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Network Solutions Architect Manager | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £67,950 - £78,028 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2025 |
| Location: | Wallington, SM6 0DX |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7066283/282-OD1246313-B |
Summary
Are you ready to lead cutting-edge networking solutions and shape the future of network infrastructure for a world-renowned Cancer Services Hospital in the UK? Royal Marsden Digital Services is seeking a Network Solutions Architect Manager to take the helm in a role that offers exciting challenges, innovation, and a chance to make a lasting impact on the care our clinical staff provides to patients.
Location: Wallington (travel to Sutton & Chelsea sites as required).
Some of our Key Opportunities:
• Strategic Leadership: You'll provide strategic direction to manage, improve, secure and future-proof our network provisions, ensuring that our clinical staff have the tools and connectivity they need to deliver exceptional care.
• Supplier Relationships: Manage and lead technical compliance for key service reviews with network suppliers, nurturing strong relationships for effective service delivery, ultimately supporting clinical teams.
• Technical Design: As the network technical design authority, you'll drive the creation of secure network solutions that will empower our clinical staff with the latest digital platforms for patient care.
• Problem Resolution: Lead network operational problem management, ensuring the lessons learned from network outages are documented and implemented.
• Collaboration: Work closely with both internal and external technical leads to ensure network solution architecture is effectively implemented and managed
The Network Solutions Architect Manager leads the design, installation, maintenance, and decommissioning of the Trust's network systems and services, overseeing contracted providers of managed LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, and Firewall services.
This role provides strategic direction to ensure reliable, resilient, and secure network service for all end users, future-proofing network provisions in accordance with security best practices.
The post holder serves as the technical authority for all network-dependent projects and changes, ensuring alignment with the Trust Roadmap for clinical and corporate services.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:
General
• The overall serviceability of the Trust Network, supporting RM Digital Operations in managing the contractual relationship with all contracted managed network service and support providers.
• Lead as the network technical design authority across all Network disciplines
• Lead and develop on all aspects of forward network strategy, providing strategic forecasts regarding capacity management of the Trusts network and security infrastructure (5 years +), including the identification and proposal of financial investments required.
• Lead on network major incidents response and operational problems.
• Act as a core member of the Change Advisory Board.
• To be aware of, and adhere to, all Trust Policies & Procedures.
• To negotiate at a senior level and be a major influence in the decision-making processes both locally and strategically.
• Deputise for the Digital Services Solutions Architecture and Design Lead when required.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025
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