of large or highly complex changes, providing optionsappraisals and recommendations, to feed into business cases providing accurate cost estimation, and selecting the most appropriate meansto communicate information.4. Frequent concentrated work tackling uncertain and highly complex business problems, translating designs both logical and physical tosupport user friendly processes and systems, and communication of this across business areas.5. Set direction on the introduction and application of specific standards, tools, techniques and methods to meet requirements ensuringconsistency across the community of Technical Analysts is fully aligned to organisational approaches, designs, standards and metrics.6. Provide hands-on leadership of a multidisciplinary scrum team and interdisciplinary team of architects including mentoring, quality assuranceprocesses and standards;7. Full responsibility for multiple systems and services across the organisation, monitoring the development of new and emerging tools,technologies and products to assess potential value and identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, products and services within theorganisation.8. Taking a leading role to identify and share good practices, through leading and directing relevant communities of practice to drive adoption of design standards, trends and patterns. Staff Management9. Responsible and accountable for management of staff, staff development, recruitment, resources, delivery and financial elements, applying a matrix management approach with staff within professional disciplines across multidisciplinary teams;10. Enabling the performance of others, including objectives setting fully aligned to departmental and organisational objectives and goals, andthe development and motivation of staff to achieve them, including implementing and conducting appraisals and 1-1s to manage performance.11. Planning, formulating and organising a broad range of highly complex plans, adjusting the strategic direction and adjusting those plans andthen cascade to the team. Develop the architectural teams resource and training plans and set standards expected in workforce management. Identify and collate training needs and a blended approach to meeting these needs that supports the continual professional development of a highly skilled workforce.12. Receive and act upon, and where possible resolve a range of escalations including staffing, disciplinary, resourcing business and technical, to secure satisfactory outcomes. Where unable to resolve, providing sufficient detail, escalate to the appropriate levels within theorganisations, within agreed policies, procedures and processes to ensure appropriate resolution.13. Undertake recruitment and selection in line with organisational processes and participate in the implementation and delivery of initiatives to secure suitable resources, increase skills levels and develop talent pools to meet the changing needs of the business landscape.14. Seeking, providing and taking feedback to support and encourage teams and individuals to develop thinking and independently work through issues, to reach solutions-based outcomes. Taking full accountability for the approach and decision-making practices within area, including providing positive challenge to ideas and solutions.Knowledge Management15. Frequent individual concentrated work on highly complex and uncertain business problems, leading on the strategic oversight of any new research initiatives, legislation, working practices, policies, procedures, contracts and systems and keeping abreast of technologicaladvances to maintain an excellent understanding of the use of technology in delivering business objectives.16. To continually develop domain knowledge and expertise at the forefront of sector. Investigate research and development to support future business needs and develop an understanding of emerging technologies and business opportunities across a range of topics and engage in the support and development of the organisation, department and team.17. Taking ownership for decision making within own area and where needed developing a solution iteratively as required, in conjunction withagreed procedures.Financial Management18. Budget holder for the architecture team in accordance with NHSBSAs policies, standing orders, financial regulations and legislativerequirements, and the development of business plans including highly sensitive data.19. Develop proposals for future investment including both technology refresh and project- based change; preparing necessary estimates,mandates and business cases within the technology department and providing estimates for such led by other departments.20. Develop and monitor IM&T budgets on major systems and projects.Policy and Service Development21. Full responsibility for policy development and implementation across the Technology team and cascade across the entire organisation. Relationship Management22. Identify and develop partnership working opportunities, and relationships both within the organisation, with its stakeholders, and to liaise with other Government, Non-Government organisations, statutory agencies and public and private sector organisations to develop collaborative approaches which can deliver value to the organisation.23. Participate in the evaluation, benchmarking, specification and procurement of hardware, software and services, ensuring sensitive handling of commercial and financial information, whilst ensuring compliance with Government policy for use of SMEs, Information Security, NHS Confidentiality and Data Protection legislation.Information Management24. Full responsibility for multiple systems and services across the organisation, the approval and implementation of processes to review,analyse, monitor and report on a number of areas including agreed service levels, KPI's and standards within team. Reviewing the performances of teams and projects in delivery of services against defined service levels, checking for trends that may trigger reduced performance and investigating where performance is below the agreed thresholds. Ensure that in managing performance a holistic approach is taken and that consideration is given to people, process, changes in demand and tools.Delivery Management25. Input into workforce planning, ensuring required operational commitments are fully met, business change is estimated, prioritised, anddelivered, resourcing issues are identified, mitigated and managed to deliver business value.26. Leading, managing and engaging teams to deliver multiple strands of work such as continuous improvement, project related work, andoperational tasks, both within the organisation and across external bodies to meet strategic goals and deliver high quality outputs for theorganisation.27. Leading on strategic procurement of hardware and software for various areas of the organisation, including selecting suppliers, accountability for delivery of quality outputs, meeting delivery timescales. Giving full consideration to cost, specification, maintenance and support to ensure the overall needs of the business are met from an ICT perspective, and that they are aligned with the business and ICT strategic directions. In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to: Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as agreed with your line manager and commensurate with your role Demonstrate the business values and behaviors in all aspects of your conduct at work. Ensure and maintain a safe working environment which reflects the business health and safety policies and practices. Be familiar with and adopt policies and practices governing finance, budgets and the procurement of services. Ensure your behavior reflects a commitment to and the benefits of equality and diversity in the workplace Working relationships:Responsible to: Head of Technology GovernanceResponsible for: Architecture TeamKey Connections: Directors Senior Business stakeholders ICT Service Managers Senior ICT Suppliers ICT Intelligent Client Managers and Staff Peer Networks in Architecture, Service Management and Intelligent Client functions