Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Function: Strategy, Change and In Hospital Services

Location: Hybrid – with 2-3 days a week in our Nottingham, Alfreton, Wakefield, Daresbury or Sheffield offices

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £77,701 with the potential to rise to £91,413 over 3 years

Closing Date: Friday 3^rd July, 2026.

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for an 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.

This role is helping NHS Supply Chain to achieve its ambitions. Having recently reshaped our 10-year Strategy and being in the middle of a multi-year operating model change, the Enterprise Architect will have a key role to play in helping the organisation bridge the gap between strategy and execution. This is a role for a skilled Enterprise Architect with a passion for the business side of change to influence the NHS of tomorrow.

Every day you will …

• Enable strategic decision-making: Provide enterprise-wide insight into transformation and BAU activities, clarifying implications, trade-offs, and alignment with strategic goals to support confident senior leadership decisions.
• Drive enterprise coherence: Identify and challenge misalignment, duplication, and conflicting priorities across initiatives, making trade-offs explicit and ensuring transformation efforts are consistent and mutually reinforcing.
• Assess service enablement and delivery alignment: Evaluate whether transformation outputs, capabilities, and sequencing effectively support the target service proposition, highlighting gaps, risks, and dependencies.
• Own and maintain the enterprise roadmap: Develop and manage a single, integrated roadmap linking strategy to delivery, outlining capability maturity, key features, and customer outcomes to guide prioritisation and sequencing.
• Build stakeholder alignment and confidence: Engage senior leaders and delivery teams to socialise strategy, roadmap, and key trade-offs, fostering shared understanding, buy-in, and timely, informed decision-making.
• Creating Architectural Alignment: Connect architectural communities across the organisation, ensuring consistent inputs to and outputs from the enterprise roadmap, underpinned by clear governance and a shared enterprise position.

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:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• 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.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Demonstrates strong strategic thinking, with the ability to translate organisational strategy into clear, prioritised and deliverable change, supporting enterprise‑wide decision‑making and alignment with NHS Supply Chain’s long‑term objectives.
• Builds effective relationships and influences at senior level, engaging stakeholders across strategy, change, architecture and delivery teams to create shared understanding, confidence and buy‑in.
• Applies enterprise and systems thinking across business, data and technology domains to identify misalignment, duplication and dependencies, ensuring coherent and joined‑up transformation activity.
• Uses analytical and critical thinking skills to assess service enablement, risks and trade‑offs, providing clear, evidence‑based insight to inform prioritisation and sequencing decisions.
• Works collaboratively in complex and evolving environments, contributing to architectural governance and maintaining an integrated enterprise roadmap that links strategy to delivery and customer outcomes.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

To keep our recruitment process efficient, we may close the advert early if application numbers are high. If you’re interested, we recommend applying promptly.

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