Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7456981
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Enterprise Solutions Architect (Band 8a)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
As the Enterprise Solution Architect for the Securing the Future (StF) programme at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the digital infrastructure of our New Hospital Build. This strategic position is responsible for defining and maintaining the Trust’s Enterprise Architecture Blueprint, ensuring alignment with national NHS digital strategies, interoperability standards, and the Intelligent Hospital Capabilities (IHCs).
You will lead the design and integration of digital solutions across clinical, operational, and building management systems—including BMS, EMS, IoT, security, fire, and lighting—ensuring seamless data exchange and supporting the “golden thread” of information across the Trust ecosystem. Your work will directly contribute to safer, smarter, and more efficient healthcare delivery.
Collaboration is key: you’ll work closely with the Digital Lead, Transformation Team, Estates, IT, and clinical stakeholders to ensure that solutions meet operational and clinical needs. You’ll facilitate workshops, validate designs, and support the development of technical specifications and digital implementation roadmaps. The incumbent will be working closely with the Digital Senior Business Analyst and Digital Project Manager.
This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of healthcare infrastructure, contributing to a once-in-a-generation investment in digital transformation and sustainable hospital design.
Main duties of the job
Be an inspirational leader and an expert in your field, working autonomously on high profile systems and solutions.
Manage the enterprise architecture function within the organisation, taking a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.
Successfully lead and manage a geographically dispersed team, both from within the NHS, and wider industry working on multiple architecture projects or programmes.
Define and connect strategies or visions across the organisation or ICS, enabling the implementation of shared strategies or visions
Communicate persuasively and effectively, building relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple business or technical areas in the organisation and its partners.
Set the strategy, and deliver technologies to enable the safe, secure and successful integration of systems across the hospital throughout the construction and operation of the building, incorporating clinical, construction and estates systems, a first for the NHS.
Be skilled in project risk management and be proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the organisation and its partners.
Work with technology partners to inform their roadmaps.
Demonstrate an understanding of strategic issues, and be conversant with the organisation's IT strategy, policies and standards
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Master’s degree in an associated professional field (or equivalent qualification / experience).
- • Further evidence of relevant higher-level education and/or training
- • Knowledge gained though practical experience of working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience of successfully managing an architecture function within a large complex organisation, leading a team of specialists to work on multiple architecture projects or programmes
- • Expert in the IT environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners), in particular own organisation's technical platforms and those that interface to them through the specialism, including those in closely related organisations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gordon Guy
- Job title
- Digital Lead – Securing the Future
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 01535
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