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 addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to: 1. Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager.
2. Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work. 3. Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted.
4. Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion. 5. Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.
Working relationships Responsible to:
Enterprise Architect Key relationships and connections: 1. Direct reports 2. Team members 3. Service delivery teams 4.
Business stakeholders 5. Service Managers 6. Suppliers 7. Peer Networks
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