Enterprise Architect
Job Posted: 13 August 2025
Job Updated: 13 August 2025
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Job Title Enterprise Architect
Function: Strategy & Change
Location: Nottingham/Hybrid
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £81,552 with potential to rise to £95,944 over 3 years
Closing Date: Wednesday 27th August 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 …
1. 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.
2. Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, principals and roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
3. 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.
4. Lead and manage enterprise-wide projects with budgets of up to £1m using agile and waterfall methodologies.
5. 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.
6. 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:
7. Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
8. We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
9. 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
10. We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
11. A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
12. Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
13. 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.
14. 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
15. Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.