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Overview
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About The Organisation
National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services.
The Post
To meet the increasing demand from internal NSS customers, NHS Boards, Scottish Government, and the wider Public Sector in Scotland, NSS Digital & Security are recruiting two Solutions Architects. The core purpose of the Digital & Security organisation is the provision of world class digital and security expertise, solutions, and services to our customers. A critical role in ensuring integrated business technology strategy and delivery of effective solutions and services is the Solutions Architect position. The post holder will be responsible for providing 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 the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland.
You Will Be Responsible For
* Leading and undertaking solutions architecture and design activities as part of significant and complex customer projects and other initiatives
* Working as part of multi-disciplinary project delivery teams to ensure that technology solutions are efficient, robust, secure, and aligned with agreed outcomes and roadmaps
* Leading and supporting the development of future state architecture and providing digital and technology strategic 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 Architects, Solutions Architects, Digital Business Analysts, Consultants and other Digital & Security teams (Clinical, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering & Operations, and Information Security & Governance), ensuring a consistent, robust and professional approach to architecture and design.
The Candidate
You should be educated to degree level or have equivalent, demonstrable experience. Knowledge and experience of solutions architecture and design within significant and complex projects is required. In addition, you should be delivery minded, curious and tenacious to drive new ways of working and technology implementation to achieve step changes in delivery capability. The ability to lead and manage a team is required.
Location and Working Pattern
The posts can be based at either Gyle Square in Edinburgh or Delta House, Glasgow. We are currently working in a hybrid model, which is currently under review, and we would welcome a discussion from candidates not based near the above locations to discuss the logistics of this. Monday Friday, 37 hours per week. It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.
Benefits
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.
Inclusion
is a national board and, as an anchor institution, it is our ambition to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone feels welcome. We recognise that flexible working creates an inclusive workplace where employees can thrive and feel confident about their ability to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. This is supported through Once for Scotland flexible working policies. NSS has made a long-term commitment to staff health and well-being and offers many learning and development opportunities to support and improve our approaches to diversity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. There are a number of equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are also an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, it is the aim of NSS to offer a fully accessible and inclusive recruitment service that supports applicants on their candidate journey. If you are interested in any reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruitment Team on.
Further Information
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Justin Gilliland, Head of Service via email. Closing date for completed applications is Thursday 23rd October 2025.
Further information on NSS is available from: https://www.nss.nhs.scot/
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
Qualifications & Employment Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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