Healthcare Enterprise and Solution Architect Lead, Ref 023

Role Type

Enterprise Architect / Lead, Solutions Architect / Lead

Skills / Experience

Healthcare Architecture & Strategy, Data & Integration, AI/Data Science, Cloud, DMBS, Software Development, Healthcare Interoperability, Specialist Clinical Applications

Availability

Immediate

Contract Preference

Contract – part time, full time or fractional. Would also consider FTC

Salary / Rate Expectation

Negotiable

Profile

25 years in healthcare enterprise architecture across digital, data & technology – both NHS and private health

A strong delivery focus and experience in building and leading technology teams and in leading healthcare digital & data strategy and architecture. Passionate about making information follow the patient wherever they are cared for, putting the right tools in the hands of health & care staff and using data to improve lives and services. Specialising in enterprise and national scale data, integration and interoperability in health & care.

Knowledge & Skills

Architecture & Strategy:

Enterprise, business, solution & technology architecture
Strategy & roadmap development
Leading architecture teams
Architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF, Zachman

Data & Integration:

Data strategy & leading data & integration teams
Data & data platform architecture
Data integration including ETL/ELT
Building APIs, integration platforms & event/messaging hubs

AI & Data Science:

Completed masters level (L7) course in AI and data science
Blogged about Large Language Models (LLMs)

DBMS:

Extensive experience of SQL and NoSQL platforms e.g. SQL Server, Postgress, MySQL, Solr, Intersystems IRIS/Caché

Software Development:

Full SDLC experience & leading software development teams
Polyglot developer e.g. Python, Java, .NET , Caché/MUMPS

Healthcare Interoperability:

Expert in healthcare interoperability and data standards including FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, OMOP, SNOMED CT, DM+D, ICD10 etc

Clinical Applications:

Electronic Patient/Health Records (EPR/EHR)
Specialist apps e.g. LIMS, PACS/RIS, Cardiology, Endoscopy, Document Management
Business apps including CRM (e.g. Salesforce), ERP (e.g. Workday), ITSM (e.g. ServiceNow)

Experience

May 2021 – Aug 2024 NHS – Assistant Director – Digital Architecture

Leading a team of solution and enterprise architects (20 WTE) to define a national digital architecture, including defining strategies, business cases, architecture roadmaps and solution designs and establishing architecture governance and design assurance through the Technical Design Authority

Sept 2019 – May 20221 Private Healthcare – Head of Data, Integration & Insights Platform

Building and leading the organisation’s Data, Integration & Insights platform, with five direct reports, a permanent headcount of seventeen and an annual budget of ~£3m.

June 2017 – Sept 2019 Private Healthcare – Enterprise Architect, Health & Interoperability

Defining the health platform and interoperability strategy as a member of the Enterprise Architecture

May 2016 – June 2017 Private Healthcare – Clinical Solutions Architect

Lead architect and leadership team member for the flagship Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme, including leading the Integration Team and all aspects of applications integration.

Sept 2018 – May 2016 NHS – Lead Applications Architect

Specification, design and prototyping of national architecture, national applications and applications integration. Technical lead for national projects and procurements. Working together with clinicians, private sector partners, contractors and NHS IT teams to provide national IT solutions.

Nov 1998 – Jul 2007 NHS – Software Development Manager, Senior Systems Analyst, Analyst Programmer

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