Digital Innovations Solutions Architect (Applications and Data) inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED
WED 23 OCT 2024
The role offers flexible working hours and opportunities for career progression and development, including ongoing training aligned with BCS membership. Candidates should possess extensive technical knowledge in the healthcare domain, robust documentation skills, and the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical audiences. The role also involves maintaining strong communication and networking within the healthcare industry to drive innovation and ensure compliance with cyber security standards.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Solutions Architect (Applications and Data) within the Solutions Architecture team of Digital Services. This role is pivotal in delivering new technologies and solutions into the trust, utilising the latest developments in Microsoft's Azure Data Architecture and tooling. A key understanding of enterprise-level architecture is essential. The team needs highly skilled members who think outside the box and look beyond the current technology boundaries. The solutions and architectures designed by this role and the team are foundational to providing care in a digitally enabled world.
As the trust evolves and delivers its digital strategy, this role will translate technology capabilities into strategic outcomes. At its core, the role requires an understanding of good practice and a passion for excellent customer service. A proactive worker who thinks outside the box to maintain or reinstate service for customers, driving efficiency.
Career progression pathways and development opportunities are available. We support staff in their career aspirations with pathways to develop skills and experience for progression into other roles across different specialties. Ongoing training and development are offered in conjunction with BCS membership.
Please note that this advert will close once 75 applications have been received.
This role requires a passion for technology and be able to translate and build clinical requirements to innovative solutions, pushing the boundaries of the possible. Having an ability to understand clinical demands and systems is beneficial. As the trust moves and shapes its estate strategy this role will be pivotal in laying out requirements and being able to evangelise to clinical staff the art of the possible for digital innovation of new wards and premises. Offering a "can do", proactive approach to service delivery, ultimately delivering for the service needs upholding the trusts values.
The role will require a proactive approach to working relationships and could entail working with any vested partner of South London and Maudsley NHS trust.
The Solutions Architecture team falls within the Digital Service umbrella, which follows the ITIL standard of Service Management. This is critical for empowering technology and process to ensure the customers have the best possible end result. You will be working in the Solutions Architecture section having a real drive to innovate to drive improving, maintaining and documenting new services.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from8am to 6pm giving you the very best of good work life balance.
About us
Key Responsibilities:
- Extensive technical breadth of knowledge through experience in the healthcare industry
- Ability to create and deliver specific documentation around requirements and solutions
- Be able to work with clinical frontline staff to gather requirements and translate to scope of works or tender documentation as required
- Be able to network and drive innovation through steering groups and bodies
- Tenacious attitude to work with industry to deliver innovation into the trust
- Ability to work within the Solutions team and assist in the creation of the Enterprise Architecture model, comprising Process, Roles, Applications, Technology and associated Governance
- Creation of solutions for delivery into service in the trust
- Strong attention to detail and proven team player, with good communication and workshop facilitation skills, able to interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Work with the other trust programmes for successful deliver of new innovations
- Ability to work proactively in an indirect supervision environment
- The ability to network with commercial partners and other healthcare entities
- Other activity from time to time as required to support Digital Services
- Abide to the department and trusts policies and procedures
- Have an understanding of the importance of Cyber Security.
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