Architecture Portfolio Lead
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £64,156.00 to £71,148.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64156.00 - £71148.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC1V 2PD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9273-26-0042 |
Summary
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES FOR THIS ROLE Portfolio intake, triage and prioritisation Run the EA intake process: capture new demand, triage requests, and allocate work to appropriate practitioners (solution, technical and enterprise architects). Provide advice and guidance to requesters to ensure submissions are clear, complete and prioritised appropriately. Maintain a transparent pipeline and publish status so service users understand where they are in the queue. Collaborate with delivery teams, including the local Project Management Office, to ensure that the roadmaps are fully aligned. Architecture Review Board (ARB) governance Plan and administer the Architecture Review Board: manage submissions, set agendas, coordinate attendance, circulate papers, capture decisions and actions, and maintain the artefact library.Ensure timely architectural reviews for all initiatives and escalate risks or blockers early. Actively partner with delivery teams to ensure that they are working with architecture early and are booked in good time. Keep in close contact with teams to ensure that needs are identified early that architectural governance supports and enables, rather than blocks, progress. Track adherence to architecture principles, standards and patterns and support technical assurance alongside architects and vendors.Manage any waivers or exceptions to the standards, track closely, and report on impact to leadership as required. Resource management, capacity forecasting, and utilisation tracking Maintain the EA resource profile: forecast practitioner availability, assignments and utilisation; proactively smooth demand; and ensure highpriority work is resourced. Publish forward schedules and keep diaries aligned to review cycles, workshops and supporting activities. Does not professionally manage the team but has day-to-day responsibility for their allocation and priorities, and is expected to use their judgement and experience to resolve most first-level process and priority calls. Procurement, supplier and contract coordination Coordinate managed service and consultancy engagements: draft/verify SoWs against scope and outcomes, align resourcing, track deliverables, and maintain an accurate cost and activity forecast in collaboration with Procurement and Finance. Support any procurement activities that the department is contributing to, including ensuring that baseline architectural requirements are included and all materials have a specialist review before approval. Documentation, tooling and ways of working Keep the architecture model and portfolio documentation up to date (for example, repository records, catalogues, standards, decisions). Maintain team boards so tasks have accurate status, impediments are unblocked, and time spent is captured. Proactively review documentation to identify gaps and prompt practitioners to complete or improve artefacts. Financial tracking and reporting Track budget requests, spending forecasts and actuals for EArelated engagements; provide regular reports and highlight variances. Stakeholder engagement and strategic planning Engage with programme and project managers inside and outside the directorate to maintain an accurate demand forecast into EA. Support directorate business planning on behalf of the Enterprise Architect: organise engagement sessions, capture demand, synthesise inputs, and contribute to highlevel designs, cost estimates and bills of materials. Contribute to policy and operating procedure updates across the EA process, aligned to Trust governance and DDaT good practice. Ownership and initiative Take ownership of actions to completion, ensuring decisions, risks, issues and benefits are captured and tracked; proactively chase followups and unblock progress. Ensure that the team continually improves their processes and ways of working.