Lead Technical Architect; Infrastructure & Cloud

Lead Technical Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud)

Apply for the Lead Technical Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud) role at Digital Health and Care Wales
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This fixed‑term/secondment position is open until 31 March 2027. Applicants must obtain permission from their current line manager before applying.

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) plays a key role in designing, procuring, building, and operating Health and Social Care services for NHS Wales. The Infrastructure Design team is responsible for technical design and assurance through a project’s lifecycle, acting as experts in various technologies, supporting DHCW and NHS organisations, and overseeing on‑premise services while facilitating a transition to a cloud‑first strategy.

• Be part of a dynamic team using digital technology to transform health and care in NHS Wales.
• Have prospects to further develop skills in an environment where work positively impacts healthcare.
• Receive commitment to personal and professional development with access to a wide range of learning.
• Speak English and/or Welsh.
• Engage with colleagues throughout NHS Wales, performing unbiased research and designing innovative technologies.
• Author and critique a range of documentation, including high‑level/low‑level designs, build scripts, options papers, feasibility studies, technical strategies, installation and operational qualification testing.
• Act as a subject matter expert on at least one area of technology.
• Conduct and contribute (including presenting) on technical discussions based on, but not limited to:
  • Hybrid and multi‑cloud architectures.
  • Cloud‑hosted collaboration solutions.
  • Compute and storage infrastructure technologies to an enterprise datacenter level.
  • Enterprise software‑defined networking, LAN, WAN and firewall (ACLs, VPN).
  • Microsoft‑based software technologies in complex enterprise environments.
  • Enterprise network security technologies.
  • Enterprise high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
• Communicate with various stakeholders at all levels, including service owners, requestors and suppliers.
• Provide technical expertise on procurements, assisting in the development of specifications and scoring.
• Provide assurance of technical documents for both peers and external supplier documents.

Digital Health and Care Wales is part of the NHS Wales family and drives innovation through technology and data, supporting frontline staff with modern systems and empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health via digital NHS Wales services.

Employee benefits include flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, and opportunities for career development.

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