Business Architect | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - Salford

The value brought by the Business Architect is significant, as it is a role that will evolve alongside the emergent digital needs of the NCA. As such, the Business Architect will need to be adaptable, knowledgeable, and efficient to successfully carry out the strategy and manage deliverables using modern EA approaches.

The roles' aim is to lead the architecture of a process-oriented organisation or re-architecting aspects of existing processes.

The Business Architect will assume a leadership role in two ways. Firstly, the development of holistic, multi-dimensional business architectures to achieve goals, and secondly, the day-to-day leadership, management, guidance and maturation of a team of Business Analysts to ensure traceability between business architecture products and associated business processes / requirements to be delivered as operational solutions.

Determine and define strategic level requirements that address organisational, people, processes, information and technology problems, ensuring systems and processes are fit for purpose and ensuring they are robust.

Undertake business architecture design work using best practice tools and techniques to define capabilities and processes, using prototyping (where appropriate) to elaborate requirements and demonstrate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technology to meet a business need.

Define objective-level requirements for the selection of solutions.

Act as a strategic advocate for the business, ensuring that digital provision meets the strategic objectives of the organisation and satisfies requirements.

Provide expert opinion to IT forums in relation to Digital Demand items and Projects applying expertise to articulate requests, drivers, and potential solutions.

Analyse and articulate complex business and digital problems clearly – identifying the maturity and key objectives of each capability / process and alignment to existing digital capabilities.

Work with Senior stakeholders across the organisation to understand current state problems and future strategies, goals and objectives.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Thursday 28 Nov 2024