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Head of Digital Architecture

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

London, SE1 8SD £88,250 – £100,355 a year Permanent Posted 27 August 2026 Apply by 13 September 2026

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Role description

Job summary

The London Ambulance Service (LAS) depends on highly available, reliable, sustainable, cost-effective digital services to support the delivery of urgent and emergency care. To ensure that digital & data services are appropriately evaluated and designed to support LAS in providing an excellent digital experience for our staff and outstanding care for our patients.

Working within the Digital & Data Directorate as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). The Head of Architecture is the principal expert specialist and owner of the Digital Architecture Department. Accountable for ensuring that the technology design and roadmaps for digital and data services and standards developed across the Trust, are mapped to and enable the Trust strategy, business needs and long-term plan. Along with ownership of definition and development of Digital Architectural delivery capability resources, processes, standards and tools.

The role is critical to the Trust to ensure digital alignment with Trust strategic goals, standardisation of products and services, governance and compliance with architecture processes and principles.

Please note: We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Main duties of the job

To be the principal specialist and owner of the Digital Architecture Department, accountable for:

o Providing appropriate leadership and governance of Digital Architecture services, policies, mandates, processes, procedures and reports and the operation of the Architecture Review Board.

o Identifying the Trust's current business and technology architectures and developing joined up target architectures and long-term technology roadmaps for all business areas of the Trust to achieve the digital transformation required to realise the Trust's future vision.

o The design of information, software and infrastructure systems and services across all LAS functions using standardised principles so that they support the roadmaps and are appropriately available, resilient and secure.

o Collating and providing structured design and architectural information to help manage and change the digital environment and information the Trust uses.

o Ensure business requirements are reviewed, interpreted and respond to, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and future digital capabilities.

o The improvement and monitoring of Architecture services against a recognised Architecture Maturity Model and Standards.

o Providing architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to staff and managers in and outside Digital & Data.

About us

Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:

Our care- delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
Our organisation- being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
Our London- using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.

To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.

Date posted

27 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£88,250 to £100,355 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

308-CORP-3309

Job locations

Trust HQ

Waterloo Road

London

SE1 8SD

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications, Accreditations, Education

Essential

Educated to Master's degree level in IT related subject or equivalent extensive senior technical management experience within an IT department
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation level qualified
TOGAF: Foundation 9.2 or 10

Experience

Essential

Extensive specialist experience of technology design and roadmaps
Demonstrable recent and relevant Senior Management level experience within a large organisation in a Senior Enterprise or Technical Architect role.

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of frameworks and standards for solution architecture such as IEEE 1016-2009
Creating a clear vision and supporting the translation of business intelligence into operational plans
Able to work across professional and organisational boundaries with highly developed negotiation and influencing skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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