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Job requirements
Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Recent and relevant technical and solutions design experience within a large organisation using a recognised framework
- Knowledge and Skills
Broad and detailed knowledge of modern design techniques
- Knowledge and Skills
Broad and detailed knowledge of modern technologies
- Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
Educated to degree level in IT related subject or equivalent extensive senior technical management experience within an IT department
- Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Managing Professional level qualified or obtain qualification within 6 months
- Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
TOGAF 9/10 Foundation & Certification or obtain qualification within 12 months
- Qualifications, Accreditations, Education
Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate or obtain within 12 months
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Recent and relevant digital infrastructure and solutions design experience within a large organisation in a Senior role, preferred.
- Experience
Experience of delivering architectural and design services either in a clinical or blue light environment, preferred.
- Personal Abilities
Adhere to the Trust values and behaviours
- Personal Abilities
Strategic Approach (be clear on objectives and clear on expectations)
Job summary
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.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.Working within the Digital & Data Department as a Infrastructure and solutions architecture subject matter expert.Accountable for delivering infrastructure architecture and design services (including developing architectural artefacts, policies, mandates, processes, procedures and reports and supporting the operation of the Architecture Review Board).Delivering these services across the breadth of the Trust (including 999 Operations, Emergency Care, Integrated Urgent Care and Corporate / Trust wide business areas) to enable the Trusts objectives and transformational Digital agenda.
Main duties of the job
Identifying the Trusts current business and infrastructure architectures and developing joined up designs and long-term technology roadmaps for all business areas of the Trust to achieve the digital transformation required to realise the Trusts future vision.
- Conduct design activity so that business requirements are reviewed, interpreted and respond to, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and future digital capabilities.
- Producing designs 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 architectural information to help Digital & Data manage and change the infrastructure environment and the Trust the information uses.
- Monitoring of Architecture services against a recognised Architecture Maturity Model.
- Providing architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to staff and managers in and outside Digital & Data.
About us
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Details
- Date posted: 23 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8b
- Salary: £75,328 to £86,114 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 308-OL-CORP-105
- Job locations: Trust HQ, 220 Waterloo Road, LONDON, Greater London, SE1 8SD, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
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This advert is for Infrastructure Architect with London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 IT engineer role. The advertised salary is £75328.00 to £86114.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 06 Oct 2026.
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