Chief Digital Architect

Description:

Digital Health & Care Wales

Chief Digital Architect

Tenure: Permanent

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.

DHCW offers opportunities for career growth and professional development. We will work with you and help you develop your career. We offer opportunities to pursue further academic qualifications, up to PhD level. Our benefits include:

* Automatic membership of the NHS pension scheme

* 28 days paid leave plus bank holidays

* Blue Light Card membership – access to NHS discounts including high street, gyms, restaurants, insurance, cars, holidays etc.

* Flexible working, including options to work from home

* Employee Assistance Programme – confidential information and counselling support service available 24/7

* Cycle 2 Work scheme

* Car lease and home electronics salary sacrifice schemes

About the Role: The Operations Directorate is responsible for all operational service delivery for DHCW in response to NHS Wales strategy and standards as set by Welsh Government and the NHS Wales Chief Digital Officer (CDO), and for implementing and delivering an ambitious and transformative digital strategy for the organisation.

The Chief Digital Architect is an important senior leadership and specialist advisory role in DHCW and across NHS Wales, which has ownership of overall national digital and technology architecture. You will lead the design, development and implementation of a modern cloud-native architecture that will enable and support our mission and strategy.

This will be achieved through collaborative leadership, working with senior stakeholders within DHCW and across NHS Wales. It will require coordination across the range of digital and technology architecture domains, and close collaboration with the Data Architecture function.

Within DHCW you will directly lead and manage the cross-functional digital and technology architecture practice. You will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the Operations Directorate, which is around 500 people, and you will make a strong corporate contribution across DHCW, which is around 1200 people.

You will provide expert professional advice on data to the DHCW Executive team and Board. You will be a strong, inspirational, strategic leader,

engaging with peers and senior stakeholders at Executive Director, Chief Executive, and Board level across NHS Wales. You will represent Wales internationally and across the UK.

As the Chief Digital Architect you will:

* network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.

* proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.

* Lead the Digital and Technology Architecture practice, supporting multiple teams, finding, and using best practice and emerging technologies.

* inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.

* be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture design.

* Creating, developing, and maintaining architecture strategy, objectives, budget and risk appetite.

* Managing and developing the resources and capabilities of the function, ensuring the team has the skills and capabilities to meet business objectives and determining the appropriate balance of internal and external resources.

The Chief Digital Architect will have a strategic role within the organisation and will deputise for Directors, including deputising at Executive level meetings both externally and internally.

To lead implementation of technical requirements in all their dimensions and achievement of the objectives of the business case and technical plan.

To lead on the development of the technical plan planning, ensuring that the plans are delivered within agreed funding.

Using advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information on technical matters to include:

* Organisational architecture

* Business architecture

* Information architecture

* Applications architecture

* Technological architecture.

The architecture domains that this post will have responsibility for are:

* Digital Workplace

* Digital Products and Software Engineering

* Open Architecture and Integration

* Security and Identity

* Cloud and Infrastructure

Interviews to be held on Monday 29 April on Teams and Tuesday 30 April at Ty Glan Yr Afon, Cardiff