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Digital Health and Care Wales

About

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is an expert national body and part of NHS Wales. We work in partnership with NHS Wales colleagues and other key stakeholders to provide national digital and data services which support the delivery of health and social care in Wales. Modern health and care services depend on good digital tools, data and information. DHCW runs or works with more than 100 services and delivers major national digital transformation programmes to support this. In addition, DHCW provides expert advice in relation to cyber security and information governance. We give frontline staff the digital tools which help them provide safer and more efficient care. We are also giving patients and the public digital tools to better manage their own health and wellbeing, empowering people to live healthier lives. We put people at the heart of what we do, working to the highest standards to deliver quality and make digital a force for good in health and care.

Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.

Contact

Address: Ty Glan Yr Afon; 21 Cowbridge Road East; Canton; Cardiff; CF11 9AD
Contact Number: 029 2050 0500

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Ref: 025-AC071-0425 Vacancy ID: 7120302

Principal Solution Architect - Cloud Infrastructure

Closed for applications on: 17-Apr-2025 00:02

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 17-Apr-2025 00:02

Location

Site: Hybrid working
Town: Location to be confirmed at interview
Postcode: CF11 9AD
Major / Minor Region: Cardiff

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Fixed term: 24 months (2 years FTC due to project length)

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £75,405 - £86,885 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8c)

Specialty

Main area: IT

Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.

The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will:

• Oversee the design and development of complex architectural solutions, ensuring technical integrity, consistency, scalability, performance and adherence to standards.

• Develop and maintain architectural cloud design roadmaps, optimise both cost value and performance efficiency.

• Develop and communicate cloud architecture principles and standards across the organisation.

• Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies, to deliver cloud-based health solutions.

• Work with security, compliance and operational teams to meet regulatory requirements.

• Drive innovation and explore emerging technologies, to seek opportunities for digital transformation

• Champion best-practice architectural principles and patterns, ensuring our solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, maintainable, and interoperable. Lead governance, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture design.

• Define and lead the long-term architectural vision, strategy, and objectives.

• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, maintainable, and interoperable.

• Participate in an on-call 24x7 management rota.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

For further information regarding Digital Health and Care Wales please see our website: https://dhcw.nhs.wales/

Applicant requirements

Welsh language skills are desirable

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

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.
Evidence of continuous professional development.

Desirable criteria

FEDIP Leading Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Advanced Professional qualification.
Theoretical and specialist knowledge gained via relevant certification such as: o TOGAF Certification o AWS, GCP or Azure Certification
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the NHS, or other healthcare systems and services, including the political, strategic, and operational environments in which they operate.

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.
Proficient in the analytical comparison of IT products against specified criteria (including costs) to determine the solution that best meets the business need.
Proficient in software which forms part of the operating platform infrastructure.