[ref. h32920721] Lead Technical Architect - NHS
NHS Jobs Newcastle upon Tyne
In this role, you are accountable for:
You demonstrate excellent communication skills and can facilitate difficult and complex discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
You pull out issues through agile health checks to provoke the best responses.
You ensure standards are being met.
You assure multiple services across directorates, building consensus between them to deliver consistency.
You contribute and subsequently utilise tools such as standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern technical delivery.
You bring people together to form a motivated team and help create the right environment for a team to work in.
You facilitate the best team make-up, according to the situation.
You provide guidance to the technical community, planning out the future technical landscape via the use of long-term roadmaps and plans.
You look for opportunities to implement new technology or approaches that benefit the wider business.
You can see how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context.
You consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.
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: Team Manager and Head of Profession Responsible for: No line management responsibilities Key relationships and connections: 1.
Technical Architects 2.
Senior Technical Architects 3.
Solution Architects 4.
Enterprise Architects 5.
Delivery Managers 6.
Product Owners 7.
Business Analysts 8.
Developers 9.
Testers 10. Interaction Designers 11.
Service Designers 12.
User Researchers 13.
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- you build relationships with stakeholders and influence expectations.
You demonstrate excellent communication skills and can facilitate difficult and complex discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical
- you identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences.
- Community collaboration
- you work collaboratively within a group, actively networking with others and varying feedback for the appropriate time to ensure the discussion sticks
- both internally and across other government agencies.
You pull out issues through agile health checks to provoke the best responses.
- Experience of working within constraints
- you identify constraints and communicate about these and work within them.
You ensure standards are being met.
- Governance and assurance
- you define and evolve governance within technical architecture.
You assure multiple services across directorates, building consensus between them to deliver consistency.
You contribute and subsequently utilise tools such as standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern technical delivery.
- Leadership and guidance
- you build consensus between people.
You bring people together to form a motivated team and help create the right environment for a team to work in.
You facilitate the best team make-up, according to the situation.
- Mentorship and training you provide mentorship and technical training for other architects, offering advice and peer reviews to ensure the community both grows and remains consistent in approach.
- Making and guiding decisions
- you make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
- Strategy
- you apply strategy by creating, using and proactively challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps that align with vision statements.
You provide guidance to the technical community, planning out the future technical landscape via the use of long-term roadmaps and plans.
- Turning business problems into technical design
- you are responsible for designing information systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
You look for opportunities to implement new technology or approaches that benefit the wider business.
- Understanding the whole context
- you understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work.
You can see how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context.
You consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.
- Value for money you will contribute to the drawing up of financial initiatives across the organisation by proposing technical choices that are value for money are adopted as standard practice.
You will review existing architecture to determine whether opportunities exist to create initiatives to provide financial benefit.
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: Team Manager and Head of Profession Responsible for: No line management responsibilities Key relationships and connections: 1.
Technical Architects 2.
Senior Technical Architects 3.
Solution Architects 4.
Enterprise Architects 5.
Delivery Managers 6.
Product Owners 7.
Business Analysts 8.
Developers 9.
Testers 10. Interaction Designers 11.
Service Designers 12.
User Researchers 13.
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