Architecture Analyst

Job summary

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As an Architecture Analyst, you'll work at the heart of strategic technology planning, helping to maintain and improve the tools, data and governance processes that support decision-making across the organisation. You'll collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, analyse complex information, develop insightful reporting and visualisations, and contribute to the continuous improvement of architecture services and standards.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving problems, working with data, influencing stakeholders and finding innovative ways to improve processes. You'll have the opportunity to develop specialist expertise, support major digital initiatives and help shape the future direction of technology within a nationally important organisation.

If you're looking for a role where you can combine analytical thinking, collaboration and continuous improvement whilst making a meaningful contribution to NHSBT's mission of saving and improving lives, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The Architecture Analyst will play a pivotal role in NHSBTs Enterprise Architecture function by owning, administering and developing the organisations Enterprise Architecture information systems and tooling. The role is responsible for ensuring the architecture repository operates as a trusted, organisation-wide technology system that underpins architecture governance, strategic decision-making and technology risk management, as well as producing governance reports and visualisations.

The post holder ensures NHSBT maintains a high-quality, accurate and current view of its technology landscape, through the design configuration and continuous improvement of architecture systems, data structures and reporting frameworks.

The post holder operates with a high degree of professional autonomy, acting as the organisations specialist authority for architecture information systems and governance, and determines how corporate policies and standards are translated into operational practice across NHSBT.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.