Enterprise Architect

NHS Band 8A Salary: £57,528- £64,750 per annum

Hours Per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: 23 months Fixed Term

Play a leading senior technical role in the provision of effective, efficient and fully integrated IT Infrastructure services that maximise their availability and integrity for end-users and optimise the value gained by the Trust from its investment in IT.

Main duties of the job

This will be achieved by:

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification or equivalent in computing or related field.
• Technical accreditation in at least two or more of the following: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE),
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Virtualisation Expert (CVE) or Citrix Certified Architect
• (CCA).
• ITIL Foundation Certificate
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate.

Desirable

• ITIL Practitioner qualification.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and explanatory skills in dealing with a wide range of information technology users from skilled to ICT-illiterate.

Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to present within a group.

Good team-player, highly motivated individual to support the delivery of an efficient, effective customer-focused

support service.

Good presentation and negotiation skills to produce and present formal proposals and get proposals accepted.

Excellent planning and time-management skills.

Good negotiating and relationship-building skills to gain maximum benefit for customers from software suppliers and internal ICT providers.

Able to set clear and appropriate priorities, with the ability to deal with conflicting demands, unpredictable work

patterns, and multiple deadlines.

Good technical knowledge to understand and resolve enterprise technical problems.

Good knowledge of data protection and information security/governance issues.

Good knowledge of providing proactive IT System/Network performance monitoring.

Desirable

• Excellent interpersonal and explanatory skills in dealing with a wide range of information technology users from skilled to ICT-illiterate.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to present within a group.

Good team-player, highly motivated individual to support the delivery of an efficient, effective customer-focused support service.

Good presentation and negotiation skills to produce and present formal proposals and get proposals accepted.

Excellent planning and time-management skills.

Good negotiating and relationship-building skills to gain maximum benefit for customers from software suppliers and internal ICT providers.

Able to set clear and appropriate priorities, with the ability to deal with conflicting demands, unpredictable work

patterns, and multiple deadlines.

Good technical knowledge to understand and resolve enterprise technical problems.

Good knowledge of data protection and information security/governance issues.

Good knowledge of providing proactive IT System/Network performance monitoring.

Experience

Essential

• Advanced theoretical and enterprise knowledge across three or more information technology platforms: Server
• Virtualisation, Desktop Virtualisation, Data & Voice Networking, Messaging, Storage Area Networks, Security, Mobility, Server & Peripheral Hardware.
• Significant experience of IT Service Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change

Management, Performance Management & Availability Management.

Significant experience in leading highly complex technical problems to resolution, including team management and managing external suppliers.

Significant experience in project delivery of technical projects.

Experience in assisting with report writing, being operating procedures, options appraisals, risk analysis, user guides.

About the employer

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.