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Job overview
The Enterprise Architect provides senior specialist leadership, enterprise design authority and architectural governance across digital, data and technology domains within the Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative.
The postholder is responsible for developing, maintaining and assuring the Collaborative’s Enterprise Architecture framework, ensuring that digital and technology investments align with organisational strategy, ICS priorities and national NHS standards.
The role ensures that applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud architectures form a coherent, sustainable and standards-based enterprise landscape that supports safe and effective patient care, operational efficiency and productivity, regulatory compliance and cyber resilience, financial sustainability and progressive digital maturity.
The role exercises significant professional autonomy within agreed corporate and digital strategy frameworks and provides authoritative specialist advice to senior digital leaders, programme boards and executive committees.
The postholder does not hold executive or budgetary ownership of the overall digital portfolio but provides architectural assurance and specialist judgement to inform senior decision-making.
Main duties of the job
Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture strategy and associated architectural principles in alignment with corporate and digital strategies set by executive leadership.
Translate organisational objectives into architectural roadmaps across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud domains.
Support cross-Trust architectural convergence and standardisation initiatives.
Act as senior design authority for enterprise-level architectural alignment.
Review and ensure high-value or high-risk solution designs comply with enterprise standards.
Chair or support Architecture Review Boards within agreed governance frameworks.
Provide architectural assurance and technical due diligence for multi-million-pound digital investment proposals.
Present complex architectural options, trade-offs and risk exposure to Executive Directors, Digital Governance Committees and Programme Boards.
Translate highly technical enterprise architecture concepts into accessible language for non-technical audiences.
Provide professional leadership to Solution Architects and Domain Architects.
Ensure enterprise architecture is embedded within programme lifecycle governance.
Provide architectural oversight during major programme milestones.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture strategy and associated architectural principles in alignment with corporate and digital strategies set by executive leadership.
- Translate organisational objectives into architectural roadmaps across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud domains.
- Support cross-Trust architectural convergence and standardisation initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, technical debt and complexity across systems.
- Contribute specialist architectural expertise to long-term digital planning and transformation programmes.Act as senior design authority for enterprise-level architectural alignment.
- Review and ensure high-value or high-risk solution designs comply with enterprise standards.
- Chair or support Architecture Review Boards within agreed governance frameworks.
- Maintain enterprise architecture artefacts, including current state models, target state architectures and transition roadmaps.
- Ensure compliance with NHS interoperability standards, the NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit, the UK GDPR, Clinical Safety Standards, and National Cyber Security Centre guidance.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Highly specialised and authoritative knowledge across application, integration, infrastructure, security and data architecture domains, with the ability to synthesise these into cohesive enterprise solutions
- Deep understanding of NHS interoperability standards and frameworks, including practical application of FHIR, HL7, APIs and integration design patterns within clinical ecosystems
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior-level experience in enterprise architecture, enterprise design authority or senior technical leadership roles within large, complex, multi-site organisations, ideally within the NHS or similarly regulated public sector environments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master’s degree level (or equivalent depth of knowledge gained through substantial senior experience) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Digital Architecture, Engineering, Health Informatics or a related discipline, demonstrating highly specialised architectural expertise across multiple enterprise technology domains.
- Formal Enterprise Architecture and/or Solution Architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate, BCS Enterprise & Solution Architecture, or equivalent recognised framework), with demonstrable application within large-scale, regulated environments.
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to NHS values, public accountability and the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate digital services that directly support patient care and clinical outcomes.
- Acts as a visible role model for the Collaborative’s values: QEHKL – Living our values, NNUH – PRIDE, JPUH – CARER
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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This advert is for Enterprise Architect with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £79,504 - £91,609 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Aug 2026.
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