Technical Architect
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | G9914-25-0201 |
Summary
In this role, you are accountable for 1. Collaboratively define as-is and to-be architectures to develop full technical solutions designs including preparation of technical artefacts, and blueprints; providing a high quality of cost estimation for submission into internal and external business cases and assessments. 2. Undertake and lead on investigative analysis within multidisciplinary teams, providing technical authority, making credible and practical technical decisions, communicating these with sensitivity and diplomacy to ensure the right technical direction is followed. 3. Facilitate scoping and priority setting of large or complex changes, to enable the delivery to team to provides robust options appraisals and recommendations; harmonising across infrastructures and technologies wherever possible and selecting the most appropriate means to communicate information. 4. Proactively devising and managing initiatives to deliver capacity, performance and system availability improvements to meet or exceed targets. 5. Translating designs both logical and physical to support user friendly processes and systems, and communication of this across a variety of stakeholders including, business areas, projects or programme teams.6. Sets technical standards, tools, techniques and methods and advises and influences others to adopt these to ensure consistency across the organisational approaches to designs. 7. Monitoring the development of new and emerging tools, technologies and products to assess potential value and identifying opportunities to enhance capabilities, products and services within the organisation. 8. Taking a major role to identify and share good practices, participating in relevant communities of practice to drive adoption of design standards, trends and patterns. 9. Working under general direction; planning your own work to achieve agreed objectives, seeking information when unclear, and escalating as appropriate, any issues or conflicting priorities which may impact deadlines. 10. Actively participating and contributing to quality assurance reviews of your work through a variety of approaches such as peer review, learning logs, and engaging in appropriate communities.