Head of Enterprise Architecture

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Head of Enterprise Architecture to join a newly-established and growing Enterprise Architect team.

With responsibility for providing technology direction to a range of stakeholders including suppliers, IT stakeholders through strategies, roadmaps, standards, and defined governance and technical design forums As Head of Enterprise Architecture, you will build and lead the formal EA practice, managing a team of domain architects (business, information, solution, technical, security, other). You 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. You 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. You will lead a robust governance process regime for the We are looking for someone who considers themselves to be an excellent team player with a positive attitude. This role will play a critical part in
supporting the Trust on out business transformation journey.

Main duties of the job

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

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.