Enterprise Architect

Job summary

NHS Band 8A Salary: £57,528- £64,750 per annum

Hours Per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: 23 months Fixed Term

Play a leading senior technical role in the provision of effective, efficient and fully integrated IT Infrastructure services that maximise their availability and integrity for end-users and optimise the value gained by the Trust from its investment in IT.

Main duties of the job

This will be achieved by:

• Designing multiple architectural models with varying complexities ensuring business strategy and processes are considered in translation to IT solutions.
• Ability to operate across organisation and computer technology silos to drive common approaches across the Trust enterprise architecture.
• Acting as champion for the departments ITIL processes, providing professional guidance in and execution of Change, Release, Problem, Performance, and Availability Management.
• Provide leadership in enterprise architecture technologies when working with external vendors, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Provide leadership in application performance monitoring, detection of potential performance changes and overseeing action plans in ensuring users quality of experience.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Details

• Date posted: 03 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,525 to £64,750 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 23 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: REF2282X
• Job locations: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub, Building 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham, PO6 3EN, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job summary

• Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.
• Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
• Ensure that approved budgets are spent effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures.
• Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
• Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
• Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trusts stated objectives & aims
• Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.
• Undertake proactive horizon scanning for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues
• Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.
• Dissemination of knowledge through engagement in report writing, and reviewing, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.
• Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders.
• Develop structures, systems, ways of working and personal values that will support the Trusts sustainable development objectives with regard to issues such as Carbon reduction and waste minimisation; and to encourage all stakeholders of the Trust to act as enthusiastic agents of change.

Specific Core Functions

• Provide guidance, coaching and collaborative working with Technical Architects to provide consensus based enterprise solutions that are scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs.
• Leading role in regular discussions regarding internal process and system improvements in order to ensure maximum efficiency across the organisation and enterprise architecture. Including suggesting varying complexities of technical solutions to ongoing and potential problems.
• Alignment of IT strategy and planning with Trusts business goals by leading planning sessions with Trust business decision makers.
• Lead on multi-vendor architecture strategies and major incident resolution situations. Acting as subject matter expert of multiple enterprise technologies ensuring the Trust benefits from IT solutions.
• Form part of the IT departments Design Authority and contribute to the long-term strategy for the Trusts IT core architecture.
• Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and maximise the benefits from server and storage virtualised technologies. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Direct or indirect involvement in the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information Technology within the enterprise.
• Act as a champion of knowledge and skills in specific areas of technologies, sharing these skills and knowledge with colleagues within the department. Develop staff so they have the ability to better understand how the IT components interact with each other.

For full job details please refer to enclosed job description.