Enterprise Architect | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Enterprise Architect provides senior specialist leadership, enterprise design authority and architectural governance across digital, data and technology domains within the Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospitals Collaborative.

The postholder is responsible for developing, maintaining and assuring the Collaborative’s Enterprise Architecture framework, ensuring that digital and technology investments align with organisational strategy, ICS priorities and national NHS standards.

The role ensures that applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud architectures form a coherent, sustainable and standards-based enterprise landscape that supports safe and effective patient care, operational efficiency and productivity, regulatory compliance and cyber resilience, financial sustainability and progressive digital maturity.

The role exercises significant professional autonomy within agreed corporate and digital strategy frameworks and provides authoritative specialist advice to senior digital leaders, programme boards and executive committees.

The postholder does not hold executive or budgetary ownership of the overall digital portfolio but provides architectural assurance and specialist judgement to inform senior decision-making.

Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture strategy and associated architectural principles in alignment with corporate and digital strategies set by executive leadership.

Translate organisational objectives into architectural roadmaps across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud domains.

Support cross-Trust architectural convergence and standardisation initiatives.

Act as senior design authority for enterprise-level architectural alignment.

Review and ensure high-value or high-risk solution designs comply with enterprise standards.

Chair or support Architecture Review Boards within agreed governance frameworks.

Provide architectural assurance and technical due diligence for multi-million-pound digital investment proposals.

Present complex architectural options, trade-offs and risk exposure to Executive Directors, Digital Governance Committees and Programme Boards.

Translate highly technical enterprise architecture concepts into accessible language for non-technical audiences.

Provide professional leadership to Solution Architects and Domain Architects.

Ensure enterprise architecture is embedded within programme lifecycle governance.

Provide architectural oversight during major programme milestones.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of

NHS benefits/discounts and in addition

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
• Develop and maintain the Enterprise Architecture strategy and associated architectural principles in alignment with corporate and digital strategies set by executive leadership.
• Translate organisational objectives into architectural roadmaps across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, security and cloud domains.
• Support cross-Trust architectural convergence and standardisation initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, technical debt and complexity across systems.
• Contribute specialist architectural expertise to long-term digital planning and transformation programmes.

Act as senior design authority for enterprise-level architectural alignment.

• Review and ensure high-value or high-risk solution designs comply with enterprise standards.
• Chair or support Architecture Review Boards within agreed governance frameworks.
• Maintain enterprise architecture artefacts, including current state models, target state architectures and transition roadmaps.
• Ensure compliance with NHS interoperability standards, the NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit, the UK GDPR, Clinical Safety Standards, and National Cyber Security Centre guidance.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

This advert closes on Sunday 2 Aug 2026