Principal Enterprise Architect (OneEPR)
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 December 2025 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO6 3LY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C8192-25-0569 |
Summary
NHS Band 8b: Salary £64,455 - £74,896. Contract: Fixed Term 2 years Full Time: 37.5 hours per week Closing date for applications: 14th December 2025. The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.For internal applicants the existing primary location will remain unchanged.The staff mobility local agreement will apply. Key Responsibilities: The Principal Enterprise Architect reports to the Head of Technical Delivery and is a key member of the IT Department; providing technical leadership and standards in critical areas of digital technology, service resilience and solution provision ensuring the delivering of highly performing IT service that can underpin a digitally mature hospital. The role includes leadership and management responsibility when deputising for the Head of Technical Delivery, and is required to maintain relationships and attend meetings within the department, the Trust and Integrated Care Systems (ICS) groups. The role is also responsible in supporting the Head of Technical Delivery to ensure the Trusts Digital Infrastructure Strategy is implemented and Departmental objectives & targets achieved, including people, performance and financial objectives. The Principal Enterprise Architect is expected to provide technical leadership at the Department level, as well as departmental IT groups such as Radiology and SWASH, working with our teams subject matter experts, exhibiting confidence, and supporting development of the Trusts highly complex digital services. The role will also be required to provide guidance and sign-off with governance, and support stakeholders with navigating requirements into the IT department. The Principal Enterprise Architect role is a hands-on operational role pivotal in delivering fit for purpose and safe digital services to the Trust. The role is key to maintaining business-as-usual services and identifying and delivering new and more efficient models of service delivery. Whilst also supporting the Head of Technical Delivery in strategically determining the future state architecture required to underpin the increasing hospital digital maturity and increasing expectations on technology performance and capability. To enable them to execute these responsibilities the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible technical leadership. This will span four key areas; BAU Technical Implementation, Capacity & Performance, Tactical Solution Design and Strategic Development & Delivery. All technical leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and as the deputy to the Head of Technical Delivery, when necessary, to also take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility, in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust. The Head of Technical Delivery is responsible for ensuring that IT networks, datacentre, modern workspace & cloud services are designed and implemented to support the delivery of safe, effective and efficient digital systems and services, backed up with effective supporting services to support users of the Trusts IT network, systems and resources. The Principal Architect will be expected to provide input to decision making and have autonomy to ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward improvements in the operational effectiveness of the IT Department. For full details of this role, please refer to the enclosed Job Description before making your application.