Enterprise Architect

Job summary

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital health and care in England? NHS England is seeking Enterprise Architects to support one of the most ambitious digital transformation programmes.

You'll play a key role in developing the models, standards and architectural approaches that underpin the NHS 10-Year Plan, ensuring systems and services work together to improve outcomes for the public patients and staff.

As an Enterprise Architect, you'll work across programmes, teams and organisations to bring clarity to complexity, helping define how business, data, digital and service capabilities evolve nationally. You'll collaborate with architects across the health and care system, contribute to the development of our enterprise architecture practice, and support the creation of a modern, interoperable technology landscape.

If you're a sharp critical thinker with strong analytical skills, a collaborative approach and a genuine commitment to public service, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact at national scale.

A traditional Enterprise Architecture background isn't essential. If you demonstrate strong critical thinking, emotional intelligence and experience in fields such as business analysis, service design, management or operational improvement, we would welcome a conversation.

Main duties of the job

Support the development and governance of enterprise architecture across business, digital and data domains.

Develop models, viewpoints and capability assessments to guide strategic planning and programme delivery.

Maintain the EA Knowledge Library and Common Architecture Portal, ensuring accuracy and relevance.

Provide architectural expertise to programmes, including defining solution building blocks and supporting business process improvements.

Engage with architects across the NHS to co-create frameworks, share best practice and promote interoperability. Analyse complex problems and work with multidisciplinary teams to design effective, user-centred solutions.

Support organisational compliance with architecture frameworks, standards and policies.

What's in it for you

A role at the centre of national digital transformation.

Opportunities to shape architectural approaches used across the NHS.

Flexible hybrid working (40% in-person expectation) from any NHS England office.

Access to professional development, including architecture and leadership training.

A collaborative, inclusive culture where your expertise makes a real difference.

About us

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.