The primary objective of this post is to support the formulation of future organisation and technology strategy in order to guide the Trust through transformation and optimisation initiatives. This will include helping the organisation achieve targeted outcomes related to growing revenue, optimising costs and mitigating risks. They will focus on building relationships with business and IT stakeholders, communicating the value of Enterprise Architecture and the services it offers, and shaping and guiding the delivery of EA’s services.
The post holder will build and lead the formal EA practice, managing a team of domain architects (business, information, solution, technical, security, other). They will respond to disruptive forces by facilitating the decision-making process and providing actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies to help the organisation drive targeted outcomes. They will work closely with senior Trust leaders to enable and influence their future-state capabilities through the choice of initiatives, whether process-, organisation- or technology-related.
The Head of Enterprise Architecture will help Trust leaders achieve business outcomes through understanding, monetising and operationalising existing, new and emerging technologies. They build and motivate the EA team — empowering domain architects — with coaching and mentoring to build a creative and safe learning environment.
The Head of Enterprise Architecture will be accountable for ensuring:
• Engagement with business and IT stakeholders, creating and building relationships related to harnessing the value of an Enterprise Architecture (EA).
• Communication of the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services.
• Establishment and evolution of the EA team’s services and operating model.
• The alignment between the Digital function and its stakeholders across the Trust, and throughout the IT landscape.
We have four core values which are a focus for how our staff and volunteers work with each other to provide care for our patients. We think of our values as a set of guiding principles to refer to when making decisions and interacting with people and they help us to work together to continuously improve the organisation and ourselves.
Patient and People Focused
Accountability
Respect
Continuous Improvement
Responsible for:
• Developing a value proposition, alongside a communication and education plan for the EA practice. Promotes the business value of EA as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation.
• Leads the development of the EA service portfolio, ensuring they are aligned to the needs of the organisation and EA’s key stakeholders.
• Planning and managing a talent pool of domain architects that work within EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives and outcomes of the Trust.
• Recruiting and developing the critical skills, competencies and career paths for the EA team members through direct management, coaching and mentoring; in particular, building the business and behavioural competencies needed to support delivery of EA’s services.
• Establishing an EA governance framework and ensuring the role of EA in the project and product governance processes is one of guidance, advice and oversight.
• Identifying the Trust’s requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to supportagility and adaptability.
• Leading the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction and architecture.
• Providing perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate, supporting formulation of business strategy.
• Facilitating the alignment of business objectives with Digital strategies through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, translating business strategyinto the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Scanning emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non-technology trends (trendspotting) that affect the organisation.
• Providing practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the Trust’s desired outcomes.
• Tracking and applying innovative technologies, anchoring them in the business and operating model to assess their potential, and uses agile and lean approaches to evolve and manage innovation.
• Leading analysis of the organisation’s future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the Trust toward its targeted outcomes.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jan 2024
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