British Heart Foundation | Enterprise Architect

7 days ago


South East England, United Kingdom British Heart Foundation Full time

Summary of role

Our Technology Vision is to deliver exceptionalcustomer experience, making iteasiertogrow ourincomeand deliver BHF'smission & this role will play an instrumental role in making that happen. We are currently in an exciting stage of our transformation journey, in modernising our Infrastructure and Architectural working principles. As our Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, you will be responsible for shaping our strategic Infrastructure approach in this context and play a key role in ensuring our architectural processes and structures strive for excellence.

Managing a small team of Solution Architects, this role will review, develop and assist with designing and implementing technical solutions for Business as Usual (BAU) and Line of Business (LoB) systems and services, within Cloud and on-premises provisions.

Shaping the delivery of Enterprise-Class, scalable, and secure solutions that are within agreed strategic and organisational objectives, this role will work with vendors and wider stakeholders to ensure the BHF delivers fit for purpose solutions with a focus on infrastructure. In addition, this role will manage the governance of Infrastructure design and implementation across all change initiatives, including programmes, projects and products.

Key responsibilities

Analyse, review and document existing current-state architecture (baseline) into BHFs architecture toolset (Ardoq), identifying opportunities to consolidate and help shape the future vision of the Enterprise Infrastructure

Develops and maintains infrastructure architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and design patterns) for infrastructure capabilities (e.g. Hosting, networking end user computing) that can be used by projects and operations to implement compliant infrastructure capabilities

Evolve the BHFs technology into to a modern Zero Trust Cloud architecture in collaboration with the Information Security Team

Will play a key role in the BHF Security Architecture Review Board (SARB), Design and Governance Authority for end-to-end implementation for Infrastructure systems, application services and solutions

Align with the Technology Strategy and Roadmaps to ensure goals, measurable and critical success factors are delivered accordingly

Act in a consultancy capacity to all Business units, Stakeholders, Project and Programme Managers

Highlight, own and/or escalate potential risks and issues formally in a constructive manner to the appropriate channels

Provide leadership and support to the Technology Directorate Portfolios and the wider BHF organisation to find solutions to achieve better integration between systems. Ensuring solutions are easy to monitor and maintain, cost effective and meet agreed technical standards

Maintain an up-to-date informed knowledge of technical developments within the industry through peer-exchanges, symposiums, events or otherwise

Perform line management duties to guide the effective career journeys of architects within the team, aligned to BHFs values, policies and guidelines.

Person specification

Experience

Experienced in developing and implementing comprehensive technology roadmaps for enterprise-level infrastructure and solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and organisational goals

Proficient in utilising and implementing architecture frameworks and tooling at an enterprise architecture level

Knowledge of design and review processes and operations (eg. Architectural reviews)

Significant experience of designing, developing and supporting complex technology solutions

Strong experience in managing and working with virtual teams and 3rd parties

Experience working with functional and technical specifications and requirements to create solutions designs or enhancements

Experience in providing internal consultancy to support departments, colleagues and projects

Experience working within both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

Strong systems analysis, design, testing and deployment skills and experience

Large website and retail experience

Skills & attributes

Strong analysis and explorative ability working with 3rd parties and vendors.

Ability to work with staff at all levels, including senior management/leadership.

Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, able to liaise and work with non-technical people in a clear manner.

Communication skills translating complex infrastructure-related matters into business terms that are readily understood by colleagues.

Experienced in working with workflow management tools, such as Jira, Confluence & Microsoft DevOps

Full-stack knowledge of Azure and On Prem IT infrastructure

Self-motivated and a self-starter.

Disciplined and precise approach to strategic problem solving.

A strong team manager and player, able to work with the wider team when required.

To care about the BHF, share in its values and objectives and constantly innovate to deliver the best strategic approaches for the BHF and our customers and supporters.

Knowledge, training & qualifications

Degree qualified in a technology, computing or related discipline, or significant relevant industry experience

Subject Matter Expert in core technology e.g.Azure/IaaS, VMWare, Cisco, Networking, Microsoft Entra, M365, InTune, MS Security Suite, Telephony systems etc, both on-prem and Cloud

Knowledge in architecture tooling set (Ardoq desired)

Desirable

TOGAF 9 certification

Azure Cloud Architecture

CISSP Certified Information System Security Professional

Experience of Dynamics365

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