TEL Education Platforms Senior Technical Architect

at  NHS England

The Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TEL) delivers innovative programmes and services that facilitate the effective use of learning technologies and simulation-based education. This supports the delivery of NHS England’s objectives, as well as those of other stakeholders in the health and care sectors, both regionally and nationally.
The team plays a key role in shaping policy related to educational delivery, workforce transformation, learning and development, and digital technology advancement. It provides thought leadership, guidance, and delivers digital services, programmes, and projects either independently or in collaboration with other initiatives.
We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect to join our Platforms workstream. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development and optimisation of our digital learning platforms within our Azure Cloud infrastructure. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring our platforms are robust, scalable, and secure, supporting a wide range of educational initiatives.
The TEL Education Platforms Senior Technical Architect (STA) will:
Work at a system level and ensure effective technical architecture and solutions advice and support is provided to, developing, ongoing and future development, and to ensure alignment with the wider enterprise.
Working with the Service Lead, they will use their strong negotiation and leadership skills to determine current and future states for the organisation and ensure others, many of whom will not be line managed by the post holder, are signed up to this shared enterprise-wide technical vision.
Work to develop an acceptable organisational approach and transition plan for the operational delivery of technical architecture components and wider application and software development activities within TEL and linked where required across NHSE.
Work to align the organisation to good and best practice, including the Government Digital Service frameworks (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard) and Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) standards.
Be responsible if required for the budget and resources related to several services across TEL.
Be required to design, deliver, maintain and support the technical environment upon which TEL’s platforms rely to deliver its programme of work. By ensuring the architecture supports a resilient and performant service delivery platform, this role protects the programme’s ongoing delivery.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
The STA will work across NHS England and the wider operating landscape, to develop, support and continuously improve the technical architecture models and their lower-level components.
The role reports to the Deputy Director of TEL within NHSE to ensure coordination and alignment of business requirements and transformation, technologies, applications and data perspectives with the relevant policies, strategies, governance and technology that have been chosen to support a coherent and sustainable approach to managing information and technology.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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