# Head of Digital Architecture > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-digital-architecture/f69dca30-b255-49b6-988c-3eff44d56a78 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-digital-architecture/f69dca30-b255-49b6-988c-3eff44d56a78.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** London Ambulance Service NHS Trust - **Location:** London Ambulance Service Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Head of service - **Salary:** £88250.00 to £100355.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent: Requirement to be available out of hour through an on-call rota - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:17:39.627Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8252738 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8252738?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The London Ambulance Service (LAS) depends on highly available, reliable, sustainable, cost-effective digital services to support the delivery of urgent and emergency care. To ensure that digital & data services are appropriately evaluated and designed to support LAS in providing an excellent digital experience for our staff and outstanding care for our patients. Working within the Digital & Data Directorate as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). The Head of Architecture is the principal expert specialist and owner of the Digital Architecture Department. Accountable for ensuring that the technology design and roadmaps for digital and data services and standards developed across the Trust, are mapped to and enable the Trust strategy, business needs and long-term plan. Along with ownership of definition and development of Digital Architectural delivery capability resources, processes, standards and tools. The role is critical to the Trust to ensure digital alignment with Trust strategic goals, standardisation of products and services, governance and compliance with architecture processes and principles. Please note: We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications. ### Main duties of the job To be the principal specialist and owner of the Digital Architecture Department, accountable for: - Providing appropriate leadership and governance of Digital Architecture services, policies, mandates, processes, procedures and reports and the operation of the Architecture Review Board. - Identifying the Trust’s current business and technology architectures and developing joined up target architectures and long-term technology roadmaps for all business areas of the Trust to achieve the digital transformation required to realise the Trust’s future vision. - The design of information, software and infrastructure systems and services across all LAS functions using standardised principles so that they support the roadmaps and are appropriately available, resilient and secure. - Collating and providing structured design and architectural information to help manage and change the digital environment and information the Trust uses. - Ensure business requirements are reviewed, interpreted and respond to, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and future digital capabilities. - The improvement and monitoring of Architecture services against a recognised Architecture Maturity Model and Standards. - Providing architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to staff and managers in and outside Digital & Data. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Applicants are advised to read all the information enclosed in the advert job description role specification before completing an application. ### Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of frameworks and standards for solution architecture such as IEEE 1016-2009 - Creating a clear vision and supporting the translation of business intelligence into operational plans - Able to work across professional and organisational boundaries with highly developed negotiation and influencing skills ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive specialist experience of technology design and roadmaps - Demonstrable recent and relevant Senior Management level experience within a large organisation in a Senior Enterprise or Technical Architect role. ### Qualifications, Accreditations, Education **Essential** - Educated to Master’s degree level in IT related subject or equivalent extensive senior technical management experience within an IT department - Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation level qualified - TOGAF: Foundation 9.2 or 10 ## Documents - [using artificial intelligence (ai) (pdf, 378.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2945) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 299.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10565439) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.