Enterprise Architect

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job summary

• Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.
• Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
• Ensure that approved budgets are spent effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures.
• Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
• Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
• Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trusts stated objectives & aims
• Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.
• Undertake proactive horizon scanning for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues
• Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.
• Dissemination of knowledge through engagement in report writing, and reviewing, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.
• Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders.
• Develop structures, systems, ways of working and personal values that will support the Trusts sustainable development objectives with regard to issues such as Carbon reduction and waste minimisation; and to encourage all stakeholders of the Trust to act as enthusiastic agents of change.

Specific Core Functions

• Provide guidance, coaching and collaborative working with Technical Architects to provide consensus based enterprise solutions that are scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs.
• Leading role in regular discussions regarding internal process and system improvements in order to ensure maximum efficiency across the organisation and enterprise architecture. Including suggesting varying complexities of technical solutions to ongoing and potential problems.
• Alignment of IT strategy and planning with Trusts business goals by leading planning sessions with Trust business decision makers.
• Lead on multi-vendor architecture strategies and major incident resolution situations. Acting as subject matter expert of multiple enterprise technologies ensuring the Trust benefits from IT solutions.
• Form part of the IT departments Design Authority and contribute to the long-term strategy for the Trusts IT core architecture.
• Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and maximise the benefits from server and storage virtualised technologies. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Direct or indirect involvement in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Act as a champion of knowledge and skills in specific areas of technologies, sharing these skills and knowledge with colleagues within the department. Develop staff so they have the ability to better understand how the IT components interact with each other.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent in computing or related field.
• Technical accreditation in at least two or more of the following: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE),
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Virtualisation Expert (CVE) or Citrix Certified Architect
• (CCA).
• ITIL Foundation Certificate
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate.

• ITIL Practitioner qualification.

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal and explanatory skills in dealing with a wide range of information technology users from skilled to ICT-illiterate.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to present within a group.
• Good team-player, highly motivated individual to support the delivery of an efficient, effective customer-focused
• support service.
• Good presentation and negotiation skills to produce and present formal proposals and get proposals accepted.
• Excellent planning and time-management skills.
• Good negotiating and relationship-building skills to gain maximum benefit for customers from software suppliers and internal ICT providers.
• Able to set clear and appropriate priorities, with the ability to deal with conflicting demands, unpredictable work
• patterns, and multiple deadlines.
• Good technical knowledge to understand and resolve enterprise technical problems.
• Good knowledge of data protection and information security/governance issues.
• Good knowledge of providing proactive IT System/Network performance monitoring.

• Excellent interpersonal and explanatory skills in dealing with a wide range of information technology users from skilled to ICT-illiterate.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to present within a group.
• Good team-player, highly motivated individual to support the delivery of an efficient, effective customer-focused support service.
• Good presentation and negotiation skills to produce and present formal proposals and get proposals accepted.
• Excellent planning and time-management skills.
• Good negotiating and relationship-building skills to gain maximum benefit for customers from software suppliers and internal ICT providers.
• Able to set clear and appropriate priorities, with the ability to deal with conflicting demands, unpredictable work
• patterns, and multiple deadlines.
• Good technical knowledge to understand and resolve enterprise technical problems.
• Good knowledge of data protection and information security/governance issues.
• Good knowledge of providing proactive IT System/Network performance monitoring.

Experience

• Advanced theoretical and enterprise knowledge across three or more information technology platforms: Server
• Virtualisation, Desktop Virtualisation, Data & Voice Networking, Messaging, Storage Area Networks, Security, Mobility, Server & Peripheral Hardware.
• Significant experience of IT Service Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change
• Management, Performance Management & Availability Management.
• Significant experience in leading highly complex technical problems to resolution, including team management and managing external suppliers.
• Significant experience in project delivery of technical projects.
• Experience in assisting with report writing, being operating procedures, options appraisals, risk analysis, user guides.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Address

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub

Building 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road

Cosham

PO6 3EN

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/