HHRP Solution Architect

Do you have extensive experience operating as a Solution Architect or working with an Enterprise Architecture methodology or framework?

Can you develop creative design solutions and work with a wide range of enterprise tools?

Are you skilled working on large, complex projects in a high performing digital transformation team within healthcare environments?

Bring your technical expertise and your can‑do enthusiasm and attitude into this exciting role as part of the Hinchingbrooke Hospital Redevelopment Programme.

To support the delivery of HHRP, the Solution Architect will work across the programme to provide Digital and Technical leadership to support the successful planning and delivery of the programme. The role will focus on the definition, design and delivery of the solutions that will form part of the 49 Intelligent Hospital Capabilities (IHCs).

Particular focus will be required on ensuring integration of technologies with the Trust's New Hospital Programme, with wider digital developments across the Trust on different sites to the new hospital development at Hinchingbrooke, and integration with system‑level pathways to maximise impact for patients. Bringing logic to the interoperability between our Solution Architecture is a critical part of the role. The role will align more tightly with the IHCs that sit within the 'Footprint' and 'Flow' categories as set out by NHP which are approximately a half to 2/3rds of the 49 IHCs, but may also support the Technical Architect within the 'Fabric' category too.

Reporting into the HHRP Digital Workstream Lead who is a member of NWAFT's digital senior leadership, but working day‑to‑day with multiple technical portfolios and programme work streams, the role is to analyse, plan, design and deliver the assigned strategic technology components and to provide delivery governance for the HHRP.

This role is permanent but secondments from other NHS organisations will be considered.

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.

The Solution Architect will be the Subject Matter Expert and will produce and present policy, designs and recommendations for the target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Solution Architect will contribute to decision making in the evolution of the Future State Architecture at senior levels within the Trust, ICB and New Hospital Programme.

The Post Holder will work with all Stakeholder groups across the various IT, Business and Clinical units both internally and externally to the Trust at all levels of seniority and will have a team reporting to them to deliver the technology for the future Hinchingbrooke Hospital, which will flex and grow over different stages of the new hospital development.

The postholder will also be expected to maintain relationships with appropriate external suppliers and related services, systems, and staff at all levels in other Healthcare and related organisations. As well as this, the post holder will support the Digital Workstream Lead in engaging with and building a strong technical relationship with the multiple teams that sit within the central NHSE New Hospitals Programme.

The postholder will become a key member of the senior technical management within the Digital Workstream and maintain close, day‑to‑day working relationships with the Trust's IT Enterprise Architecture team, the leads of other IT Architectural domains, Business Relationship Managers and other core functions across IT.

• Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate Solution / Enterprise Architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile.

• Substantial Architectural solutions design experience within an organisation (Preferably Healthcare) that uses a structured design methodology.
• Experience working within a complex Acute and / or other Healthcare setting.

• In depth knowledge of Hospital Systems (Both Clinical and non
  - Clinical).
• Knowledge and use of solution Architecture tools and models for evaluation and analysis for specification gathering.

• Committed to the values-based principles of high-quality patient care to include compassion, care, competence, courage communication and commitment in all aspects of service delivery.

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.