Senior Technical Architect (Applications & Data)

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YOU MAKE US MORE

Join Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At Moorfields, people's sight matters-and so do the people who make it possible.

For over 200 years, Moorfields has been at the forefront of ophthalmic care, research, and education. With more than 2,300 dedicated team members and over 700,000 patients seen annually across our City Road site and 22 networked sites, we are proud to be a global centre of excellence.

We're also a vibrant community where kindness, equity and excellence shape every aspect of our work. Whether it's pioneering research through our partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre or training the next generation of global eye care leaders, we're united by one mission-delivering world-class eye health, sustainably and at scale.

And we're just getting started.

From 2027, we'll move to our brand-new Oriel site in St Pancras, Camden-a state-of-the-art centre that will unite eye care, research, and education under one roof. This groundbreaking facility, developed in partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity, will enable transformative innovation and collaboration like never before.

Could you be part of this future? Make us more.

Job overview

MY JOB MAKES LIVES BETTER BY...

Joining up systems and data to empower patients, service users and staff to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. I also keep at the forefront of digital technology initiatives, ensuring that our digital solutions put people at the heart of all that we do. I am a senior technologist in the organisation who sponsors initiatives to improve patient safety, free up staff time, and improve the efficiency of technology in the trust.

Main duties of the job

THE POST

We are at a pivotal stage of our digital journey and have an ambitious portfolio of digital technology initiatives ahead of us, all grounded around - empowering patients and service users; improving the experience navigating the healthcare system and joining up systems and data across to better meet the needs of citizens.

This role is part of our Enterprise Architecture team, responsible for:
• The vision, strategy and roadmaps from our technology and data perspective, including prioritisation of change - to enable delivery at pace
• Establishing architectural principles, designs and standards
• Guiding the organisation to make the appropriate business, technology and data decisions
• Consult and support collaboration across the business
• Horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation

A technical architect provides technical leadership and architectural design. You may have a generic or specialist technical design or generic solution architecture experience, that covers multiple domain areas.

Working for our organisation

What's in it for You?

At Moorfields, we invest in you-your growth, your wellbeing, your future.
You'll join a flexible, supportive organisation offering:
• Competitive salary (including high-cost area supplement)
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• 24/7 independent counselling support
• Career-long learning and development opportunities
• Excellent transport connections
• Access to NHS and Blue Light discount schemes
• Free Pilates classes
• Full support and training to develop your skills

And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please view our Moorfields benefits leaflet.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will put people at the heart of everything you do - with a relentless focus on user experience and ensuring all our user needs are met across sites at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

With the ever-increasing need and interest in the use of digital technology in healthcare, you will be part of a team of Digital, Data and Technology experts that delivers service improvements and keeps at the forefront of new technology.

Your role will focus on implementing the trust's technology strategy rather than maintaining the existing operations. Whilst the technical architect is expected to be a highly technical individual with a strong background in designing and implementing technology, the role is distinct from a Lead Engineer as it has additional responsibilities for solution design and technical assurance of proposals from vendors. The team does not design solutions in isolation, as such the postholder will be expected and encouraged to maintain their practical technical skills but shift the focus of their hands-on work towards implementing proofs-of-concept, validating designs and proposals, and implementing new solutions rather than maintaining and supporting the existing solutions.

This role will focus on Applications, Data, and Integration Architecture - designing the workflows and connectivity between our systems, ensuring that our data is well-structured and highly available, and ensuring that our applications are maintainable and fulfil the organisation's requirements. The postholder will be constantly working in partnership with architectural colleagues, vendors, programme teams, other clinical, technical, and operational colleagues to ensure that their vision and designs are successfully implemented.

The majority of this role will focus on the key components of our EPR solution, including imaging systems, clinical noting systems, and patient administration systems. It will also spend some time on corporate systems, business intelligence, and smart buildings and estates. Direct experience with these areas is not essential, as long as the postholder is willing and able to learn.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES FOR THIS ROLE

A senior technical architect works on large or multiple pieces of work that are complex or risky.

At this role level, you will:
• define strategy and be central to assuring services
• design solutions and services to solve ambiguous problems, aligned to the trust's architecture standards and business requirements
• regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge
• validate and assure solution designs, either built internally or commissioned externally
• be proactive in identifying problems and translating these into non-technical descriptions that can be widely understood
• mentor and coach colleagues

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• 2x A-levels or equivalent qualifications in literate and numerate subjects
• Master's degree, or equivalent experience
• Relevant management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience to masters level
• Service management qualification or equivalent experience (example: ITIL)

Desirable criteria

• Delivery management qualification or equivalent experience (Agile, PRINCE2, etc)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in multiple user/customer-centric teams and delivering on continuous service improvement initiatives
• Experience of designing, deploying and running medium-high complexity technology services

Desirable criteria

• Experience of management products / services in healthcare (NHS)

Due to the nature of this position, employment is subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK, completion of a satisfactory DBS disclosure and two references. We do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts, so please consider this before applying.

Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our organisational culture. As part of our pledge to take positive action in recruitment we encourage applications from under-represented candidates including BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) and Disabled candidates as we work towards a representative workforce that is able to provide the quality, the dignity and respect and to deliver above and beyond.

Moorfields is a flexible working friendly organisation, and we are committed to helping our employees achieve a work-life balance that is beneficial for health and wellbeing, motivation levels and job satisfaction. Every employee of the Trust has the right to request to work flexibly. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

If we receive sufficient applications, we will close this ad prior to the closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying or would like an accessible version of any recruitment documents, please contact the recruitment team at moorfields.recruitment@nhs.net.

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 512.6KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 865.7KB)
• MEH Privacy Notice (PDF, 138.0KB)