We have an exciting opportunity to join our IT Team as a Solutions Architect, becoming the source of technology and data technical expertise. Working collaboratively with all IT Teams, you will transform business requirements and challenges into workable technical solutions
As the Solutions Architect, you will be key to the strategic change programme, designing highly complex technical solutions both for the Trust and the wider NWL Acute Provider Collaborative. The post holder will identify current business processes, facilitate discussions, advise stakeholders, support operational colleagues and document new solutions end to end in support of Chelsea and Westminster NHS delivering its services.
The post is based at Harbour Yard in Chelsea, next to the River Thames, working from a modern and spacious office complex with an on-site café and parking, with excellent transport links., With a very strong technical background across hyper converged technologies, cloud platforms, networking and Microsoft based software technologies, you will provide technical subject matter and solution expertise for teams across IT.
Producing architectural roadmaps, high-level designs, and low-level designs, you will bring working groups together which will consist of both technical and non-technical parties to transform business requirements and challenges into workable technical solutions.
The Solution Architect will report to the Technical Architect and help transition from visionary concepts to high-level and low-level designs that will be delivered and developed and contribute to the strategic Technology and Product roadmaps for Chelsea and Westminster NHS., + Providing technical subject matter and solution expertise for teams across IT in wide range of technologies.
+ Collaborate to provide solution expertise and direction to Trust services, programmes and projects.
+ Producing architectural roadmaps, high-level designs, and low-level designs
+ Collaborating IT leads and subject matter experts to create clear and concise documentation detailing complex technical solutions. With the ability to translate these complex technical solutions back into easy to understand language depending on the audience.
+ Working closely with the Technical Architect to feed into and influence strategic planning and direction of the technical capabilities at the Trust using the knowledge of business challenges.
+ Understanding and maintaining the architectural visions and working closely with Technical Architect to help transition from visionary concepts to high-level and low-level designs that will be delivered/developed.
+ The identification of new and emerging hardware, software and communication technologies and products, services, methods and techniques.
+ Work with the Cyber, Datacentre, Network and Digital Operations teams to assess the suitability of new/ emerging technologies
+ Working with the IT teams to present / pilot new / emerging technologies to gain support for their adoption and enable transition to BAU.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites-Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital-along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children's services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.

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+ Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.