Tenure: Fixed term to 31/03/2025

Start Date: ASAP (August 2024)

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.

DHCW offers opportunities for career growth and professional development. We will work with you and help you develop your career. We offer opportunities to pursue further academic qualifications, up to PhD level. 

Our benefits include:

• Automatic membership of the NHS pension scheme (at 23.7% employer contribution)
• 28 days paid leave plus bank holidays.
• Blue Light Card membership – access to NHS discounts including high street, gyms, restaurants, insurance, cars, holidays etc.
• Flexible working, including options to work from home.
• Employee Assistance Programme – confidential information and counselling support service available 24/7.
• Cycle 2 Work scheme.
• Car lease and home electronics salary sacrifice scheme.

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 organizations. Operating a cloud-first strategy, architects are required to oversee on-premise services and facilitate the transition to cloud services. 

The main duties of the job will include:

• Through engagement with colleagues throughout NHS Wales, perform unbiased research and design of innovative technologies for use in NHS Wales 
• Author and critique a range document that could include high level / low-level designs, build scripts / sheets, options papers, feasibility studies, technical strategies, installation and operational qualification testing. 
• Function as a subject matter expert on at least one area of technology 
• Conduct and contribute (including presenting) on technical discussions based around, but not limited to, knowledge of the following: 
  • Hybrid and Multi Cloud architectures 
  • Cloud hosted collaboration solutions 
  • Compute and storage infrastructure technologies to an enterprise datacentre 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 & 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 

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.