Job vacancy: Enterprise Architect, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Crewe

Job summary

Main area: Admin
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 412-CAP-7350327

Employer: Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Leighton
Town: Crewe
Salary: £76,965 - £88,682 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/08/2025 23:59

Enterprise Architect

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Provide visible and effective leadership, creating a culture of excellence through continuous improvement and learning from experience.

· Carry out analysis at a strategic level and develop business proposals to exploit technology in line with the organisation's mission, objectives and strategy.

· Identify and address highly complex architectural risks across the organisation or wider government.

· Engage with a range of high-level strategic stakeholders (technical and others), providing, receiving and analysing highly complex, sensitive and often contentious technical, administrative, financial and specialist information.

· Present highly complex technical data regarding systems, governance and risks effectively to stakeholders, including at Board level, to facilitate decision-making.

Implement appropriate checks and controls to protect all assets held and managed by the organisation, including lifecycle management.

For more details, see full job description

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Master’s degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience)
Further evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training.
Knowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices

Desirable criteria

FEDIP Leading Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Advanced Professional qualification.
Theoretical and specialist knowledge gained via relevant certification such as: • TOGAF Certification • AWS, GCP or Azure Certification
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS, or other healthcare systems and services, including the political, strategic, and operational environments in which they operate.

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes.
Expert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.
Proficient in the analytical comparison of IT products against specified criteria (including costs) to determine the solution that best meets the business need.
Expert in performing a proof of concept or prototyping exercise to demonstrate or evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technological business change in order to meet a business need.
Proficient in methods and techniques for coaching individuals or groups by a balanced combination of support and direction, which could include use of virtual learning environments plus add-ons to augment feedback specific to work items, workflow or career plans.

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

Analytical thinking skills to acquire a proper understanding of a problem or situation by breaking it down systematically into its component parts and identifying the relationships between these parts. To select the appropriate method/tool to resolve the problem and reflect critically on the result, so that what is learnt is identified and assimilated.
Conceptual thinking skills to acquire understanding and insights regarding the underlying issues in complex problems or situations through the development of abstract representations, the identification of patterns and the analysis of hypotheses.
Organisational awareness skills to understand the hierarchy and culture of own, customer, supplier and partner organisations and to be able to identify the decision makers and influencers.
Leadership skills to clearly articulate goals and objectives, and to motivate and lead others towards their achievement.
Influence, persuasion and personal impact skills to convey a level of confidence and professionalism when engaging with stakeholders, influencing positively and persuading others to take a specific course of action when not in a position of authority.

Key Messages

· Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.

· All correspondence will be sent via the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.

· Selection is based on the Trust's values, and the criteria outlined in the Job Description for the role.

· Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their employees have a “right to work” in the UK. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hold a Sponsor Licence, which means that we MAY be able to sponsor you IF the role meets the UK Government requirements for sponsorship. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship. To be eligible for sponsorship, the role must be in an eligible occupation code and must meet the skill level and the minimum salary threshold. You can find more information on the Government website.

· Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the entry point (bottom) of the pay band.

· Appointments are subject to a 6-month probationary period. LED Doctors are subject to a 3-month probationary period.

· Please provide a contact email address for referees when you submit your application. We will not request any references until after you have been made a formal job offer.

· You will be required to pay for your DBS disclosure (where the post requires one). This will be done via 3 monthly instalments from your pay. We encourage applicants to join and remain registered with the DBS update service.

· We do not reimburse travel to interview expenses.

· Some posts may have implications on existing NHS Pension Scheme arrangements. For further information please visit the NHS Pensions Agency website: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-pensions

· Secondments will be considered for fixed term positions when both parties agree. Candidates should seek approval from their current line manager before application.