Infrastructure ArchitectNHS

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.

Job description

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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.