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As a vital part of NHS Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland’s mission is to enable and support the delivery of better health and better care, working in partnership. We do this by providing a range of specialised support services that enable NHS Boards to focus their efforts on delivering health improvement and patient care.
The core purpose of the Digital & Security organisation is the provision of world class digital and security expertise, solutions and services to our customers, which include NSS, NHS Boards, Scottish Government and the wider Public Sector in Scotland.
A critical role in ensuring integrated business technology strategy and delivery of effective solutions and services is the Associate Solutions Architect position. This is a supporting role and assists in the provision of technology solutions architecture and design leadership to implement significant national solutions and services across NHS Scotland ensuring that solutions and service aligns to the required business and operational outcomes necessary to support health and care in Scotland.
As an Associate Solutions Architect you will be responsible for assisting, supporting and undertaking solutions architecture and design activities as part of significant and complex customer projects and other initiatives. You will work alongside Solutions Architects and as part of multi-disciplinary teams to assist in ensuring that technology solutions are efficient, robust, secure and aligned with agreed outcomes and roadmaps. In addition, you will assist and support the development of future state architecture, and provide digital and technology advice and guidance to NHS Scotland and other Public Sector customers.
You will be a key player in the development of the Architecture function and, in partnership with Enterprise and Solutions Architects and other Digital & Security teams (Clinical, Transformation, Cloud Engineering & Operations and Information Security & Governance), ensuring a consistent, robust and professional approach to architecture and design.
Applications are invited from individuals who have demonstrable experience of leading or providing a significant supporting role as part of the technology solutions architecture and design activity for significant and complex projects, who are delivery minded and are curious and tenacious to drive new ways of working and technology implementation to achieve step changes in delivery capability.
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Justin Gilliland, Head of Service at Justin.Gilliland2@nhs.scot
Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/
Closing date for completed applications is midnight on Monday 9th May.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders)
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.