Enterprise Architect

Job Title                     Enterprise Architect

Function:                   Strategy & Change

Location:                    Nottingham/Hybrid

Contract type:           Permanent

Salary:                        £79,919 with potential to rise to £93,787 over 3 years

Closing Date:            Thursday 29^th May 2025

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Enterprise Architect to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first and to deliver against our strategic objectives.

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Enterprise Architect who will be responsible for focusing on business issues and driving strategic improvements across our organisation. You will play a pivotal role in aligning our organisational strategies with business objectives. Your primary focus will be on identifying and addressing business challenges, optimising processes, and ensuring that our organisation is efficient, resilient, and adaptable to changing demands.  The Enterprise Architect will define and lead the architecture at an enterprise level and will be responsible for forming a joined-up view on the overarching enterprise architecture roadmap. They will work closely with the Domain Architects

Every day you will …

• Be responsible for the effective delivery of your projects, working closely with the business owner. You will work with senior leaders and functional teams to ensure that the project objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, principals and roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Work in collaboration with the service providers across NHS Supply Chain to ensure effective management and execution of your projects to deliver against elements of NHS Supply Chain’s strategic objectives.
• Lead and manage enterprise-wide projects with budgets of up to £1m using agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships for projects and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
• Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary: 

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts. 

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care. 

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• A minimum of five years’ experience working as an Enterprise architect within a complex organisation, ideally within a healthcare setting.
• Matrix management experience of project delivery teams
• A strong understanding of business strategy, operating models and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• A deep understanding of project management methodologies (Waterfall/Agile) and change management principles
• Experience in project cost management across multiple delivery partners
• Relevant PPM qualification (e.g. APM, Prince 2) or equivalent level of experience
• Prior experience in managing large scale change projects at all stages from business analysis and requirement gathering through to execution and post go live evaluation
• Experience of managing third party vendors
• Relevant business change qualification (e.g. Prosci, ADKAR) or equivalent level of experience (Desirable)

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at [email protected] 

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.