Technical Architect, NHSD, up to £600/day

North Yorkshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

NHS Digital are seeking a Technical Architect to join their team in Leeds. There will be some remote working until restrictions ease.

Team: Department for Health and Social Care|NHS Digital|Strategy, Policy and Governance Directorate|SPandG - Enterprise Architecture

Initial contracts will run until and offer a rate up to £600/day.

IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Inside IR35 legislation. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: at 12:00

This role requires Active SC (Security Check) clearance. Applicants require active SC clearance or the willingness to go through clearance before starting on site. Candidates with current clearance will be preferred.

About this Role

PODAC' (Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry, Ambulance and Community) is a new programme that will contribute to the NHSx?mission to use digital technology to improve NHS productivity. Immediate work is required to understand existing capability and user needs within PODAC settings and to build a benefits case to support the digital transformation of these settings.

Although the programme builds on previous successes, there is a requirement to refresh the supporting benefits case. An experienced Technical Architect is required to work at pace within the Digital PODAC Programme. This role will ensure that there is an understanding of current technical capabilities and architecture and that future plans are developed in line with overarching architecture strategy and standards, and lead on gaining the necessary approvals as required.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

  • Knowledge of relevant technical specialisms' (see below) and experience in providing advice regarding their application.
  • Skills in leading the development of system and solution architectures within project and programme environments.
  • Skills in using appropriate tools (see below) to produce detailed component specifications and in translating these into detailed designs.
  • Skills in applying system architecture techniques within business change programmes, preparing technical plans, and cooperating with business assurance and project staff to ensure that deployed solutions meet defined critical success factors.
  • Skills in identifying and documenting functional and non-functional requirements, challenging ambiguity, and offering alternatives that deliver similar capabilities with reduced cost, risk, or timescales.
  • Skills in taking responsibility for cross-architectural dependencies and the assurance of supplier technical documentation and solutions in conjunction with strategic objectives, standards, and the enterprise architecture.
  • Skills in working with suppliers, including selecting suppliers, developing contracts, leading technical reviews, and negotiating over issues.
  • Skills in liaising with stakeholders and communicating technical concepts clearly and accurately.
  • Skills in producing high quality written information which clearly sets out solution architecture designs, key issues, options, and actions, and presents facts and information in a way that persuades and influences others to accept key conclusions.
  • Educated to master's degree level or with equivalent relevant qualifications or industry experience.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

  • Knowledge of core NHS and healthcare technologies.
  • Knowledge of messaging, directory, and interoperability standards.
  • Knowledge of development techniques, platforms, environments, and languages.
  • Key Tasks and Deliverables
  • Define and ratify a technical specification (a FHIR profile to support post-event messaging relating to minor illness referrals)
  • Support system suppliers with technical queries relating to developments, including the development of minor illness referral messages.
  • Develop requirements and solutions for messaging between different systems to support integration (eg though APIs).
  • Contribute to the development of the future technical architecture required to support: information flows between pharmacy and other care settings (eg using FHIR and NHS MESH); the digital transformation of optometry, dentistry, ambulance, and community healthcare settings (eg though utilising existing products and services); and ongoing medicines data collections (eg using NHS MESH and NHS Digital's Data Services Platform and messaging profiles like ITK2 & ITK3)

Candidate Eligibility

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 - General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).


Start date
ASAP
Duration
until 31/03/2022
From
Quast Ltd
Published at
23.07.2021
Project ID:
2169651
Contract type
Freelance
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