The Business Architect will work as a thought-leader within the NCA's Digital Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence, ensuring alignment of modern business capabilities and processes to measurably beneficial solutions within the NCA's Digital Strategy and Vision. The value brought by the Business Architect is significant, as it is a role that will evolve alongside the emergent digital needs of the NCA. As such, the Business Architect will need to be adaptable, knowledgeable, and efficient to successfully carry out the strategy and manage deliverables using modern EA approaches.

Working with the Head of Enterprise Architecture and Data / Solution Architects, the Business Architect is a strategically senior role, responsible for transformation initiatives and oversight of critical deliverables, such as quantified business capabilities, value streams and Patient / User journeys. The roles' aim is to lead the architecture of a process-oriented organisation or re-architecting aspects of existing processes.

The Business Architect will assume a leadership role in two ways. Firstly, the development of holistic, multi-dimensional business architectures to achieve goals, and secondly, the day-to-day leadership, management, guidance and maturation of a team of Business Analysts to ensure traceability between business architecture products and associated business processes / requirements to be delivered as operational solutions.

Main duties of the job

Determine and define strategic level requirements that address organisational, people, processes, information and technology problems, ensuring systems and processes are fit for purpose and ensuring they are robust.

Undertake business architecture design work using best practice tools and techniques to define capabilities and processes, using prototyping (where appropriate) to elaborate requirements and demonstrate the feasibility and potential benefits of applying a particular technology to meet a business need.

Define objective-level requirements for the selection of solutions.

Act as a strategic advocate for the business, ensuring that digital provision meets the strategic objectives of the organisation and satisfies requirements.

Provide expert opinion to IT forums in relation to Digital Demand items and Projects applying expertise to articulate requests, drivers, and potential solutions.

Analyse and articulate complex business and digital problems clearly - identifying the maturity and key objectives of each capability / process and alignment to existing digital capabilities.

Work with Senior stakeholders across the organisation to understand current state problems and future strategies, goals and objectives.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care , appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

• IIBA, Business Architecture Guild membership

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent or ability to demonstrate equivalent
• Relevant foundation level business analysis qualification e.g., Agile Business Analysis Foundation or BCS Foundation
• Evidence of continual professional development

Desirable

• Foundation Qualification in Change Management
• Foundation Qualification in Project Management
• ITIL Foundation Qualification

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience working as a Senior Business Analyst or Business Architect, preferably in a Healthcare setting.
• Proven experience of contributing to and developing Business / Enterprise Architecture principles.
• Comprehensive systems thinking and analysis skills gained in an healthcare or similar environment
• Proven IT Business or Enterprise Architecture skills working on multiple or concurrent initiatives
• Leadership / senior experience of managing complex organisational change and the transformation of business processes.

Desirable

• Experienced manager, leader coach, and mentor in the business analysis field
• Good knowledge of patient management systems, NHS working practice and National NHS developments
• Knowledge or process automation tools, RPA, process mining and hyper-automation approaches.

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Salford Royal

Stott Lane

Salford

M6 8HD

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