Job summary
- Main area
- DDaT
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 891-INT-016WH-A
- Employer
- NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS SCW Office Base (Hybrid)
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Solutions Architect
Band 8b
We want SCW to be a great place to work, where we all feel safe and can be our authentic selves. This means valuing and respecting everyone from all backgrounds and embracing equality, diversity, inclusivity & wellbeing across everything we do. We are committed to listening, learning and improving on our approach to ensure these principles remain at our heart, helping us all to thrive.
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Job overview
SCW is seeking a Solution ArchitectÌý to work on its exciting portfolio of digital projects. Primarily on network, cloud and infrastructure projects and modern workplace projects.
ÌýWorking closely with and supported by the Solutions Architect`s, your function is the delivery of complex new services, both for our internal/external customers and partners. You will be involved in the Azure public cloud space and more widely Modern Workplace projects using Intune on the NHS Shared Tenant. Other areas of specialist projects include enterprise-wide enhancements to: Identity, Security, BYOD, Device Management, Big Data (Trusted Research Environments).
ÌýThis is an interesting, dynamic role where there is a wide scope of work and opportunities to lead change.
Main duties of the job
• Ìý ÌýProvide subject matter expertise in the above domains.
• Ìý ÌýLiaises with stakeholders, communicating highly complex technical concepts and complex issues, clearly and accurately, and adapting communication style to suit the recipient.
• Ìý ÌýProduces written information of a high quality, which clearly sets out architecture designs (HLD, LLD), roadmaps, key issues, options, and outcomes.
• Ìý ÌýThe post holder must be able to communicate effectively, with stakeholders with good reasoning and negotiation skills.
• Ìý ÌýContribute to the technical delivery of a service, ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time within agreed budgets.
• Ìý ÌýWorks cooperatively and productively with others to achieve results within their team.
You will be expected to work independently under the guidance of one of our Senior SME’s, and as such will need to be able to translate basic customer requirements into a design.
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Working for our organisation
You will be working in a close-knit team, currently consisting of 3 Senior Solution Architects and 8 Programme delivery resources.
• Ìý ÌýWork closely with our senior Solution Architects.
• Ìý ÌýThis role can be delivered in a flexible hybrid way with any travel, site visits or meetings arranged by agreement on a very occasional basis.
• Ìý ÌýWe are a geographically dispersed team; we make good use of MS teams to create a virtual team working environment.
• Ìý ÌýSupportive environment.
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• Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Applicants should be aware that you may not be eligible for skilled worker sponsorship if you apply for this post. If you require sponsorship, please ensure you have checked your eligibility via https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job or alternatively, please contact us via email on [email protected] to confirm the requirements of sponsorship can be met.Ìý
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on our specific requirements for this role, please refer to the ÌýJob Description and Person Specification.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Person specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Patient First – Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters’ level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant professional body
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Experience of leading a team across multiple workstreams, managing conflicting priorities.
- Experience of conducting staff performance reviews
- Understanding of commercial awareness and approaches to service delivery organisations
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the public sector
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
Skills & Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders/customers both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales and within financial constraints
- Excellent customer service skills; Team working skills; Self-motivated; Ability to move between details and the bigger picture. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
- Experience of delivering detailed design, documentation and successful implementation of new or changed operational processes through options appraisal techniques.
- Ability to interpret contracts and SLAs to ensure effective delivery within the terms of the agreement
- Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Excellent understanding of infrastructure management, backup methodologies and implementation.
- Experience in hybrid cloud technologies and migration of on prem to Public Cloud services
- Excellent understanding of data centre compute and storage technologies
- Experience in technically architecting an enterprise scale routing and switching infrastructure
- Experience in technically supporting enterprise scale data centre architectures and technologies
- Experience of the design, documentation and successful implementation of new or changed enterprise architectures.
- Evidence of managing large scale 3rd party contracts
- Experience in supporting and implementing public Cloud services (Azure)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of commercial awareness ensuring solutions are commercially viable and deliver to Return on Investment forecasts
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steve Thompson
- Job title
- Head of Enterprise Architecture & Design
- Email address
- [email protected]
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