Job vacancy: Solutions Architect, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

Solutions Architect

Providing technical subject matter and solution expertise for teams across IT in wide range of technologies.
Collaborate to provide solution expertise and direction to Trust services, programmes and projects.
Producing architectural roadmaps, high-level designs, and low-level designs
Collaborating IT leads and subject matter experts to create clear and concise documentation detailing complex technical solutions. With the ability to translate these complex technical solutions back into easy to understand language depending on the audience.
Working closely with the Technical Architect to feed into and influence strategic planning and direction of the technical capabilities at the Trust using the knowledge of business challenges.
Understanding and maintaining the architectural visions and working closely with Technical Architect to help transition from visionary concepts to high-level and low-level designs that will be delivered/developed.
The identification of new and emerging hardware, software and communication technologies and products, services, methods and techniques.
Work with the Cyber, Datacentre, Network and Digital Operations teams to assess the suitability of new/ emerging technologies
Working with the IT teams to present / pilot new / emerging technologies to gain support for their adoption and enable transition to BAU.

Accredited technical skills or equivalent relevant experience with Dell hyper converged compute environment
Accredited technical skills or equivalent relevant experience with Microsoft Windows server operating systems
Accredited technical skills or equivalent relevant experience with Microsoft authentication architecture

Experience of leading a team across multiple work streams, managing conflicting priorities
An excellent understanding of Cyber Security concepts and techniques
Experience working in a project environment (target driven)
Experience of delivering detailed design, documentation and successful implementation of new or changed operational processes through options appraisal techniques.
Experience in hybrid cloud technologies and migration of on prem to Public Cloud services

Good interpersonal skills with excellent written and oral communication skills
Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
Excellent customer service skills; Team working skills; Self-motivated; Ability to move between details and the bigger picture. Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values
Must be able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
Experience of the design, documentation and successful implementation of new or changed enterprise architectures.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.