Business Architect

1 day ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

As part of a newly formed Enterprise Architecture function, we're seeking a dynamic and strategic Business Architect to join our Digital Services team to lead the way in creating scalable and future-proof solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape Business Architecture and the Enterprise Architecture for a large NHS trust.

You will play a pivotal role in aligning business strategies with digital solutions. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders to design, develop, and implement architecture that supports our digital transformation initiatives, ensuring that our services are innovative, efficient, and aligned with our strategic objectives.

Join us in shaping the future of digital services at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment: Work closely with senior leadership to ensure digital strategies align with business goals and objectives. Architecture Development: Design and develop comprehensive business architectures that support digital initiatives and enhance operational efficiency. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, understand challenges, and provide architectural guidance. Business Analysis Management: the day-to-day leadership, management and guidance of a team of Business Analysts by improving ways of working and maturing the function. Capabilities: Take ownership for understanding our as-is enterprise capabilities and helping to define our to-be capabilities as well as value streams and Patient / User journeys. Innovation: Drive innovation by exploring and implementing emerging technologies that enhance digital services. Governance: Establish and maintain architectural standards and principles to ensure consistency and alignment across projects. Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain architectural roadmaps to guide the organisation through its digital journey.

Skills and Qualifications:

Proven experience in business architecture, preferably within a digital services environment. Technical Proficiency : Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (, TOGAF) and digital technologies. Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse complex business problems and develop strategic solutions. Communication: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire stakeholders at all levels. Innovation Mindset: Keen interest in emerging technologies and their application in digital services. Leadership: Demonstrable leadership skills with a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Certification: Relevant certifications in business architecture or related fields are a plus.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care , appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

IIBA, Business Architecture Guild membership

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent or ability to demonstrate equivalent Relevant foundation level business analysis qualification , Agile Business Analysis Foundation or BCS Foundation Evidence of continual professional development

Desirable

Foundation Qualification in Change Management Foundation Qualification in Project Management ITIL Foundation Qualification

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

Extensive experience working as a Senior Business Analyst or Business Architect, preferably in a Healthcare setting. Proven experience of contributing to and developing Business / Enterprise Architecture principles. Comprehensive systems thinking and analysis skills gained in an healthcare or similar environment Proven IT Business or Enterprise Architecture skills working on multiple or concurrent initiatives Leadership / senior experience of managing complex organisational change and the transformation of business processes.

Desirable

Experienced manager, leader coach, and mentor in the business analysis field Good knowledge of patient management systems, NHS working practice and National NHS developments Knowledge or process automation tools, RPA, process mining and hyper-automation approaches.

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